(n.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling.
(v. t.) To loiter; to sneak.
Example Sentences:
(1) In summary, these findings indicate that a major GnRH molecule in hake pituitary gland is Trp7, Leu8-GnRH, while tilapia brain contains both Trp7, Leu8-GnRH and Gln8-GnRH.
(2) The strongest reaction has been observed in post-spawning hake.
(3) Basque specials include grilled kokotxas (gelatinous, subtly flavoured hake glands, an acquired taste) in green sauce, silky red piquillo pepper stuffed with oxtail, grilled scallop and spherical steak croquetas .
(4) Studied were batches of frozen ocean mackerel (Scomber scombrus L.) and silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis, Mitchill) during storage in a central base and in shops.
(5) We studied the allergenic significance of the fish species considered most representative because of their greater consumption in our environment (flatfishes: Pleuronectiformes such as sole, whiff, and witch; Gadiformes such as hake; and Scombriformes such as albacore) or because of the results of previous studies of Gadiformes such as cod.
(6) A total of 2164 common hake Merluccius hubbsi captured in the Argentine-Uruguayan Common Fishing Zone was examined for parasitic copepods.
(7) Phosphatidylinositol from hake spinal cord and phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserine from hake brain contain the greatest percentages of eicosa-5,8,11,14,17-pentaenoic (20:5) and docosa-4,7,10,13,16,19-hexaenoic (22:6), respectively.
(8) The effect was studied of preliminary and proper processing (sterilization) on histamine content in 4 types of canned fish: mackerel in sauce, mackerel in tomato sauce, hake fillets in oil, and Szczecin fish with paprika.
(9) Heat-treated saline extracts of hake (Urophycis tenuis) and coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) pituitary glands also had PTH-like immunoreactivity in radioimmunoassays for C-terminal and N-terminal PTH, in which serial dilutions of the extracts were parallel to the respective standards.
(10) So do unjustly neglected fish such as hake, misunderstood vegetables such as aubergines and grouse, which will, from tomorrow, start to appear roasted on tables around Britain.
(11) However, in a formaldehyde-forming species such as hake, in the presence of neutral and oxidized lipids at the end of the storage period, the values of shear resistances may be lower than in the absence of these lipids, probably owing to formation of less formaldehyde in these cases.
(12) This enzyme system is very similar to that found in other fish such as red hake, winter flounder and herring.
(13) Staff in jeans and denim shirts talk through the menu: tataki de ciervo (venison); a tabla del mar with hake roe, semi-cured mackerel and tuna ( €9 or €14); a legendarily good arroz con setas y pato (rice with mushroom and duck, €13), octopus and vegetables cooked in a wok with coconut curry sauce, among many other dishes.
(14) In hake brain, content and concentration of GnRH was higher in the pituitary gland than in the hypothalamic lobes or extrahypothalamic brain.
(15) The influence of pH, temperature and Ca2+-release on the phenylalanyl and tyrosyl fluorescene of muscular parvalbumins from white muscles of hake and carp has been investigated.
(16) If the Root effect persists up to about 100 atm, as seems to be the case blue hake, maximum po2 is more than 200 atm.
(17) When dialyzed extracts from hake (Merluccius hubbsi) skeletal muscle were chromatographed in DEAE-Sephacel, an alkaline protease (37 degrees C, pH 8.5) and a trypsin inhibitor were isolated.
(18) C. palpifer showed an increase in both prevalence and intensity in relation to the host size; infestation with N. insidiosa f. lageniformis decreased with increasing length of hake.
(19) From the results observed, which have been confirmed by various procedures and techniques, we conclude that hake is the fish with the capability to induce the strongest IgE response, followed by whiff; the witch seems to be the least allergenic of all flatfishes.
(20) Yarrowia (Candida) lipolytica was the predominant organism isolated from the surface film of growth derived from ground hake gurry to which only phosphoric acid was added to give a pH of 4.0.
Loiter
Definition:
(v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
(v. i.) To wander as an idle vagrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither in nor out of the house, visible but not seen, you could lurk here for an hour undisturbed, you could loiter for a day.
(2) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(3) Grafitti cakes his entrance hall, there is no heating, the lift has been broken for months and unemployed youths loiter with nothing to do.
(4) She wouldn't be found haunting the scene of the crime, as it were; loitering in the kitchen, in the maternity ward, at the school gate.
(5) As he puts it in his book Cities Under Siege: "The possibility of deploying swarms of armed and unarmed robots to loiter persistently across regions of the world deemed trouble spots is clearly a good fit with the Pentagon's latest thinking surrounding the long war."
(6) No wonder Roger Burman, Winterhill's barrel-chested headteacher, was beaming on Thursday morning as he welcomed a line of nervous teenagers into the school hall, some of whom confessed they had been awake since 5am ("and I usually get up at 1pm", giggled Amy Jones as she loitered outside).
(7) Deborah Kerr's screen name had loitered for a dozen years somewhere in the back of my brain.
(8) This game had ambled along cagily for almost half an hour, Uruguay tigerishly setting about stifling any hint of Colombian ascendancy, when Abel Aguilar nodded the ball forward to Rodríguez, loitering with his back to goal in a pocket of space just outside the Uruguay penalty area.
(9) 2.27am BST Ringside Kevin Mitchell in Las Vegas writes: Although there is a lot of loitering still, this terrific arena already has given Ashley Theophane his biggest audience, maybe half of the 16,000 capacity.
(10) Shani Pinney, a department official, said on Monday that such offenders were barred from working or volunteering in schools and from “loitering on school property”.
(11) It was barely disrupted when Darmian – who had at times looked a weak link after loitering in possession – dislocated a shoulder after challenging for a 50-50 ball with Khazri and was replaced by Donald Love, a Scotland Under-21 international.
(12) But stagnation remains the cloud loitering overhead, and, if the economy sulks its way through 2012 and living standards continue to fall, the polls may shift as voters' patience wears out.
(13) Analyses by five major diagnostic groups showed that patients with a primary diagnosis of drug or alcohol abuse had the greatest overall frequency of arrests and also the greatest frequency of arrests for burglary, offenses against public order such as peace disturbance or loitering, and probation and parole violations.
(14) As conditions are made safe for these blithe cretins they become more dangerous for Sherpas, whose job is to loiter in the dangerous parts of the mountain and secure them for ever greater numbers of incompetents to hurry through, en route to their photographs on the top of the world.
(15) "This guy is making me lose my concentration," he complains later as another man loiters nearby.
(16) In the suburb of Wilberforce, in an old building for the telecommunications company Airtel, a dozen students loiter on a wall waiting to relieve staff from the trauma at the Ebola hotline they are manning.
(17) Father Toño, who moved here from Madrid 14 years ago, chats over coffee while his guards – whose presence is the result of death threats from drug traffickers – loiter outside.
(18) While protest charges have typically been seen as tantamount to nuisance crimes, like trespassing or loitering, these were different.
(19) A berry meringue roulade to whip sad whites into shape and a thick, sharp lemon curd to save the souls of any feckless yolks left loitering about your fridge.
(20) Time to loiter in bookshops and catch a nice boy's eye over a copy of Patti Smith's autobiography?