(n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
(n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
(n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
(n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
(n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
(n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
(v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
(v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
(v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
(v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
Example Sentences:
(1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(6) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(7) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(8) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
(9) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(10) Russell is a former director of Northern Rock while Crosby is the former chief executive of HBOS.
(11) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(12) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(13) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(14) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(15) Emotional reactivity of patients with endogenous depression and healthy test subjects towards classic and rock music was compared.
(16) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(17) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
(18) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(19) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(20) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
Rockfish
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.
(n.) The striped bass. See Bass.
(n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.
(n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parallel tests were conducted on larval nematodes in 16 whole (round) salmon, 16 dressed salmon (heads and viscera removed), and 32 whole (round) rockfish.
(2) n. was found in the urinary bladders of the oliver rockfish, Sebastes serranoides; quillback rockfish, S. maliger; striped surfperch, Embiotoca lateralis; and pile surfperch, Damalichthys vacca.
(3) Comparative features of mature spores showed that they were similar to those of Henneguya sebasta Moser and Love 1975, from the bulbus arteriosus of seven species of California rockfish, Sebastes.
(4) D-[3H]glucose transport properties of brush-border membrane vesicles (BBMV) of upper intestine and pyloric ceca of the Pacific copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus) were characterized and compared.
(5) Salmon were infected with 1,245 of these larvae, and rockfish with 2,300.
(6) n. was found on the bulbus and truncus arteriosus and in the heart chambers of 7 species of marine rockfish, Sebastes, from central and southern California.
(7) Prostaglandin (PG) syntheses from labelled highly unsaturated fatty acids were investigated in washed thrombocyte suspensions of four species of marine fish, flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus), black seabream (Acanthopagrus schlegeli), black rockfish (Sebastes schlegeli), and red seabream (Pagrus major).
(8) [1-14C]linolenic acid was injected into the rainbow trout, Salmo gairdnerii, ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis, eel, Anguilla japonica, red sea bream, Chrysophrys major, rockfish, Sebastiscus marmoratus, globefish, Fugu rubripes rubripes and prawn, Penaeus japonicus (molting stage D"1-D2), and the bioconversion of linolenic acid (18:3 omega 3) to highly unsaturated fatty acids such as eicosapentaenoic (20:5 omega 3) and docosahexaenoic (22:6 omega 3) acids was investigated.
(9) The solution was tested on fish (mullet, rockfish, and barracuda) lens nuclei, which produced weak extracts with other extraction media.
(10) Six genera and 15 species, 2 new, of myxosporida were recovered from 14 species of California marine rockfish, Sebastes.
(11) Sixty-four fish were blast-frozen to -35 C for 15 hr to determine the effects of commercial blast-freezing on the viability of third-stage larvae of Anisakis simplex encapsulated in the muscle and viscera of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger).
(12) The 6 live worms, 2 from salmon and 4 from rockfish rounds, were recovered from muscle 1 hr after freezing; they were slightly motile and showed severe internal damage.
(13) The unattractive appearance of Kudoa cysts in rockfish filets detracted from their commercial value.
(14) n. is described from three of 15 black rockfish (Sebastes melanops).
(15) Linolenic acid was converted to 20:5 omega 3 and 22:6 omega 3 intensively in the rainbow trout, moderately in the ayu, eel and prawn, but slightly in the red sea bream, rockfish and globefish.
(16) The pathogenesis of two histozoic myxosporidans, Henneguya sebasta and Kudoa clupeidae, was studied from the Pacific rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis.
(17) The tapeworm prevalence was 84% of 354 rockfish in the coastal waters of Southern and Central California.
(18) Norepinephrine (NOR) is a potent activator of carbohydrate metabolism in isolated hepatocytes from copper rockfish (Sebastes caurinus), increasing rates of glycogenolysis fourfold with an EC50 of 6.3 nM.
(19) After blast-freezing, 4 in-the-round salmon, 4 dressed salmon, and 8 in-the-round rockfish were examined at 1, 24, 48, and 72 hr.
(20) The two steps in bile acid conjugation have been studied in subcellular fractions of liver from three species of fish; vermillion rockfish, canary rockfish and ling codfish.