What's the difference between raffish and ratfish?

Raffish


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
  • (2) His father, a teacher, introduced him to serious drama, but young Bill also experienced raffish visual entertainment from the visiting Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
  • (3) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
  • (4) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
  • (5) He was always impeccably turned out - always a suit and tie, when the rest of us slobs slumped around the screening rooms in jeans - though he favoured a raffish cravat, brilliant white slacks and a huge pair of aviator-style sunglasses when on the Croisette at Cannes.
  • (6) The Tories have raffishly gathered at the country's best loved steeplechase race course this weekend, on the northern edge of town.
  • (7) She is the daughter of the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, and the raffish society snapper Lord Snowdon .
  • (8) The epitome of raffish cool in the Kate Moss days, he’s now actively positioning himself as a grumpy micromanaged has-been.
  • (9) Raffish, good-natured, and quintessentially English in his propensity to say sorry, Perry is now at agonies to insist his comments were ill-informed.
  • (10) A woman placed in the role of an action hero or a criminal adventurer is empowered, heroic, raffish.
  • (11) With its clubby green armchairs and smoothly attentive waiters, it's old school in the best possible way; what used to be called "raffish".
  • (12) Similarly, when Billy starts shooting large numbers of people through their heads in a breezy and cheerful fashion, you're supposed to take this as part of his raffish charm.
  • (13) Bill Astor, who had introduced the two lovers at the poolside party at the family seat, had a raffish reputation of his own - and he was David's elder brother.
  • (14) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.
  • (15) A raffish or mysterious aura, it seems to me, is just as helpful when it comes to making a class pay attention as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Hundred Years' War.

Ratfish


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Rat-tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ratfish serum proteins have been fractionated by ammonium sulfate, followed by gel filtration on Sepharose 6B.
  • (2) Elephantfish and pig glucagons differ at only four positions, but there are six changes from the ratfish glucagon-36 (normal glucagon contains 29 residues) sequence.
  • (3) Brain extract from the spotted ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, contains gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-like peptides in both sexes.
  • (4) Sertoli cells in the ratfish entirely surround a clone of spermatids to form a spermatocyst.
  • (5) A potent, highly selective bombesin receptor antagonist completely abolished the stimulation of amylase release caused by the ratfish peptide, demonstrating the specificity of the response.
  • (6) A highly purified bombesin-like peptide-containing fraction stimulated amylase release in a dose-responsive fashion from rat pancreatic acini; the dose-response curve was parallel to a bombesin standard, and the ratfish peptide stimulated the same maximal rate of amylase secretion as the bombesin standard.
  • (7) The primary structure of insulin from the Holocephalan fish, Hydrolagus colliei (the ratfish), has been established by automated Edman degradation as: (Formula: see text).
  • (8) The presence of a COOH-terminal extension to the B-chain is consistent with the occurrence of a single base mutation in the region of the gene encoding one of the dibasic residue processing sites [Arg31(AGA)----Ile* (AUA)] with the result that the ratfish has utilised an alternative cleavage site within the C-peptide region of proinsulin.
  • (9) Two molecular forms of glucagon-like peptide were isolated from the ratfish pancreas.
  • (10) A 36-amino-acid-residue peptide was isolated from the pancreas of a holocephalan fish, the Pacific ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei), that shows homology (69%) to mammalian glucagon in its N-terminal region and is reactive towards an N-terminally directed antiserum.
  • (11) Spermiogenesis in the ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) is characterized by unusual changes in the basic proteins of the nucleus.
  • (12) Ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei) intestines were boiled in water to inactivate proteases and then treated with cold 4% trifluoroacetic acid to extract bombesin-like peptides.
  • (13) Pituitary extracts from all animals, except the ratfish, goldfish and trout, contained IR-CGRP.
  • (14) The ratfish represents the most primitive organism that contains a form of GnRH that coelutes with chicken II and salmon II GnRH.
  • (15) The insulin B-chain contains 31 residues, one more than mammalian insulins, but markedly less than that of the closely related ratfish with which it otherwise exhibits high sequence similarity.
  • (16) The insulin with 38 amino acids in the B-chain was equipotent with human insulin in inhibiting the binding of radiolabelled human insulin to rat fat cells but the maximum effect of ratfish insulin upon the transport of 3-O-methylglucose into the cells was only 65% of the maximum effect of human insulin.
  • (17) In contrast to the heavy chain, the ratfish light chains display low sequence similarity with their shark kappa counterparts.
  • (18) It is argued that the ratfish GnRH molecule has been retained for over 400 million years of evolution and is expressed in most vertebrate classes.
  • (19) The amino acid compositions of both rabbit fish and ratfish insulins demonstrated a value consistently lower than that expected for the leucine content of the peptides.
  • (20) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the ratfish brain has been isolated and purified using reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography.

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