(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
Example Sentences:
(1) New Jaguars owner Shad Khan said when he bought the team that he wanted to make a "splash" in free agency.
(2) So part of what Shad will be tasked for at Arsenal, and what we were tasked for with the DFB, is to integrate.
(3) Shad genuinely cares and will work extremely hard player by player, peer to peer, to help execute the vision Mr Wenger has laid out.
(4) In the present study, a cytostatic tumor growth inhibitory peptide and a tumor growth promoting peptide with molecular weights of 20,000-30,000 Da have been identified in the supernatant fraction of unfertilized ova from Shad.
(5) From Denis MacShane: Bumped into 2 shad cab Tories in Indian rest.
(6) The dead twaite shad, small whitish gray fish, were discovered Tuesday by inspectors conducting routine water testing in Rio’s sewage and rubbish-filled Guanabara Bay.
(7) Same old Arsenal in that sense and something that was meant to become less so following the summer appointment of the fitness expert Shad Forsythe , a key component of Germany’s World Cup-winning triumph in Brazil .
(8) By blocking the rivers and silting up the spawning beds, they helped bring to an end the gigantic runs of migratory fish that were once among our great natural spectacles and which fed much of Britain – wiping out sturgeon , lampreys and shad , as well as most sea trout and salmon.
(9) PCB residues exceeding the tolerance level of Health and Welfare Canada were found in the following: from Lake Saint Clair, smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui) in 1975 and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) in 1971; from Lake Erie, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in 1970, smallmouth bass, alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), and gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) in 1971, and white bass in 1971 and 1976.
(10) 20 Fenchurch Street has DESTROYED the view through Tower Bridge from Shad Thames area.
(11) Tower 42 featured in the BBC’s Sherlock TV series, as Shad Shanderson, the financial institution used in the Blind Banker episode.
(12) We are now going to invest, in this case with Shad.
(13) Two subjects each were exposed to pressure equivalents of 50 (SHAD I) and 60 (SHAD II) feet of sea water gauge (FSWG) for 30 and 28 d, respectively.
(14) Unfertilized ova from Shad, a North Atlantic herring, contains a cytostatic inhibitor of T lymphocyte blastogenesis.
(15) Shad Forsythe Has held many roles in training, including at the US Olympic Training Centre in San Diego.
(16) "For dinner I order the shad-roe ravioli with apple compote as an appetiser and the meat loaf with chèvre and quail-stock sauce for an entrée".
(17) It is found in certain series where primary tumors and pulmonary metastase shad been seperately studied.
(18) At least 30,000 salmon and tens of thousands of shads, lampreys and sea trout use the estuary to reach spawning grounds in the Usk and Wye rivers.
(19) Shad Forsythe, a new fitness coach at Arsenal – headhunted to invigorate their training regime – was one of four specialists who were embedded with Joachim Löw’s team every step, every stretch, every session of the way at the World Cup.
(20) Significantly higher levels of six organochlorine residues were found in the gonad tissue of striped bass; however, similar studies on gonad tissue of American Shad, harvested from the same region, show no such enhancement.
Shan
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The results showed that the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" used in different regions in China at present are the roots or rhizomes derived from 9 species: Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.
(2) The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
(3) "Since the elections there have been three broken ceasefires, with the Kachin, Karen and Shan minorities, a massive increase in army attacks on ethnic groups, and a sharp rise in gang rapes involving women and children.
(4) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
(5) Ion-pairing extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) were employed for assaying moniliformin (a fungal toxin) content in the corn (Shaanxi) and rice (Yunnan) samples collected from families suffering from Ke-shan disease.
(6) Later, Shanly told the group in a posting: “Sorry for being expressive, apologise for any offence.” Shanly told the Times on Tuesday that he regretted the comments he made, adding: “I completely reject the accusation of bullying and I am sure those who know me from my many years of activity in the movement would know that such a label is absurd.” Momentum is open to people who are not Labour members, and some MPs who do not support Corbyn are alarmed by its rise because they fear it will enable people previously involved in far-left groups outside Labour to exercise influence in the party.
(7) In lowland (760 m above sea level) and highland (3200 m above sea level) of Tien Shan, the measurements of blood pressure and blood flow in the large vessels as well as the mass of heart ventricles of 75 rabbits have been made.
(8) It was found that at 760 m and 2800 m (Tien-Shan) a chemoreflex mechanism maintains 13 to 18% of the total volume of eupnoic ventilation regardless of the age of the subject studied.
(9) were found in the land mollusks Bradybaena duplocincta and Jaminia potaniniana asiatica collected on the slopes of Tien-Shan.
(10) It was shown that the high-altitude conditions of the Pamirs and Tien Shan (2800-3600 m above the sea-level) modified the clinicofunctional signs and a course of the cor pulmonale (CP) in chronic bronchitis.
(11) Tai Shan's arrival brought 500,000 new visitors to the zoo in 2005, the director, Dennis Kelly, said.
(12) An epidemiologic study of 40- to 59-year-old males was carried out in order to assess the effect of ethnic characteristics and migration from high-altitude (2,000-3,500 m above sea-level) Tien Shan areas to Frunze (760 m above sea-level) and vice versa on the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and coronary risk factors.
(13) As the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" derived from different species has different actions and dosages, it is necessary to give different names to different species and use them correctly.
(14) Hemoacupuncture also was applied to Shan-gen, bilateral ear tip, and bulb points.
(15) He ventures out at night to spend time with his boy, telling Constance: "I shan't be back till late.
(16) Owing to security reasons, the Union Election Commission has cancelled voting in several hundred villages across the states of Kachin, Karen, Mon and Shan, and the Bago region.
(17) As many as 132 patients with bronchial asthma were examined for the clinical, functional and laboratory parameters before and during alpine climatotherapy at a height of 3200 m above the sea level (the Tyuya-Ashu pass, the northern Tien Shan).
(18) To demonstrate the progress made in the family medicine clinic at the Chung Shan Medical College Hospital and to evaluate the appropriateness of this kind of family practice setting, our patient population of 616 was investigated.
(19) An outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease (LD) in a college in Tang Shan in the winter of 1987 was reported.
(20) The epidemic levels of CVD in Ning-Xia and Shan-Xi were the highest, Its epidemic levels in the urban areas were higher than those in the rural areas.