(n.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(2) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
(3) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(4) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(5) Two other species of fish that we really don't eat enough of are sardines and herring.
(6) Spectral analysis of the rhythmograms in the cod Gadus morhua callarias, plaice Pleuronectes platessa, herring Clupea harengus membras and trout Salmo gairdneri revealed complex wave structure of their cardiac rhythm.
(7) Anisakiasis is a zoonotic disease caused by the ingestion of larval nematodes in raw seafood dishes such as sushi, sashimi, ceviche, and pickled herring.
(8) I think it's a good thing that comedians want to exploit (and relieve) our anxieties about what's sayable – but only if we as audiences become bolder in opposing comedy that bullies, comedy that sneers at the vulnerable and the under-represented, comedy that feels, in Herring's words, "like being at school and going, 'Ha ha, you're a spastic.'"
(9) Lard, coconut oil, corn oil, methyl linoleate and herring oil have been analysed before and after irradiation for lipid peroxide content and fatty acid composition.
(10) The study, which is a massive review of existing scientific studies, warns that if CO2 emissions continue unchecked many key parts of the marine environment – particularly coral reefs and the algae and plankton which are essential for fish such as herring and salmon – will be "severely affected" by 2050, leading to the extinction of some species.
(11) Under influence of the herring diet the parameters mentioned appeared only slightly changed.
(12) In this way, Brexit emerges as something of a red herring.
(13) After diets supplemented with canned mackerel or herring, in a cross-over design, containing different amounts of long-chain n-3 fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid, C20:5n-3-EPA, and docosahexaenoic acid, C22(6)n-3-DHA) an increase of both EPA and DHA was confirmed in triglycerides (TG), cholesterol esters (CE) and phospholipids (PL) of very low density (VLDL) and low density lipoproteins (LDL) as well as in high density lipoproteins (HDL) from hyperlipidemic subjects.
(14) This is the first report of the myxosporean Ortholinea orientalis from Atlantic herring Clupea harrengus.
(15) In marine fish (herring, dogfish shark, hagfish) FAO activities were all less than 15% that of rats and undetectable in hagfish.
(16) Read dismisses the warning as a "red herring" but admits the merger would lead to job cuts and reduced research spending .
(17) Theodore Olson, the lead co-counsel for two of the Virginia plaintiffs, described it as a “ great day” for Virginia and said he looked forward to working with Herring to strike down the state's “odious marriage ban”.
(18) Several different monosaccharides were seen in glycoconjugates in melanotrophs and in Herring bodies.
(19) Renal clearance experiments were performed on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and great black-backed gull chicks (L. marinus) to test the importance of parathyroid hormone (PTH), parathyroidectomy (PTX), and calcium loading on excretion patterns of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate.
(20) Supplementation of a dry diet containing herring and soybean meals with D biotin had no effect on the feed comsumption, growth or mortality of rainbow trout in a 28 week experiment.
Herringbone
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The herringbone pattern was associated with a more favorable prognosis than the malignant fibrous histiocytoma pattern.
(2) Modelling and conformational analysis of single chains using the virtual bond approach lead to two possible models for the crystalline helix: 'herringbone' versus 'comb-like'.
(3) Ultrastructurally, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is marked by characteristic features such as herringbone, prismatic and tufaceous patterns which are typically encountered within oligodendrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS) and in Schwann cells (PNS).
(4) Ice structure in collagen gels consisted predominantly of long, parallel crystals in the herringbone pattern.
(5) A gentle introduction is the ride to the chapel of Saint Laurent in the neighbouring hamlet of Maâ, past typical Landais houses built in a herringbone-pattern brick, with a gently sloping roof that almost touches the ground.
(6) The actin polymer, like the thin filaments of muscle, is known to be polarized as demonstrated by the well known "HMM decoration" technique to give a "herringbone" pattern pointing in one direction.
(7) Invariant aromatic residues close-pack at the bottom of the binding-site beta-barrel with their ring planes oriented perpendicularly in the characteristic "herringbone" packing mode.
(8) The lead foil of dental x-ray film packets may cause a number of artifacts; especially well known are the "tractor treads" and "herringbone patterns" following a backward filmpositioning in the patient's mouth.
(9) In a herringbone milking parlour, teat cup liners were deliberately contaminated in turn with Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Streptococcus agalactiae and Sterp uberis.
(10) An electron microscopic examination of the accumulated metachromatic lipid granules showed various structures such as concentric lamellar, tuffstone, herringbone and hexagonal honeycomb appearances, and some ultrastructural differences between the nervous system and other organs.
(11) The characteristic storiform cellular arrangement of DFSP was replaced by long, gently sweeping fascicles of spindle cells that intersected at various angles, forming the so-called herringbone pattern.
(12) The collagen of the horns is organized into discrete bundles that are separated from one another by loose connective tissue septa, while that of the body is arranged in a "herringbone" pattern; no septa are present in the body.
(13) A processing artefact is described that is similar in appearance to the tractor-tread (or herringbone) pattern seen on an intra-oral dental radiograph that has been exposed the wrong way round in the mouth.
(14) The previous timber floors would have been removed and replaced with herringbone oak floor with inset rugs, and stone walls replaced with white Carrara marble.
(15) herringbone road marking, flashing beacon, chevron, and post delineator) were evaluated in a driving simulator.
(16) The apparatus developed to effect this back-flushing for a particular herringbone parlour is described, with details of its routine use during milking.
(17) The hairpin molecules pack in the crystal in herringbone columns in a manner that accounts well for the observed relative crystal growth rates in a, b and c directions.
(18) The solid spindle growth pattern assumed various configurations, including fascicular areas, storiform and herringbone formations, angiofibroma and hemangiopericytoma-like areas, synovial sarcoma-like areas, and neural-type palisading, thus simulating a variety of soft-tissue neoplasms.
(19) The resultant polymers showing both decorated and undecorated portions were examined and found to consist of a large majority of "spears" i.e., the added undecorated polymer extended in the direction opposite to that direction pointed by the "herringbone" pattern.
(20) Highly cellular tumors with a herringbone-pattern must be differentiated from primarily extrahepatic fibrosarcomas or myosarcomas, and highly cellular solid or medullary tumors from metastasis from a carcinoma or lymphoma.