(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.
Reefer
Definition:
(n.) One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.
(n.) A close-fitting lacket or short coat of thick cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(2) How can she be so self-avowedly hip (Revolver, reefer) and yet so naive (swinging)?
(3) Add an ending that's midnight-black, morally, yet somehow just right, and it's the kind of throwaway thriller that could only be improved by seeing it in a nighttime drive-in with a date, some reefer and a fifth of Old Harper.
(4) We're not just talking opposition to the Vietnam war and a few tokes on a reefer.
(5) If Trump allows Senator Sessions personal preference to dictate policy, we could be seeing a return to ‘reefer madness’ rhetoric and efforts to shut down voter-approved initiatives,” said Erik Altieri, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Norml).
(6) On the rare occasions that pundits revive tired Reefer Madness narratives, they are largely mocked or simply ignored.
(7) One promising sign is that last week the New York Times endorsed legalisation with a series of opinion pieces debunking myths about "reefer madness" and examining the social costs of locking up large numbers of young men, most of them black or Latino, on trivial possession charges.
(8) A saleswoman bags up a sale for a customer at Dr Reefer's marijuana dispensary at the University of Colorado, in Boulder.