(a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.
(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.
(a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fat silvery frames wrapping around groups of floors in a vain attempt to break up the sheer bulk, it looks like a stack of hard drives or the back of a computer server – an accidental nod to the nearby Silicon Roundabout.
(2) From the meeting room window, you could sense the corporation's heritage and scale: the immense old grey whale of Television Centre to the south, its 50-year-old curves barnacled with more recent additions; to the west, the long silvery blocks of the BBC's newer "Media Village", opened in 2004, at the peak of the corporation's modern expansion, by Jonathan Ross himself.
(3) They have arranged the new paving into a broad diamond pattern of pale granite on dark, put all the street lighting on to a row of tall, silvery masts.
(4) An odd-looking fellow, with a deep voice, a weather-beaten face and silvery hair, topped by a beret worn in military fashion.
(5) This layer contains a horseshoe-shaped gland, the choroid gland, the outer portion of which is surrounded by a layer of silvery guanin crystals generally termed the argentea.
(6) To examine the changes in secretion of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) with reference to their osmoregulatory roles, changes in pituitary mRNA levels and plasma concentrations of these hormones were examined during seawater adaptation in silvery juveniles (smolts) and precociously mature males (dark parr) of amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus).
(7) Sir John may have hair that is more silvery than ever, and his sky-blue tie shines like the sun on a tropical sea at daybreak, but he still brings a powerful whiff of the past.
(8) It is Patrick Dempsey growing from spindly tween idol into a silvery heartthrob.
(9) In her biography, Dusty , Lucy O’Brien quotes Jerry Wexler, who produced Dusty in Memphis along with Arif Mardin, talking about the uniqueness of her sound: “There were no traces of black in her singing, she’s not mimetic… She has a pure silvery stream.” Silvery, I like that.
(10) Her long blond hair, tied back as usual, has turned silvery grey.
(11) Built on an artificial island, it looks beautiful from above, with all the complexity of an airport resolved into a single silvery object.
(12) Courtesy of Sir Peter Blake He started to do them in a thin, silvery watercolour, which he felt conveyed the essence of a dream, but later adopted a wider palette after realising that his own dreams were in colour.
(13) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(14) Atlantic fronts barrel in, clouds tussle, shafts of sunbeams and great fat silvery pools of light chase over swelling seas to fields of infinite greens.
(15) A silvery thread snakes through paper made from white cotton.
(16) Clad with vertical solar fins designed to protect the interior offices from glare, these silvery slats are stretched open as the building swells upwards, giving it the look of a broad-shouldered banker bursting out of his pin-striped suit – now with deadly laser beam eyes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diego Nazario, back, and Emanuel Dantas Borges, train in the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake, surrounded by dead small silvery fish.
(18) In a recent study by Miceli, Silveri, Romani, and Caramazza (Brain and Language, 1989, 36, 447-492), free speech records for 20 unselected Italian-speaking agrammatic patients were analyzed along a variety of linguistic parameters, with particular emphasis on substitution and omission errors within traditional "part of speech" categories.
(19) Gaze out on to the silvery surf unrolling behind your cruise liner?
(20) An increase in seawater adaptability was observed in silvery juvenile amago salmon as underyearlings from autumn to winter, when some of the wild population migrate to the sea.
Smolt
Definition:
(n.) A young salmon two or three years old, when it has acquired its silvery color.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the effect of long-term adaptation to ration and salinity, Atlantic salmon smolts were acclimated to three salinities (0, 10, and 30 ppt) and four ration levels (0, 0.2, 0.8, and 1.6% wet weight per day) for 6 weeks.
(2) The subnucleus was observed in salmon of different life-stages: in fingerlings, during smolt transformation, after smolt transformation (in seawater), and after spawning.
(3) The following stages were studied: 12-month-old freshwater presmolts, 17-month-old freshwater presmolts, 18-month-old saltwater smolts, 19-month-old saltwater postsmolt, 24-month-old postsmolt, and adult spawners.
(4) Serum cortisol concentrations were measured in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) undergoing the parr-smolt transformation in fresh water, at either 1 year (S1 population) or 2 years (S2 population) after hatching.
(5) To obtain more information on the role of prolactin and growth hormone during the parr-smolt transformation of Atlantic salmon, a population of fish in fresh water was sampled from January to June during two consecutive years.
(6) Increased glycogen and lipid breakdown, and concomitant decreased glycogen and fatty acid synthesis would contribute to the lipid and glycogen depletion observed in salmonid species undergoing parr-smolt transformation.
(7) The status of circulating growth hormone and prolactin during the parr-smolt transformation and during seawater adaptation of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) was investigated in relation to changes in plasma levels of thyroxine, triiodothyronine, and cortisol, and in hypoosmoregulatory ability.
(8) When coho salmon smolts were acclimated to SW, MCR, SR, and plasma level of GH in SW-adapted (2-3 weeks) fish were twice as great as those in fish in FW.
(9) Atlantic salmon presmolts with initially low levels of gill Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity responded to cortisol in vitro, whereas smolts with initially high levels of gill Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity were unresponsive.
(10) To elucidate the ultrastructural modifications of the gill epithelium during smoltification, gills of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were examined by electron microscopy at three stages of this process, which were defined as follows: "parrs" were freshwater fish that had not yet started their transformation; "freshwater smolts" were freshwater fish that were ready to enter seawater; and "seawater smolts" were smolts that had been transferred from fresh water and maintained for 4 days in seawater (35%).
(11) These results implicate thyroid hormones in the expression of adult forms of hemoglobin during the parr to smolt transformation of juvenile salmon.
(12) Smolts exhibited decreases in plasma Na+ levels after 7 days and lower Na+, K+-ATPase activities 14 days after acid exposure.
(13) In animals treated before the parr-smolt transformation was completed (early smolts), thyroxine had no effect on plasma cortisol levels but significantly enhanced the sensitivity of the interrenal to ACTH in vitro.
(14) Guanine levels correlated well with changes in smolt indices, but reached maximum levels up to 1 month earlier than the development of seawater tolerance.
(15) By the smolt stage, the amount of magnetite present in the front of the skull is sufficient to provide the fish with a magnetoreceptor capable of detecting small changes in the intensity of the geomagnetic field.
(16) As the nuclear count per gram of liver is similar in estradiol-treated and untreated groups, estradiol-induced liver growth in the salmon post-smolts may be accounted for by an increase in cell number (hyperplasia) rather than an increase in cell size (hypertrophy).
(17) To examine the changes in secretion of growth hormone (GH) and prolactin (PRL) with reference to their osmoregulatory roles, changes in pituitary mRNA levels and plasma concentrations of these hormones were examined during seawater adaptation in silvery juveniles (smolts) and precociously mature males (dark parr) of amago salmon (Oncorhynchus rhodurus).
(18) The salmon smolt has bilateral retinal projections to the diencephalon and pretectum.
(19) On December 17, the proportion of smolts was 52.8% in the control, whereas T and 11-KT administration inhibited smoltification under the artificially increased daylength.
(20) Smaller smolts showed stable plasma PRL levels after FW transfer, hypocalcemia 48 post-transfer, depressed plasma sodium concentrations, and lowered plasma osmotic pressure.