(n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
(n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
(n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
(n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
(n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
(n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
(n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
(n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
(n.) Any cursorial bird.
(n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
(n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Example Sentences:
(1) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(2) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(3) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
(4) In combined groups of male runners and controls, there was a highly significant positive correlation between the serum HDL-cholesterol level and the LPL activity of adipose tissue expressed per tissue weight (r = +0.72, p less than 0.001) or per whole body fat (r = +0.62, p less than 0.001).
(5) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
(6) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(7) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
(8) The runners showed less rapid eye-movement activity during sleep than the nonrunners under both experimental conditions, indicating a strong and unexpected effect of physical fitness on this measure.
(9) Blade Runner: the Final Cut is re-released on 3 April
(10) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
(11) We tested the hypothesis that the neuroendocrine control of gonadotropin secretion is altered in certain women distance runners with secondary amenorrhea.
(12) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(13) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
(14) Runner up: Newcastle University A project inspired by the childhood game Kerplunk is being used to slow the flow of water in order to improve water quality and reduce flood risk for a Northumberland town hit by floods in recent years.
(15) The middle distance runners were all highly trained, but had significantly slower performance times than the elite runners at distances greater than 3 miles.
(16) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(17) The athletes were mostly volley ball players, jumpers or runners.
(18) The runners were divided into 2 groups: group A, who competed the 160 km within 24 hours and group B, who either ran for 24 hours, or who retired before completing the distance.
(19) The effects of L-carnitine on respiratory chain enzymes in muscle of long distance runners were studied in 14 athletes.
(20) Further, previous work has, almost exclusively, examined male runners.
Yellowtail
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon.
(n.) The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
(n.) The menhaden.
(n.) The runner, 12.
(n.) A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).
(n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).
Example Sentences:
(1) The GH was monitored by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and by immunoblotting with yellowtail GH antiserum at each step of purification.
(2) In order to investigate the causative factors responsible for removal of mucous coat from the gill lamellae of young yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata by red tide, diazo-reactions were employed for planktons and their media.
(3) Specifically, the yellowtail antifreeze protein, in contrast to that of the winter flounder, contains a fourth 11-amino-acid repeat and lacks several of the hydrophilic residues that have been postulated to aid in the binding of the protein to ice crystals.
(4) The cDNA encoding the major serum antifreeze protein in the yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea) was cloned from liver tissue.
(5) Piscine retinol-binding protein was isolated from pooled plasma of young yellowtails and was converted (1000-fold purification) to a homogeneous component by a procedural sequence that included gel filtration on Sephadex G-100, chromatography on SP-Sephadex, gel isoelectric focusing, and, finally, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(6) Metabolic and vascular adaptation of teleost lateral propulsive musculature to an active mode of life was investigated in four pelagic teleosts (mackerel, yellowtail scad, pilchard and Australian salmon).
(7) To extend these observations, both the characteristics of PYY-receptor interaction and the structure of the receptor have been examined and compared with those of its sister peptide, neuropeptide Y (NPY), in the brains of various vertebrates including mammals (human, dog, guinea pig, rat, and mouse), birds (chicken), reptiles (snapping turtle), amphibians (bullfrog), and fish (yellowtail fish).
(8) An unknown bilirubin conjugate was detected by HPLC analysis in the bile of yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata.
(9) The average activity was highest with rat neurons and lowest with yellowtail neurons.
(10) The temperature dependence of RBC deformability was much smaller in comparison with those previously observed in yellowtail and carp; salmon RBCs were still highly deformable even at 5 degrees C, a possible temperature of cold river water.
(11) However, the bonito GH antiserum as well as yellowtail GH antiserum exhibited hormone specificity but not species specificity in immunoblotting.
(12) Presence of N-terminal peptide ("difference peptide") in alkali light chain 1 (A1) of fish fast skeletal myosin was examined by comparing two kinds of light chain-based myosin subfragment 1 (S1) isozymes from the yellowtail Seriola quinqueradiata.
(13) The morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics of twelve "Pasteurella" piscicida strains isolated from white perch and yellowtail are described and the present uncertain taxonomic status of the organisms is discussed.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A large school of yellowtail surgeonfish on the reef off Cabo Pulmo Photograph: Alamy There’s an incredible duality to tribal life .
(15) In sharp contrast, vitamin A-containing proteins in plasma from larvae of bullfrogs as well as three fishes (carp, blue sharks, and young yellowtails) appeared to be present in plasma as monomeric retinol-binding proteins without any affinity to human prealbumin.
(16) Alignment of the cod GH sequence with those of other teleost GHs reveals cod GH to be most similar to advanced marine fish such as tuna, sea bream, bonito, and yellowtail (76-83% identity), whereas it is 62-66% identical to flounder and chum salmon GH.
(17) Red tide cells exposed to fish gill mucus from young yellowtail resulted in the release of a large number of mucocysts and a weak luminosity, and showed a strong reduction of cytochrome c in the medium.
(18) The organization of antifreeze protein (AFP) genes in the yellowtail flounder was investigated by Southern blotting and the characterization of clones from a genomic library.
(19) Elastase-like enzymes were detected as zymogens in all of the pancreatic extracts from the gummy shark, bullhead shark, angel shark, smooth hammerhead, bestel, rainbow trout, carp, eel, Japanese mackerel, yellowtail, sea bass, parrotfish, bullfrog, chicken, bluewhite dolphin, hog, rat, cat, and dog.
(20) For syntheses of recombinant yellowtail and flounder growth hormones (r-yGH and r-fGH) in E. coli, expression plasmids were constructed.