(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.
Kipper
Definition:
(n.) A salmon after spawning.
(n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh.
(v. t.) To cure, by splitting, salting, and smoking.
(1) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(2) "But it is true that I was poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury.
(3) Each week, as another Kipper gets done for some kind of insanity – a £3,000 restaurant bill in Margate?
(4) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
(5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
(6) "Oh, all that rubbish about Muriel being poisoned by a kipper in Glastonbury," he scoffed.
(7) If Kippers are a motley crew of Tory Europhobes, why should the left pay them any mind?
(8) She's appealing to the Kippers and the more extreme wing of her party, no matter what the consequences.
(9) My sister, who is a decade younger than me, suffers from it, too, and is often to be found picking over Whitehorn's advice about how useful the inhabitant of a bedsitter will find a jug - it can be used to make tea and coffee, or to cook kippers - or reading, for the ninth time, the author's warning that her recipe cooking times do not include 'the time it takes you to find the salt in the suitcase under the bed'.
(10) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
(11) I said that he resembled a kipper that had been smoked before it was dead, and Julie has blanked me since.
(12) None of these have made a dent in Ukip's support and those imagining one more "big push" on Europe will return the Kippers to the fold are deluding themselves.
(13) One of the greatest sources of anxiety among Labour backbenchers is the fear that immigration is mainly responsible for their leakage of votes to the Kippers.
(14) "I have said many, many times I wouldn't count any chickens", says Dorothy Baker, the 77-year-old retired teacher and grandmother-of-six who is part election generalissimo and part self-confessed mother hen to the "'Kippers" of Somerset.
(15) A source close to the company said: “Sports Direct looks forward to working with the management as a supportive shareholder.” Kipper Williams on Sports Direct Read more Earlier this year, his company took out a put option on shares in Debenhams , which gave it a 16.6% stake as Sports Direct negotiated a deal to manage sports goods areas within the department store chain.
(16) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
(17) Asked to explain the party's failure in London, Ukip's Suzanne Evans was asked if she agreed with the Kipper who had said the problem was that the capital was too full of the "cultured, educated and young".
(18) Two women laugh: “It’s only us tough old birds who can face the cold.” A man in a linen suit and panama hat sweeps past into the hotel, looking for all the world like Colonel Sanders; he’s by far the nattiest dressed of the Kippers who, on this showing, seem to be late-middle-aged women in bad anoraks.
(19) And before that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the unions, passengers and politicians about the prospect of higher fares and fewer trains and the general disaster of everything about Britain's railways since the day they stopped serving kippers for breakfast on the night sleeper to Aberdeen.
(20) Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East programme at Washington's Institute of World Affairs "Now he is president, I think we have to see whether Karzai has learned any lessons and whether he has the power and tools to govern in a different way.