What's the difference between shark and squaloid?

Shark


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
  • (v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
  • (v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
  • (v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
  • (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
  • (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
  • (3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
  • (4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
  • (5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
  • (6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
  • (7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
  • (8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
  • (11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
  • (12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
  • (13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
  • (14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
  • (15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
  • (16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
  • (17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
  • (18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
  • (19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
  • (20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.

Squaloid


Definition:

  • (a.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results showed 2 main patterns of coronary arterial arrangement: the dorsoventral coronary trunk pattern, shared by lamnoid and advanced carcharhinoid sharks, and the lateral coronary trunk pattern, shown by hexanchoid and squaloid sharks.
  • (2) The immunological distances observed were used to build a tree that confirms that the squaloid and galeoid species examined belong to two separate groups and that Heterodontus, a genus of hitherto uncertain position, belongs with the galeoids.

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