(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
(n.) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
(n.) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
(n.) The period after the close of life; death.
(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy patients were randomised to Fm 40 mg at night and Rn placebo and 62 to Rn 300 mg at night and Fm placebo.
(2) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(3) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(4) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(5) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(6) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(7) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(8) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(9) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(10) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
(11) The findings reported here suggest that if women nurse exclusively for the 1st half year, maintaining night nursing after introducing supplements is important.
(12) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(13) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(14) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(15) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(16) The subjects underwent a lumbar puncture and three nights of polysomnography.
(17) At 9.30am, ITV was at 69.2p, up 1.7% on last night's closing price.
(18) 12pm, Channel 4 press office: "I refer you to the statement put out last night."
(19) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(20) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
Sunfish
Definition:
(n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.
(n.) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(n.) The opah.
(n.) The basking, or liver, shark.
(n.) Any large jellyfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In embryos formed from warmouth x green sunfish hybrid crosses, the paternal GPI-A2 isozymes were first expressed at the same time in both reciprocal hybrids, at 21-25 hr after fertilization.
(2) Immature green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, were assessed in the laboratory tank only.
(3) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(4) We report here that the GABA antagonists bicuculline and picrotoxin induced light-adaptive cone contraction in dark-adapted green sunfish retinas cultured in constant darkness; thus they mimic the effect of light or exogenously applied dopamine.
(5) We previously reported that 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine (dopamine) mimicked the effect of light on these movements in photo-receptors and RPE cells of green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, by interacting with D2 dopaminergic receptors.
(6) n. is described from the episclera of the eye of the pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus).
(7) However, there was a better correlation between the in vitro cytotoxicity data for the BF-2 cell culture and LC50 data for bluegill sunfish than between similar data for the FHM cell line and fathead minnows.
(8) Comparisons were made of the accumulation of selenium, histopathological damage, and reproductive status of redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) collected in July 1986 from Martin Lake (a contaminated site) and Lake Tyler (a reference site).
(9) The retinofugal and retinopetal connections in the green sunfish were studied by autoradiographic and horseradish peroxidase methods.
(10) Upon transferring 25 degrees C-acclimated sunfish to holding tanks at 7 degrees C, the total membrane resistance exhibited a sigmoidal increase over about 14 days, and a steady membrane capacitance was achieved in about 10 days.
(11) Several eye movements were evoked by electrical stimulation of the brain in anesthetized sunfish and goldfish.
(12) The membrane conductance of fibres from sunfish acclimated to 25 and 7 degrees C was linearly related to the extracellular chloride concentration.
(13) Cadmium effects on the bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) were assessed histologically and biochemically and the effects were compared with effects on the ecologically relevant parameters of growth and survival.
(14) n. is described from the warmouth, Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier); brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur); yellow bullhead, I. natalis (Lesueur); redbreast sunfish, L. auritus (Linnaeus); bluegill, L. macrochirus Rafinesque; spotted sunfish, L. punctatus (Valenciennes); and redfin pickerel, Esox americanus (Gmelin), from the Alabama River Drainage, brown bullhead from the Mobile Bay Drainage in Alabama, and pirate perch, Aphredoderus sayanus Gilliams, from an Atlantic Coast drainage in Georgia.
(15) BF-2 cells, an established cell line derived from bluegill sunfish, (Lepomis macrochirus), were exposed to 18 organic toxicants, with cytotoxicity being assayed by the neutral red (NR) technique.
(16) We have recorded ocular potentials in response to brief flashes of light from two teleosts, the white perch (Roccus americana) and the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
(17) The results show that tissue burdens of selenium have declined by 25% since this sunfish population was sampled last in 1981.
(18) The in vitro cytotoxicities of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to bluegill sunfish BF-2 cells were determined with the neutral red assay, which was modified by the incorporation of an S-9 microsomal fraction.
(19) To explore the mechanisms of this light and circadian regulation, we have been investigating effects of several extracellular messengers known to be present in retina on retinomotor movements in the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
(20) The neutral red assay was used to compare the relative sensitivities of the FHM cells (exposed at 34 degrees C) with those of bluegill sunfish (BF-2) cells, a fibroblastic cell culture (exposed at 26 degrees C), in the presence of different classes of test agents frequently occurring as aquatic pollutants.