(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.
Shelter
Definition:
(n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
(n.) One who protects; a guardian; a defender.
(n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
(v. t.) To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.
(v. t.) To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
(v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To take shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(3) Housing charity Shelter puts the shortage of affordable housing in England at between 40,000 and 60,000 homes a year.
(4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(6) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(7) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(8) Around a third of Gaza's 1.8 million people have been displaced, many now living in United Nations shelters.
(9) Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighbouring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.
(10) The UK donated £114m which funded shelter for 1.3 million people and clean water for 2.5 million.
(11) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(13) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
(14) An unwanted pregnancy is one more nightmare for a displaced woman; campaigners argue that contraception and access to safe abortion should be treated with the same urgency as water, food and shelter.
(15) She is just one of many people who have contacted Shelter about cuts to SMI payments.
(16) After leaving the RCA, the pair continued to work on the idea of shelters that could be dropped into disaster zones or areas of military conflict and swiftly assembled.
(17) The discrimination in the policy of successive South African governments towards African workers is demonstrated by the so-called 'civilised labour policy' under which sheltered, unskilled government jobs are found for those white workers who cannot make the grade in industry, at wages which far exceed the earnings of the average African employee in industry.
(18) The quality of the re-insertion also depends on the care possibilities available to the patient: sectorial follow-up, job-aid centre, sheltered workshops, associative apartments, leisure.
(19) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
(20) The only way for the government to turn this crisis around is to urgently invest in genuinely affordable homes Campbell Robb, Shelter The Land Registry – whose data is viewed by many as the most comprehensive and accurate – said the typical price of a home reached £181,619 in June.