(v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
(v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
(a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(3) A new analog of salmon calcitonin (N alpha-propionyl Di-Ala1,7,des-Leu19 sCT; RG-12851; here termed CTR), which lacks the ring structure of native calcitonin, was tested for biological activity in several in vitro and in vivo assay systems.
(4) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(5) The salmon allele in G. m. morsitans is pleiotropic and profoundly affects many aspects of fly biology including longevity, reproductive capacity, vision, vectorial capacity and duration of flight, but not circadian rhythms.
(6) Addition of extracellular Ca2+ (5 mM CaCl2), a potent osteoclast inhibitor, increased [Ca2+]i in all osteoclasts, but 10(-6) M salmon calcitonin (sCT) did so only in a subpopulation of osteoclasts.
(7) Besides the volume, the acid concentration of gastric juice is reduced, which may explain the high efficacy of salmon calcitonin to prevent ulcer formation in this species.
(8) The presence and distribution of immunoreactive gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in brains of adult male and female Pachymedusa dacnicolor has been studied immunohistochemically using antisera against mammalian, chicken-II, and salmon GnRHs.
(9) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
(10) This study describes the effect of a natural diet, containing salmon as the source of n-3 fatty acids, on these parameters as compared to a diet very low in n-3 fatty acids.
(11) Salmon calcitonin inhibits the algodystrophic process and probably contributes to the activation of the skeletal restoration.
(12) Hypophysectomy of coho salmon (O. kisutch) reduced plasma immunoreactivity to nondetectable levels in seven of eight individuals.
(13) Immunoreactivity of antisera directed against human neuropeptide Y (NPY), anglerfish polypeptide YG (aPY), bovine pancreatic polypeptide (bPP), salmon pancreatic polypeptide (sPP), porcine peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY), and salmon glucagon-like peptide (GLP) was investigated in the endocrine pancreas and anterior intestine of adult lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, by immunohistochemical analysis.
(14) The minimum region in salmon calcitonin (sCT) which induces antigenicity and gastrointestinal disturbances has been identified by examining the cross-reactivity of several sCT fragments and CT analogs with antisera from sCT-treated patients, and by examining inhibition of gastrointestinal motility of these sCT fragments and CT analogs in conscious dogs.
(15) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(16) Anti-salmon prolactin, but not anti-rat or -ovine prolactin, gave a specific staining of the acidophils of the rostral pars distalis (RPD), while anti-trout growth hormone (GH), but not anti-rat GH, stained similar but always separate cells in the proximal pars distalis (PPD).
(17) The side effects attributable to salmon calcitonin were transient nausea (in nine patients), transient flushing (in four), diarrhoea (in two), and rash (in one) though in only one patient did treatment have to be withdrawn prematurely because of these effects.
(18) Isometric contractions of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) gallbladder longitudinal muscle strips were recorded in response to porcine cholecystokinin (CCK), octapeptide of CCK (OP-CCK), desulfated octapeptide of CCK (ds-OP-CCK), porcine heptadecapeptide gastrins I and II, and pentagastrin.
(19) Competition for 125I-salmon calcitonin binding by a wide range of calcitonin analogs revealed a close correspondence between the reported biological potencies and activities in the current system.
(20) Chum salmon (oncorhynchus keta) stanniocalcin was purified, partially identified and tested for bioactivity in an assay on the intestinal calcium uptake in a marine teleost (Gadus morhua).
Saloon
Definition:
(n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
(n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(2) But those involved must consider the risks of their last-chance saloon strategy: 1.
(3) Echoing the former Conservative cabinet minister David Mellor's criticism of the press in the 1980s, he said the report had placed the PCC in the "last chance saloon".
(4) Perth felt like the last-chance saloon for galvanising rhetoric, and Sturgeon has six short months before the general election to prove that her party is a truly progressive alternative to Labour.
(5) Another of this past weekend’s entrants, Jake Quickenden, told Dermot O’Leary that he was in the “last chance saloon”, and that “if I get a no again it’s game over”.
(6) Jake Jackson West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire • While I take Chuka Umunna's point that Nigel Farage too often gives the impression that the saloon bar of a pub is his office, it is a pity that he feels the need to distance Labour from the idea of posing with pints.
(7) Just on the stretch of coast road from Kamaishi to Otsuchi city, there is a four-door saloon wedged in the third-floor window of a primary school, a 25-metre catamaran perched on a building half its size and a 6,000-tonne container ship, the Asian Symphony, rammed through a concrete sea wall and now blocking one lane of the road.
(8) Hodgson had arrived in a Vauxhall Insignia and, to even louder groans, he was asked whether the squad amounted to a sports car or a family saloon.
(9) "There's a decent-sized main cabin, nine guests cabins, a few saloons, a dining room – it's not outrageous," Lürssen said of the yacht.
(10) This government has difficulty in managing a non-story about the chancellor upgrading his ticket on a train, or the stupidity of the former chief whip (who is no toff) behaving like a saloon-bar bore.
(11) At the England squad announcement, which took place at the Luton headquarters of their sponsors Vauxhall, Roy Hodgson was asked if his team was more like a humdrum family saloon or a sports car.
(12) That success prompted JLR to open its first factory in China last year in a £1bn joint venture with state-owned carmaker Chery to capitalise on the burgeoning appetite for its range of 4x4s, luxury saloons and sports cars.
(13) They looked in horror on the new saloons of the expanding cities, with their card games and fist fights, their bad boys and good-time girls.
(14) It makes for a great, if surreal day out, what with tourists texting in the saloon and the music of Ennio Morricone drifting over the car park.
(15) As the former EU commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard, has emphasised , negotiators will be sipping their champagne in the last-chance saloon for UN-led action.
(16) The next version of the luxury Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit to fit all passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
(17) Now, you walk past it on the way to Celtic Park on a match day, barely noticing it but knowing that it exists in the city's folklore as a last-chance saloon.
(18) Newark, the Tories will hope, is Ukip's Stalingrad, the decisive moment when the purple tide is driven back and Nigel Farage's demoralised "People's Army" scatter to weep into their real ale in the nearest saloon bar.
(19) Other new concept cars on show included Renault's electric saloon, the Fluence Zero, a hybrid RCZ by Peugeot and Audi's e-Tron, a high-performance electric sports car.
(20) The presiding judge at the press standards inquiry intervened repeatedly towards the end of Barber's 90 minutes of evidence on Tuesday morning, at one point disagreeing with Barber's proposition that the press was "in the last chance saloon, drinking our last pint".