(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.
Porky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
(2) With its brightly punchy tomato sauce, good mound of rocket, decent if sparingly distributed mozzarella and porky, spicy salsiccia sausage, my sampler largely backed up such hype.
(3) Some did (the Porky's franchise ran and ran) and some didn't (anyone remember Squeeze Play?)
(4) Well how come you've been telling me a big bleedin' porky for the last six months?
(5) Power companies that do not meet their legal renewables obligations are telling porkies if they suggest that when you sign up for their green tariff, they will deliver more green electricity.
(6) April 30, 2015 O’Shaughnessy said: “Despite the odd porky Clegg is doing quite well.” And then added, “For clarity: I respect Clegg voting for £9,000 fees cos it’s a good policy.
(7) Now imagine that your neighbour has quietly accumulated debts of £30,000 over the years, and told a few porkies along the way to get their credit card limit raised.
(8) The kind of bawdy, sexually explicit antics that began with Porky's and resurfaced in the teenage and twentysomething-targeted "grossout" movies of the late 90s were extending their hold in films for those a little older.
(9) The roasted aroma of these porky treats emanates from La Reina de la Roma, a simple fonda with a few tables spilling on to the street, in the old Colonia Roma neighborhood, near its interesting central market.
(10) We have sex whenever we can and when we can’t we masturbate, ’cos being in a band takes up a lot of our time [Hillel starts to play an imaginary violin].” You once said: “We want to make the world a better place with our music.” I presume that’s a major-league porky pie?
(11) The patients were subdivided into two groups: a complex of commonly used curative measures according to the intensive therapy for AHI was applied in Group A (67 patients); in Group B (59 patients), alongside with the above measures, temporary organ substitution by hemoperfusion through a suspension of active porky hepatocytes was also performed.
(12) It also added dozens of diversions, the most needless of which was the ability of your controlled character, a young man named CJ, to get fat from eating health-restoring pizza and burgers – fat that could be burned off only by hauling CJ's porky ass down to the gym to ride a stationary bike and lift weights.
(13) Later imitations such as the Porky's series took the bawdiness of Animal House to a new level of explicitness, but overlooked the genuinely innovative aspect of the movie: its sophisticated frankness about rebellion.
(14) 1970s: a humble record-cutter popularises the “run-off groove” message George “Porky” Peckham cut records for the Beatles, Genesis and Led Zeppelin before setting up his own business in London’s West End, attracting punk and indie bands with cash-price deals.
(15) There’s not only the discount the government has inflicted on itself by telling porkies and playing cynical games with the voters, Abbott also faces the difficulties of the current political communication environment.
(16) When he finished a job, he’d “sign” his nickname into the deadwax between the music and the label – either Pecko, Pecko Duck, Porky, or his most famous inscription, “A Porky Prime Cut” – and add dryly humorous phrases.
(17) Marrying the ultimate in comfort and cured meat, J&D’s Bacon Scented Underwear represents the gold standard of meat-scented luxury undergarments,” says the Seattle-based food company behind the porky pants.
(18) As anyone who has ever tried to keep a car on the potholed roads of Bihar, in northern India, will know, that description is a giant porky.
(19) Why are former footballers like Alan Hansen and the one who looks like a porky hairdresser paid more than Jeremy Paxman , the most authoritative broadcast journalist in Britain?
(20) Please, send me your autograph.” Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth said: “This is all rather embarrassing for Eric Pickles, who’s been caught telling porkie pies about his pulling prowess.