(n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
(n.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that changes in pH following temperature changes can be accounted for solely by the passive, in vitro behaviour of the chemical buffer system found in the blood, so that active regulatory mechanisms of pH adjustment need not be postulated for skipjack tuna.
(2) Six samples of canned tuna, albacore, yellowfin, and skipjack, in water or oil pack were analyzed in duplicate by a fluorometric method and the AOAC colorimetric method.
(3) By means of a simple procedure involving two gel filtrations and an ion-exchange chromatography, alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase was purified to an electrophoretically homogeneous form from skipjack liver, in which the enzyme is the dominant glycosidase.
(4) During hypoxia, skipjack and yellowfin tunas show a decrease in heart rate and increase in ventilation volume, as do other teleosts.
(5) Among the muscles of six fish species, three mammals, and a bird, white muscle of skipjack tuna showed the highest buffering capacity (BC) in the pH range 6.5-7.5, followed by the muscle of little-piked whale, chicken pectoralis minor, and mackerel white muscle.
(6) A method was developed to obtain heavy meromyosin (HMM) from the tryptic digest of skipjack tuna dorsal myosin.
(7) These results suggest that skipjack alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase exists as an active dimer at acidic pH and as inactive monomer at neutral or alkaline pH.
(8) On eating preparations of a particular variety of fish, the skipjack (bonito), patients with tuberculosis on isoniazid repeatedly developed symptoms very similar to those of histamine poisoning.
(9) This occurs at a higher inhalant water PO2 (between 130 and 90 mmHg) in skipjack tuna than in yellowfin tuna (between 90 and 50 mmHg).
(10) A high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for simultaneous determination of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC), vitamin D3 and 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH-D3) in tissues of fishes was established, and using this method the tissue distribution of the sterols in lamprey (Entosphenus japonicus), great blue shark (Prionace glauca), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) and albacore (Thunnus alalunga) was investigated.
(11) The results suggest that large quantities of vitamin D3 in the liver of skipjack and albacore are supplied by other biosynthetic routes or by intake of vitamin D3 rather than by photochemical biosynthesis.
(12) The effects of temperature change (in vitro) on acid-base balance of skipjack tuna blood were investigated.
(13) Histidine was found in great quantities in all species except swordfish, anserine was found in relatively large amounts in tunas and swordfish, but carnosine was only present in small amounts in yellowfin and skipjack tunas.
(14) In these circumstances the high histamine content of skipjack and the interference by isoniazid with the metabolism of the amine presumably play complementary roles in the production of histamine poisoning; each of these factors by itself is apparently inadequate to produce such intoxication.
(15) Lactate and glucose turnover rates were measured by bolus injection of [U-14C]lactate and [6-3H]glucose in cannulated lightly anesthetized skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis.
(16) Compounds mutagenic toward Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 in the presence of rat-liver homogenates (S9) were formed when fish flesh was fried at 199 degrees C. Three species of Hawaiian fish commonly consumed in Hawaii (skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus pelamis; yellowfin tuna, Neothunnus macropterus; and milkfish, Chanos chanos) were cooked in an electric skillet, along with samples of sole (Microstomus pacificus).
(17) The symptoms and the circumstances leading to the reactions are almost identical with those previously reported with another variety of tropical fish, the skipjack or bonito.
(18) When correcting for body mass and temperature, skipjack tuna has at least as high or even higher lactate turnover rates than those recorded for mammals.
(19) Skipjack was found to contain probably the highest concentration of histamine reported in fish.
(20) In dried skipjack meat and salted salmon eggs, umami substances such as Glu and inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) were found to be important contributors to their tastes as well.
Upstart
Definition:
(v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.
(n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
(n.) The meadow saffron.
(a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then in May, the upstart New Democratic Party won a stunning victory in Alberta’s provincial elections , ending 44 years of Conservative rule.
(2) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(3) The part played by the two men in the ousting of well-respected chairman David Plowright the following year earned them a stinging rebuke from John Cleese, whose fax famously read "fuck off out of it, you upstart caterer".
(4) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(5) In a food retail market that currently favours the discount Davids over the grocery Goliaths, one particular upstart has put in a storming performance over the past six months.
(6) Malcolm Turnbull: three things we need to know about our new prime minister Read more And here the upstart was, the leader of the federal parliamentary Liberal party .
(7) Rush treated him as upstart who knew little of life in Chicago's poor, African-American neighbourhoods.
(8) Next year, a new force will try to join the mix, an upstart party called the Pirates, which has made striking gains in four state elections so far.
(9) Cavendish does not seem overly perturned, rolling along towards the front of the peloton, satisfied that his team-mates will reel in the upstarts and set the stage for a sprint finish.
(10) My novel The Upstart is based on my experiences of the snobbery of worrying about saying the wrong thing.
(11) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
(12) "They said: 'How could a young upstart who isn't transgender play the part seriously?'"
(13) Dorky prop-comic Spencer Jones, now a star of Shakespeare sitcom Upstart Crow, brings back his 2015 hit show Proper Job alongside his new one, Eggy Bagel.
(14) The mayor is a member of a protest group turned upstart party called Vetëvendosje ("self-determination"), while the landfill director is the brother of a powerful member of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) who is close to the prime minister, Hashim Thaçi.
(15) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(16) In fact, in 2008 the Democratic party split in half during their primary, almost annihilating both Hillary Clinton and upstart Barack Obama in the process.
(17) "When the upstart is too successful, somehow the old interests surface, and restrictions on growth are proposed or imposed," he said.
(18) Just days into the new year Tesco and Morrisons were forced to warn that profits would be lower than expected amid heavy competition from their upstart rivals.
(19) He was always a bit of a social upstart in an English theatre world full of great families, a self-made actor with no advantages, dependent on a very spiritual stillness and charisma.
(20) As a Latino, Cruz helps Texas Republicans to woo an increasingly important and left-leaning demographic while retaining traditional conservative values – even though he comes across as an upstart outsider.