(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.
Shod
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shoe
Example Sentences:
(1) By using a rubber shod Bainbridge type vascular clamp during myomectomy, the uterine blood supply coming from the ovarian artery can be interrupted medial to the ovary, allowing for adnexal perfusion.
(2) Competition experiments with unlabeled compounds shod d that the binding was reversible and saturable as well as stereo- and regiospecific.
(3) It is also hypothesized that the known inability of this arch of the shod foot to deflect without failure (foot rigidity) is responsible for the high injury frequency in shod populations.
(4) This sad and dreary episode, when Finnish soldiers were compelled to fight their former comrades-in-arms, is, for example, the subject of Antti Tuuri's bestselling novel of 2012, Rauta-antura (Iron-shod).
(5) Significant differences between the predominance in shod and unshod children were noted in all age groups, most marked in those with generalised ligament laxity.
(6) Keeping Canvas in its current form would be "catastrophic for small-scale services seeking to promote democratic participation and civil society" as the joint venture partners ride rough-shod over the interests of local communities, the company argues in its 70 page submission.
(7) Oh, and having shod the entire fashion industry in her cult skate sneakers, she revealed next season’s must-have flat: a neat, elasticated white ballet slipper, flat or with a small block heel.
(8) Aristotle offers a very simple example of this: "On he came, his feet shod with his – chilblains."
(9) The freshly shod Hamilton moved past Ricciardo and into second place.
(10) A number of reports indicate an extremely low running-related injury frequency in barefoot populations in contrast to reports about shod populations.
(11) Before surgery the animal wanted to rear after exercise and could not stand on 3 legs for any length of time while being shod.
(12) He was my boss – and when, in his anger at my failure to adequately collate the minutes from last week's interdepartmental steering meeting, he stamped his beautifully shod foot (Church's or possibly even Lobb's) on mine … I orgasmed at once, a nerve-shattering orgasm that curled my hair and curdled the low-fat yoghurt drink that was sitting on a nearby desk.
(13) I call on politicians in both Holyrood and Westminster to do all they can to stop employers like Mr Ashley thinking they can ride rough shod over workers rights.” Under European legislation the Insolvency Service will have to pick up the bill for the 50 workers, but it is only obliged to pay eight weeks’ worth of the compensation to which they are entitled.
(14) I’m very glad that this law firm was able to help the workers involved and call on politicians in both Holyrood and Westminster to do all they can to stop employers like Mr Ashley thinking they can ride rough shod over workers rights.” About 80 workers at the Dundonald warehouse lost their jobs when administrators were called into West Coast Capital (USC), a Sports Direct-controlled entity that owned 28 stores in the retailer’s USC chain.
(15) This paper describes the application of foil strain gauges to the hoof wall, and the use of measuring equipment to monitor weightbearing and changes in hoof shape in shod and unshod horses.
(16) To shorten the period of non-activity, working ponies were shod and the hoof wall defect was packed with technovit or a combination of glue with cotton cuttings.
(17) The distribution of force beneath the plantar foot surface during shod distance running, a kinetic descriptor of locomotion not previously reported, was recorded for ten rearfoot striking runners.
(18) Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.
(19) However, significant differences were observed when barefoot and shod walking were compared.
(20) Normal and abnormal feet, both barefoot and shod, were investigated in sixteen subjects.