(n.) The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).
Example Sentences:
(1) Other brands in the group include Remington Arms, the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles; Marlin Firearms, a manufacturer of lever-action rifles; and Advanced Armament, a maker of pistol silencers.
(2) Top young arms such as the New York Mets’ Matt Harvey and Miami Marlins’ José Fernández have gone under the knife.
(3) UKAR still owes taxpayers £42.1bn, which it is repaying as customers pay back their mortgages, although it raised a further £400m by selling its unsecured personal loans to OneSavings Bank and Marlin Financial last month.
(4) Fifty-seven samples of juvenile black marlin fish were analyzed for inorganic and methyl mercury, and total mercury was calculated by addition of the 2 values.
(5) A cladistic analysis of blue marlin cytochrome b variants indicates two major divergent evolutionary lines within the species.
(6) First off, Tulo leads the NL in an array of statistics – batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs scored, offensive WAR, trailing the Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton by two home runs with 18.
(7) Marlin red and white muscle buffer capacity was two times higher than trout with white muscle, buffering being two times greater than red in both species.
(8) The HRC contribution to total cellular buffering varied from a high of 62% for marlin white to a low of 7% for trout red.
(9) The blood of the striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) contains one major Root-effect haemoglobin.
(10) Even if he is lights out as he was as a Marlin while pitching against the Giants (3-1, 1.98 ERA, two shutouts), who cares if you can't hit?
(11) As the Republican congressman Marlin Stutzman pointed out in a particularly candid moment 18 months ago, when Republican obduracy caused a government shutdown, “We have to get something out of this.
(12) Just because an opportunity exists doesn’t mean that we’re going to close on that deal, because we want to be sure that any new team has the opportunity to be successful.” Putting the squeeze on the Orange Bowl site In July, a possibility sprang at the old Orange Bowl site adjacent to Marlins Park , a setting Beckham had originally rejected.
(13) Blood from capture-stressed striped marlin cannot be fully saturated with oxygen in the presence of lactic acid because of a substantial Root effect.
(14) The Miami Marlins considered and rejected the site during its own search for a new baseball stadium several years ago, according to the Miami Herald, in part because of the cost of transporting large rocks from elsewhere as landfill.
(15) Less than a decade ago, the city and county granted a hugely controversial public investment of $490m to fund the Miami Marlins baseball park.
(16) The ligand binding properties of the Root effect haemoglobin of the marlin have been investigated in the temperature range 12-35 degrees C. An essentially symmetric displacement of the binding isotherms to higher concentration is observed on raising the temperature.
(17) Alschuler told The Guardian on Tuesday that he welcomed the mayor’s letter as an “expansion of alternatives” for the location of the stadium, which also included the less favoured inland sites at Florida International University and next to Marlins Park in Little Havana.
(18) Suggestions included a giant squid, whose eyes can be as large as soccer balls, a bigeye thresher shark, which can reach can reach 16ft, a marlin or a particularly large sailfish.
(19) Their failure to win with those players acquired in the post 2012 blockbuster deal that brought Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson and Emilio Bonifacio to Ontario from Miami, makes it seem like the Marlins actually knew what they were doing when they broke up their core after one losing season.
(20) What’s also worth considering is the as-yet-unnamed MLS team (which may initially share Marlins Park when it joins MLS as planned in 2016) isn’t the only sporting enterprise in the city seeking permission for home improvements.
Swordfish
Definition:
(n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long.
(n.) The gar pike.
(n.) The cutlass fish.
(n.) A southern constellation. See Dorado, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(2) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(3) Moreover, the gene-transfer hypothesis cannot be discarded without postulating an enormous increase in the rate at which the superoxide dismutase gene has accumulated amino acid substitutions since the divergence of the swordfish and cattle lineages.
(4) The FWC has yet to release its official finding, but shark expert George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville said he had spoken to one of the commission's scientists on Friday afternoon, who told him "eye in hand" that he was sure that it came from a impressively-sized swordfish.
(5) Possible reasons are discussed for the peculiar first finding of this parasite in the gut of a swordfish.
(6) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research argues that Rajoy has changed his tune on conditionality a few times this year.
(7) The BGP of bluegill shares with swordfish BGP a truncated NH2 terminus and an extended COOH terminus.
(8) But there are also frozen scallops, whole sea bass and swordfish steaks, as well as Slimming World ready meals, quinoa and frozen berries for juicing.
(9) Collaborators determined methyl mercury in blind duplicate homogenates at 2 levels in tuna and at 1 level in swordfish and oysters.
(10) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research said it was largely a reaction to the poor PMI data out earlier today : You have a situation where the economic data has been very poor and Spain is clearly trying to avoid a bailout with any conditions at all.
(11) Swordfish, shark, tuna, shrimp, clams, oysters, and NBS Research Material-50 (tuna) were analyzed for methyl mercury by the AOAC official first action method.
(12) The mercury levels of museum specimens of seven tuna caught 62 to 93 years ago and a swordfish caught 25 years ago have been determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis.
(13) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research explains: The likelihood is that eventually they will request a bailout but that it will only come quickly if the conditions attached to any such financial assistance are negligible.
(14) "Of immediate concern is the trend in Spanish and Italian government bond yields," said Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research.
(15) Questionable to say the least November 7, 2013 Swordfish Research (@SwordfishGary) Draghi - 'Eurozone - Fundamentals are probably strongest in world...'- thats -ve loan demand, high unemployment, anaemic GDP growth... November 7, 2013 2.33pm GMT In other news, a team from Twitter including actor Sir Patrick Stewart just rang the opening bell on Wall Street.
(16) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research believes the Moody's downgrade could set the tone for the year: So, there we have it: officially we are now Good Britain; no longer Great, I’m afraid.
(17) Histidine was found in great quantities in all species except swordfish, anserine was found in relatively large amounts in tunas and swordfish, but carnosine was only present in small amounts in yellowfin and skipjack tunas.
(18) Gary Jenkins of Swordfish Research was on good form about the situation in Spain today, after the European finance ministers' meeting in Luxembourg ended last night.
(19) Collaborators also analyzed single homogenates of swordfish and oysters containing methyl mercury at a second level.
(20) In the morning, long and narrow boats pull into the harbour, and fisherman toss giant hammerhead sharks, tuna and swordfish into the waves, where they float until young men swim out from the dock to collect them, their muscles tense and glistening.