(n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
(n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
(n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gill bars (bearing gill rakers that interlock with rakers of adjacent arches) clearly function as a resistance within the oral cavity and restrict posterior water influx during mouth opening, creating a unidirectional flow during feeding.
(2) The threshold of both filament-related and gill raker mechanoreceptors was relatively high.
(3) The basal lamina exhibits a smooth contour over most of the gill surface with the exception of the short gill rakers where it formed cones within the taste bud cores, and on the respiratory lamellae where it closely mimicked the underlying capillary network.
(4) Two rows of gill filaments (about 42 filaments per row) extended posterolaterally, and two rows of gill rakers (about 10 rakers per row) extended anteromedially from each arch.
(5) Anatomical examinations showed that fluid channels in the buccal chamber and gill raker sieve are complex and can be expected to vary spatially and temporally throughout the respiratory cycle.
(6) Physiological properties of gill filament and gill raker mechanoreceptors in the gills of spontaneously breathing carp, Cyprinus carpio L., were analysed.
(7) 2 generally prefers relatively flat surfaces in the gill chamber but is more versatile in its choice of attachment sites on its host, the blacktip cod, Epinephelus fasciatus; two specimens were attached to the gill arch, one to a gill raker and one to the dorsal pharyngeal tooth pad.
(8) The department sent undercover officers, codenamed "rakers", into Muslim neighbourhoods, and ran a network of informants known as "mosque crawlers" to monitor sermons – even when there had been no evidence of criminality.
(9) Gill rakers are large in size in Notopterus notopterus while they are small in Colisa fasciatus.
(10) Taste buds were especially prominent on the rakers and the pharyngeal surfaces of the first and second gill arches, but were often replaced by horny spines on the third and fourth gill arches.
(11) In an effort to uncover terrorist plots, so-called "rakers" or "mosque crawlers" – typically paid NYPD informants – were sent to Muslim student association meetings, businesses, universities, restaurants, whitewater rafting trips and more than 250 mosques in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
(12) Deflection of gill rakers also elicited a brief response in epibranchial ganglion neurons.
(13) The map of the oropharyngeal epithelium is distorted so that the gill arches are rotated through an angle of 90 degrees along the transverse plane, and the dorsally mapped region of the gill rakers is tilted posteriorly in the sagittal plane of the vagal lobe.
(14) Gill head region consists of bony arch, gill rakers and interbranchial septum.
Raver
Definition:
(n.) One who raves.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(2) Prieto is due to be executed for the 1988 killings of Rachael Raver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III.
(3) The wrecked "candy ravers" and rampaging fratboys of EDM cliche are barely present – aside from more visible breasts and muscles, it is close to any European festival audience out for a good time, perhaps even a bit savvier.
(4) Like the jazzy nest of some mutant raver-crows, it is a curious arrival to the sleepy medieval lanes, a 90m-long torrent of orange sticks between the classical law courts and the baroque bell tower.
(5) The only brain scans that have been done are of recreational ecstasy users, whose drugs may be contaminated and who have probably taken other substances, too.The death in 1995 of Leah Betts after taking ecstasy, from drinking too much water in response to a campaign warning ravers of the danger of dehydration, had prevented rational debate or scientific advance.
(6) Veteran lefty Billy Bragg, Suggs, Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard, dance act Orbital, and rock-ravers Enter Shikari were among the bands and artists brought together to recreate the sound of silence.
(7) Hannah Verdier Glue 10pm, E4 Despite being billed as “the new Skins”, this teen drama has seen plots far gloomier than anything the Bristol ravers ever endured.
(8) Dan Snaith looks as if he’s about to deliver an informed running commentary on Istria’s Roman remains; instead, he pulls up the fader on another tropical disco banger and a boatload of expectant ravers go politely bananas.
(9) Since he averages more than a show a day, with more than 300 under his belt this year, perhaps his tendency to notice screaming glowstick-flinging ravers over griping keyboard warriors isn't surprising.
(10) At Electric Daisy Carnival and similar dance festivals, the look has evolved from the child-like "candy raver" of the 1990s, with their pigtails and cuddly toys and pacifiers (dummies), to a slick and sexified yet also kitschy-surreal image midway between Venice Beach and Cirque Du Soleil, Willy Wonka and a Gay Pride parade: girls in Daisy Dukes and bikini tops (or even bare breasts daubed in glittery body paint) but who also wear tutus, giant furry boots in turquoise and hot pink, and fairy wings.
(11) But Moore is insistent, and pretty convincing, as he says that Miami's Ultra Music Festival – which this year has been held up as the epitome of rave Babylon , with pictures of wasted ravers and exhibitionist industry executives going viral – was safer and better-organised than most music or sporting events of comparable size.
(12) As the festival powers down for the night, Dan descends into the throng, offering a hug to every loved-up raver who wants one.
(13) Rituals like "tutting", which evolved out of the glove-dances performed by American ravers in the 90s but which now enhances the intricate hand-movements with glowing and flickering LED fingertips.
(14) By 16, she was playing at warehouse parties in east London, where ravers would run around "half-naked on ketamine".
(15) The Hunger (1983) was an electro gothic noir about an elderly vampire called Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) who preys on ravers with her undead lover, John (David Bowie), who himself falls for Susan Sarandon's medic.
(16) After the release of their first album, the Stone Roses spoke to a generation of ravers during the second "summer of love" in 1989.
(17) But the rest of them, men and women alike, formed a rainbow coalition of ageing candy ravers.
(18) Their psychedelic sound spoke to a generation of ravers during the second "summer of love".
(19) The media image of the demented raver who DJs with sandpaper discs "was made up because I didn't want to come across as average and boring".
(20) In 2002, I had just moved to London, a jaded raver looking for a new electronic fix, and was thrilled and baffled by the deranged transmissions of pirate radio.