(n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(2) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
(4) Ditto the Little Mermaid’s Ariel, whose desire not just to change her circumstances but change her physical form has made her an unlikely object of identification among some younger members of the transgender community – a girl who believes herself literally born in the wrong body.
(5) The levels of two- and three-ring aromatics ranged from very low for the site outside Mermaid Sound and for one site within the Sound, to low for the four other sites within the Sound.
(6) The human and fishman MTs displayed a stoichiometry of 12 g atoms of Cu(I) per mol, while rainbow trout and mermaid MTs bound only 10.
(7) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(8) Sirenomelia, or the mermaid syndrome, is the most extreme example of the caudal regression syndrome.
(9) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
(10) Samples from sites within Mermaid Sound closest to the town and port of Dampier showed noticeably higher levels than those from outside; the present study does not allow the source of the PAHs to be determined.
(11) As the perceptive sports writer Jerry Izenberg once said: “If they trawl the Ohio river for a thousand years, they are more likely to find a mermaid than an Olympic gold medal.” It is a rebuttal that Ali himself would have found heartbreakingly funny – and true.
(12) And that, increasingly, people aren’t prepared to go to all the trouble of going out to eat at their favourite restaurant – not when they can have the same food while sprawling on the sofa in a novelty mermaid blanket watching Homeland .
(13) A family of synthetic genes was constructed encoding a rainbow trout metallothionein (MT), a human MT, and two chimeric molecules which contained respectively (i) the N-terminal (or head) domain of human MT followed by the C-terminal (or tail) domain of a fish MT (termed mermaid MT) and (ii) the head domain of fish MT fused with the tail domain of human MT (denoted fishman MT).
(14) I just shot the Mermaid Parade in New York and it killed me,” he says.
(15) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
(16) Medical intervention is very important, especially for teenagers who are already in puberty,” says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids and mother of a trans daughter.
(17) A five-year-old with a fascination for butterflies and caterpillars and mermaids who began talking about suicide … Our child lives as a girl now and her school describes her as "calm, mature, bright-eyed and intelligent".
(18) The English singer has since recorded many of these with US band Wilco as The Mermaid Avenue Sessions .
(19) The Mermaids website is quite negative,” she says.
(20) Coral-rock oysters were collected in September 1982 from six locations in the area of Mermaid Sound in North-Western Australia.
Merman
Definition:
(n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other stage successes followed: Cole Porter's Red, Hot And Blue, with Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman, and the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, in which he sang I Can't Get Started With You to chorus girl Eve Arden.
(2) After West Side Story , he was in line to write the music for Gypsy , but Ethel Merman thought him too green, and it went to Jule Styne.