(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.
Sprat
Definition:
(n.) A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
(n.) A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
Example Sentences:
(1) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(2) Rats receiving canned "small-sized sprats" or "sprats developed much more often malignant tumors of different localization than did the animals fed on "Stavrida" or control rats.
(3) It has nothing to do with militarisation.” South China Sea: US bomber angers Beijing with Spratly islands flypast Read more The development, later confirmed by the Taiwanese defence ministry, reverberated through an Asean (Association of South-East Asian Nations) leaders’ meeting in California, hosted by Barack Obama.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, in this image provided by the US navy.
(5) Beijing is militarising the Spratly islands despite the fact that it has said it would not,” said Ashley Townshend, a fellow at the University of Sydney’s United States studies centre.
(6) One of the peculiarities of Beijing’s longstanding claim over the two South China Sea island chains, the Paracels and the Spratlys, is that they lie so far from the country that it has been effectively impossible for the Chinese military to patrol the area from its existing bases hundreds of nautical miles away.
(7) Warm the oil in a shallow frying pan on a high heat, add the sprats and squeeze over the lime juice.
(8) Similar US patrols were also conducted around features that Vietnam and the Philippines have built up in the Spratlys in the past, according to the US Defense Department.
(9) China has almost finished construction of a 3,000m runway on the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea, satellite images have shown.
(10) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
(11) In a report, China’s new Spratly island defences , the AMTI said its analysts had identified what appeared to be defence “fortifications” on Fiery Cross, Mischief and Subi reefs.
(12) The best results were obtained with the use of sprat hydrolysate nutrient agar.
(13) Ambitious Chinese reclamation work has added to tensions around the Spratly archipelago, where the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan have competing territorial claims.
(14) China says it has been 'restrained' by not seizing more islands in South China Sea Read more The US recently sailed a warship within 22km (13 miles) of the Spratly archipelago in a direct challenge to China’s territorial claims.
(15) The two countries are locked in long-standing territorial disputes over the Paracel and Spratly islands, which both claim, and often trade diplomatic barbs over oil exploration and fishing rights in the contested waters.
(16) The levels of organochlorine pesticides reported are two to three times higher than those reported for wet muscles of sprats sampled in the same area two years before, whilst for PCB the levels differ slightly.
(17) Jack Sprat (@Jacqueimo) Some carefully deployed protest cockroaches seem to have brought a halt to Byron's shaftesbury Ave operations.
(18) Barack Obama’s decision to send a US guided missile destroyer into disputed waters off the Spratly islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday has provoked predictable outpourings of rage and veiled threats from Beijing – but nothing, yet, in the way of a military response.
(19) China’s heated response to Tuesday’s manoeuvre by the USS Lassen off the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, where Beijing is controversially building military airstrips and lighthouses on reclaimed land, left it little wiggle room.
(20) China should plan to take Taiwan by force after Trump call, state media says Read more The Washington-based group said the images, which were taken last month, showed what appeared to be anti-aircraft guns and close-in weapons systems (CIWS) installed on man-made islands in the South China Sea’s disputed Spratly archipelago, where Brunei, China , Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam all have territorial claims.