(n.) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In porgy, the relationship between the P and QRS axes could not be identified due to the smaller amplitude of the P wave.
(2) Since then, he has starred in stage versions of Porgy and Bess and The Witches of Eastwick, and was virtually the only black face in Richard Curtis's Notting Hill.
(3) Good motility of spermatozoa could be maintained for up to 10 days in vials hanging in a water bath at 4 degrees C. For cryopreservation, an extender containing 5% glucose mixed with glycerol, serving as the cryoprotective agent (CPA), at a 4:1 ratio was used and the black porgy milt was diluted with the extender at a 1:1 ratio.
(4) My dog, Porgy, although he might object to being seen as a possession.
(5) ECGs were recorded using five bipolar leads from the body surface of porgy Pagrus major and tilapia Oreochromis niloticus in fresh or sea-water, or held on a dry towel.
(6) 3013-N with 5-microns particles of porous polystyrene-divinylbenzene, and applied to estimate the freshness of porgy.
(7) Hepatic metabolites and enzymes in the marine fish, scup or porgy (Stenotomus chrysops), were determined in freeze-clamped tissue taken either within a day of removing fish from their natural habitat or after scup were held in captivity for 6-8 months.
(8) This paper describes the general biology of the testes, milt and spermatozoa of the black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli and reports some preliminary results in which the techniques for cryopreservation of spermatozoa were investigated.
(9) Clear ECG waves could not be obtained from porgy in sea-water because of the porgy's small cardiac potential and leakage of the potential.
(10) Total amounts of ATP, ADP and AMP in an isolated muscle just after death gradually decreased to 60% of the original amount after 5 h, and the ATP content rapidly decreased to 20% after 1 h. A good correlation was found between the levels of total adenine compounds and the energy charge values obtained from nineteen porgies frozen at a prerigour state.
(11) Our sports desk claims to recognise this and to have paid special attention to women's events since the Olympics, but as Sportin' Life sings in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess : "It ain't necessarily so."
(12) Then I was working with director Trevor Nunn on a production of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess at Glyndebourne in 1987, and he suggested it.
(13) "The Muses Are Heard" , published in the New Yorker in 1956, chronicled a trip to the Soviet Union by the Everyman Opera, which was touring with Gershwin's Porgy and Bess , and showcased razor-sharp observation and a tone of voice that ranged from the playful to the acidic.
(14) Audra McDonald was named best lead actress in a musical for Porgy and Bess, which – in another upset – was named best musical revival over Follies.