(n.) Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
(n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
(n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
(n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
(n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
(n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
(n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
(v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
(v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
(v. t.) To occupy as a perch.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sensitive radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the measurement of metallothionein (MT) from perch (Perca fluviatilis) has been developed.
(2) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
(3) We tested 1,145 isolates from fresh and spoiling irradiated (0.0, 0.3, and 0.6 Mrad) yellow perch fillets for proteolytic activity, by the use of both media.
(4) In order to determine the most suitable cage environment for the squirrel monkey, a series of studies were carried out to compare various perch materials and cage configurations.
(5) Peering out from his Kremlin perch, Putin sees a European continent divided between wealthy and poor countries, between north and south, and senses an opportunity.
(6) Just a whisper between us, its about time some of the old guard got a hoot under their perch.
(7) Does he fancy winning the league again & knock Liverpool right off their perch?"
(8) Only a slight induction in monooxygenase activities was seen in perch caught near the oil spill 4 months after the accident.
(9) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(10) Kerry McQuade whose home perched high up on Blenheim Street avoided the worst effects, said: "We had two hours of a torrential downpour, followed by continual rain, from lunchtime.
(11) The same phenomenon was observed for the perch and Crusian carp, with low nitrate concentrations, while with higher nitrate concentrations, the uptake levels were again increased.
(12) The rest of the week he drives to other city centres and commercial sites, with Emu sitting on a perch in a large wooden box in the back of the van.
(13) The separation of two isoforms of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) metallothionein was possible by DEAE-Sephadex A-25 chromatography, while only one form of perch (Perca fluviatilis) metallothionein was obtained with this method.
(14) Lines of Syrian army troops circle Qerdaha, adding an additional defence to the natural protection offered by the mountain it perches on, overlooking Latakia.
(15) Cells of the gas gland of the perch Perca fluviatilis L., stimulated to increased generation of gas by the repeated emptying of the swim-bladder, were examined in the electron microscope.
(16) The total lipid content in the muscle of perch (Perca fluviatilis) and vendace (Coregonus albula) was less than 50% of that in rainbow trout and a seasonal variation was clear only in vendace.
(17) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(18) Therefore we suggest that this purified form of cytochrome P-450 is a BNF-induced form in perch and that it is closely related to the gene subfamily cytochrome P-450 IA1.
(19) The Five senior programme controller, Chris Shaw, said: "Ten years on from the famous perch people are still obsessing with soft furnishings and the desk.
(20) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.
Pole
Definition:
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
(n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
(n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
(v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
(v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
(v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
(v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
(n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
(n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
(n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
(n.) The firmament; the sky.
(n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(3) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) PYY-containing secretory granules were primarily found in the basal pole of open-type endocrine cells.
(6) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(7) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
(8) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(9) Two of them, the radiocapitate and deep radioscapholunate, insert on the scaphoid, whereas the collateral ligament courses to the distal pole of the scaphoid.
(10) Thus, the present observations provide histochemical evidence indicating an exclusive localization of calcium in mitochondria and tubulovesicular structures of the secretory ameloblast, and support their contributions to the translocation of calcium from the proximal to the distal pole of the cytoplasm.
(11) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(12) The retinal findings are quite similar to those found in diabetic retinopathy, except for unilaterality corresponding to the more obstructed artery and early onset in the retinal midzone rather than the posterior pole.
(13) Less marked lesions were however observed in distal tubules, particularly large vacuoles were present at the apical poles of the tubule cells, the sites of kallikrein secretion.
(14) The testicular vein--midway between the internal inguinal ring and the lower pole of the kidney--divides into the medial and lateral branch to form a delta.
(15) Probably there is a continuity of this system throughout the entire vascular pole including (1) all granulated cells, (2) all lacis cells, (3) the mesangium cells and (4) the adjacent smooth muscle cells of the vas afferens and vas efferens.
(16) In all of the old rats, but not in any of the young ones, symmetric high voltage activity was observed in the frontal pole of the cortex.
(17) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(18) Therefore, this nonrandom segregation to opposite poles can occur by mechanisms that do not involve DNA sequence homology.
(19) The intranuclear spindle of yeast has an electron-opaque body at each pole.
(20) All of these AChE positive fibers appeared to be related to the medial portions of the dorsal hippocampus from its septal pole to the dorsal psalterium.