What's the difference between midshipman and midshipmen?
Midshipman
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
(n.) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
(n.) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.
(n.) An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is seen as a slow thermal loss of photopigment if (sodium) cyanide is present at concentrations above 40 mM for the gecko pigment and 150 mM for the rhodopsins of the midshipman (Porichthys notatus) and of the frog (Rana pipiens).
(2) In one species of vocalizing fish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), large, nest-guarding males ('type I') use striated muscles to produce acoustic communication signals that include short duration (less than 1 s) 'burps' important in agonistic encounters and long duration (in the order of minutes) 'hums' which function in attracting females to nest sites during the breeding season.
(3) He barely knew his brother when he was growing up, because Frank went to sea at 16 as a midshipman, and then lived in Singapore for 14 years.
(4) Look, this is polite journalism speak for “guy who is supposed to be celibate and certainly not gay was at the very least bashing bishops with some midshipman he picked up at a bar near the port”.
(5) In the skate coexistence was complete, while in the midshipman some cells demonstrated immunoreactivity for only one or the other neuropeptide.
(6) In one species of vocalizing (sonic) fish, the midshipman (Porichthys notatus), there are two classes of sexually mature males--Types I and II--distinguished by a number of traits including body size, gonad size, and reproductive tactic.
(7) In one marine species, the midshipman (Porichthys notatus), there is a sex difference in the overall size of the swimbladder as well as in the ultrastructural properties of its myofibrils.
(8) A monoclonal antibody (Ab8) to choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) was used to locate structures showing ChAT-like immunoreactivity (ChAT-IR) in the brain of a teleost fish, the midshipman (Porichthys notatus).
(9) "The boy I was in love with – he was just 18 – was a midshipman and a naval attaché, David Bevan.
(10) Ludo himself had just turned 20, and had enlisted as a midshipman.
(11) The sonic motor nucleus of the plainfin midshipman, Porichthys notatus, is a midline nucleus located at the junction of the caudal medulla and rostral spinal cord.
Midshipmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Midshipman
Example Sentences:
(1) Here, the organization of the SMN is compared in two unrelated groups of teleosts, the midshipmen, Porichthys notatus and P. myriaster, and the sea robin, Prionotus carolinus.
(2) It is anticipated that when women midshipmen begin to participate in the same vigorous sports as men, e.g., soccer, lacrosse, and others, that injuries will increase.
(3) However, the nucleus in mormyrids lies dorsal to the fourth ventricle and central canal, not ventral as it does in midshipmen and sea robins.
(4) The physical performance of 63 women in that class along with 69 in the Class of 1981 and 78 in the Class of 1982 is compared to the performance of a random sample of male midshipmen in the same Classes.
(5) A study to determine the degree of normal talar tilt in individuals with no history of ankle injuries was performed on 404 ankles of 202 midshipmen at the U.S.
(6) While the SMN is a fused midline structure in midshipmen, it is bilateral in sea robins.