What's the difference between thunny and tunny?

Thunny


Definition:

  • (n.) The tunny.

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Tunny


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their target was a system known as Tunny, which carried messages between Hitler and members of his high command, as well as Mussolini.
  • (2) "The club have received a bid from Wolfsburg but we're keen to keep Tunny if we can," Pulis said.
  • (3) An investigation of five kinds of sea-fishes--of mackerel, herring, cod, tunny, and plaice--that are most frequently put on the market showed that a permitted value up to 1 mg As per 1 kg of fish meat was found only in 24.0% of mackerel, 9.5% of herring, 33.4% of cod, 57.0% of plaice and 0.0% of tunny.
  • (4) The total animal population percentage composition, found during period May-August 1979 on tunny-fishing coco-fibres nets in Camogli (Genoa), has been valued in relation to the depth.
  • (5) Consumption of plaice, pighvar and tunny resulted in a 2-fold increase, and consumption of mussels produced a 6-fold increase in the urinary level of hydride-generating arsenic compounds.
  • (6) We worked for three years on Tunny material and were breaking – at a conservative estimate – just under 64,000 top-line messages."
  • (7) The Tunny traffic was produced by a Lorenz CZ cryptography machine which the Bletchley Park mathematicians were able to replicate without ever seeing it.
  • (8) The major mutagens produced in the bonito, tunny and mackerel meats heated without charring at 100 degrees C for 48 h and at 220 degrees C for 15 min were found to be MeIQx and 4,8-DiMeIQx.
  • (9) The values of a majority of studied sea-fish samples ranged from 1 to 2 mg As per 1 kg: 52% of mackerel, 63.5% of herring, 66.6% of cod, 43% of tunny, 28% of plaice.

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