(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.
Saker
Definition:
(n.) A falcon (Falco sacer) native of Southern Europe and Asia, closely resembling the lanner.
(n.) The peregrine falcon.
(n.) A small piece of artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Richard Saker In the meantime it is being left to dedicated people such as Carmel McConnell and Magic Breakfast, to big brands, to teaching assistants and staff across the country who are prepared to get up early enough to make sure that all of Britain's children have had enough to eat in the morning to prepare them for school.
(2) We have evaluated three quantitative colorimetric methods [bromthymol blue (BTB), Haskins, and Saker-Salomons (S-S)] for measurement of concentrations of chloroquine (CQ) in urine.
(3) Photograph: Richard Saker Among the design cognoscenti of the period, Braun products were the creme de la creme, the must-have objects.
(4) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer Corbyn ally Emily Thornberry rejoins the shadow cabinet, replacing the pro-Trident shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle, who now moves to become shadow culture secretary.
(5) KB Jason Williamson: ‘It did my head in having to travel an hour for a pint with a friend’ Musician, Sleaford Mods , Nottingham Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jason Williamson (right) of Sleaford Mods: ‘Now that I don’t live there I much prefer it.’ Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer I’ve always viewed London as kind of unobtainable.
(6) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer The limitations imposed by our financial strictures made themselves felt in every arena, from the poxy rates we paid our poor freelancers to the indignities of accessing our office through an “Editors’ Hallway” featuring portraits of the supremos of our landlords, the Daily Mail.
(7) Photograph: Richard Saker McConnell, who describes herself as a veteran of social protest movements of the 80s – Greenham Common and the miners' strike – decided something more serious had to be done.
(8) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Guardian Lives with her partner, a factory worker, and has grown-up children.
(9) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “From the conversations we have had with other community groups trying to save their pubs this [problem with ACVs] is not unique.
(10) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer ‘Labour has just decisively lost an election trying to copy the Conservatives’ He’s the only one who actually talks about child poverty, homelessness, unaffordable housing, progressive taxation, privatisation, and other core issues in a way which resonates with my beliefs.
(11) Photograph: Richard Saker In 2011, Boyega won a British independent film award for most promising newcomer for his turn as Moses in Joe Cornish's well-received sci-fi romp Attack the Block.
(12) Photograph: Richard Saker Making a garden for Nelson Mandela will remain one of my proudest boasts.
(13) Photograph: Richard Saker It's a similar story over at Keyworth primary in Kennington, south London, another outstanding school in an area of high deprivation , which also gets support from Magic Breakfast.
(14) Photograph: Richard Saker Best known for Attack the Block , the 2011 film in which a teenage gang defends their south London block from aliens, Boyega is a 22-year-old actor and presumably a lead in the new Star Wars film.
(15) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer Joy and Tony Watson in Eccles are also catalysts in their own community.
(16) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer One of my personal commitments from the start was to make a home visit to every secondary pupil (our primary head did the same for the primary pupils).
(17) Photograph: Richard Saker The breakfast club at Kingsmead is run with the support of the charity Magic Breakfast , which is involved with around 200 schools' clubs around Britain, and helps supply bagels, cereals and juices as well as technical support.
(18) Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “We’re always thinking up new ways to get a response out of people,” Watt says, sitting in the BrewDog bar in London’s Camden.
(19) The post-Corbyn manoeuvring has already begun Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dan Jarvis: ‘Labour’s Bear Grylls’ Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer “Jeremy has a huge mandate, which we should respect.” This, or a version thereof, is the refrain of dissidents in Brighton, the formula adopted by those who are not aligned with Corbyn but are holding fire – for now, at least.
(20) Saker Nusseibeh, chief executive of Hermes Investment Management, said: “There is no fundamental reason for the market to be in this state … We think it’s because the market is dominated by people who do not invest on fundamental factors.” What's holding back the world economy?