What's the difference between horsehead and moonfish?
Horsehead
Definition:
(n.) The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, all the jobs I have been offered so far have been worth $14 an hour instead of the $20 I was making at Horsehead," he says.
(2) "The job offers I'm getting are way worse than what I used to make at Horsehead," Jeffers says.
(3) Monaca is a prime example of the tradeoffs of reshoring: as the Horsehead plant closes and takes 700 jobs with it, a new Shell petrochemical plant will take up residence in the county.
(4) As John Jeffers, the Horsehead union boss, winds down his fight to secure the future of his colleagues, he is also thinking about his own future.
(5) In the late 1980s, he, like many of his childhood friends, took a job in a factory at the the Horsehead Corporation plant in Monaca, which produces both prime western zinc for brass-making and zinc oxide to make Michelin tires.
(6) None of the possible solutions – from educational reform to infrastructure investment – will come in time to help the workers at the Horsehead plant.
(7) Horsehead, struggling with high electricity prices and the cost of new environmental regulations, failed to get tax incentives it wanted from the state of Pennsylvania to reduce its costs.
(8) It will take patience and a deep compromise: the Shell plant's construction is years away, and it will employ 225 workers compared to Horsehead's 700 employees, 500 of whom have union jobs.
Moonfish
Definition:
(n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
(n.) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.