(n.) Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
Example Sentences:
(1) A set of Microsoft BASIC and Turbo PASCAL programs that interfaces a microprocessor-controlled stepper motor microscope stage (MDACE 1000) to an IBM PC or PC-AT or compatible microcomputer via a serial interface (RS-232) is described.
(2) Technology – along with turbo-capitalism – seems to me to be hastening the cultural and environmental apocalypse.
(3) Immunochemically, the major common epitope expressed by the neutral fraction glycolipids of the 3 taeniid species is the same or very similar to the glycosphingolipid, neogalatriaosyl ceramide derived from the marine mollusc Turbo cornutus (Gal(beta 1-6) Gal(beta 1-6) Gal(beta 1-1)Cer).
(4) The cadmium-binding proteins were shown to exist in the hepatopancreas of three molluscs, a whelk, Buccinum tenuissimum, a turbo, Batillus cornutus, and a squid, Todarodes pacificus.
(5) A new technique (turbo-FLASH), which combines gradient echo and preparation pulse, has opened the door to a true dynamic (high time resolution) MRI.
(6) We critically evaluated the Nephelometry System (TDx Turbo) for the TDx Analyzer (Turbo), as currently used for immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, and IgM) and transferrin assays.
(7) Claudio Ranieri has said that his initial target of 79 points may not be enough to win the Premier League title, with the Leicester City manager claiming “we have to put a turbo behind us” for the rest of the season to try to surpass the tally he set his players at the halfway stage.
(8) This could change in the future as a result of improvement in signal behavior of the 2D gradient echo (2D GE) sequences and of the use of phonation studies (Turbo-FLASH).
(9) The Renault-powered Red Bull won eight world championships in their glory seasons between 2010-13 but the relationship soured in 2014 when the French engine manufacturer struggled to come to terms with the new turbo hybrid power units.
(10) Local media: “This was low behaviour.” Also unruffled Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb owner Zdravko Mamic – still awaiting trial for fraud and bribery – stripping at a wedding while singing hits from the 80s , including regional turbo-folk classic: “No one can hurt us … We’re stronger than fate, those who don’t like us can only hate.” Mamic denies wrongdoing.
(11) Rattling through the technical details – 4-cylinder, 1.4 litre turbo engine, 6-speed automatic transmission, optional 17-inch wheels, back-up reversing camera, combined average of 25mpg – he moved smoothly to a more general sales pitch.
(12) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
(13) By bout four, the turbo-folk, the strobe lights and the procession of outclassed foreigners was beginning to blur a little.
(14) David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.
(15) We describe a user-friendly software package using Turbo Pascal language under MS-DOS environment for estimating LD50 and LD90 by Logit Analysis with a X2 test of goodness of fit for the model.
(16) An exoglycosidase, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-hexosidase (beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase) from Turbo cornutus, split off 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose amounting to 22.5 and 20.4% of the total weight of JS and N-1 blood-group substances, respectively.
(17) It is based on a decision tree which has been converted into a program written in Turbo-Pascal and can be run on any IBM-compatible computer.
(18) Government fan plan on club strategy to be written into league rules Read more “ The big teams haven’t switched on the turbo yet – and we hope they don’t switch on turbo.” Despite the seven-point cushion for Champions League qualification and the nine-point gap to the final European qualification place in the table, Ranieri still remains guarded about the possibility.
(19) It was three weeks ago that the News of the World dumped a vast archive of data at Scotland Yard's door – a trove that has turbo-charged the Met investigation.
(20) Pounding Chechen turbo-folk ushered the first contestant into the ring.
Turbot
Definition:
(n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California.
(n.) The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.
(n.) The trigger fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, turbot fed [1-14C] 18:1omega9, 18:2omega6, or 18:3omega3 converted only small amounts of labeled fatty acids (3-15%) into fatty acids of longer chain length.
(2) Turbot populations have fallen by nearly a third in the past three decades.
(3) These parameters were also used to investigate the potential of V. anguillarum to amplify in the turbot intestinal tract.
(4) Place the turbot fillets on top and pour the white wine and fish stock on to the fillets.
(5) The anti-rainbow trout MT serum was shown to cross-react totally with MTs from plaice, flounder, turbot, perch, salmon and pike, but exhibited no reactivity towards MTs from human, mouse, rat, worm or crab.
(6) Of more than 400 bacteria isolated from turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), 89 have previously been shown to inhibit the in vitro growth of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum.
(7) Infectivity trials showed that P. piscicida did not possess strict host specificity since the majority of the isolates were virulent for gilthead seabream, rainbow trout and turbot, with LD50 values ranging between 10(3) and 10(6) live cells.
(8) Sprinkle over the diced tomato and chopped parsley and pour over the turbot.
(9) This suggested that turbot, like trout, might be able to use the 18:3 omega 3 as a precursor of the omega 3 series.
(10) All the ECP samples were cytotoxic for fish and homoiothermic cell lines, possessed notable phospholipase activity and displayed haemolytic activity for sheep, salmon and turbot erythrocytes (but not for trout erythrocytes).
(11) Who could resist poached turbot with shrimp sauce, or a properly made Cornish pasty?
(12) At a state banquet of Scottish venison and turbot in Buckingham Palace, Xi repeated a theme he first raised in parliament, stressing Sino-British cooperation during the second world war as a mutually binding experience in which both nations fought side-by-side to uphold justice”, and highlighting the story of a British journalist and schoolteacher, George Hogg, who reported on “the atrocities committed by the Japanese atrocities”.
(13) By combining several methods, including enzyme electrophoresis, we show that this species is found only in turbot.
(14) The use of high-performance anion-exchange chromatography on a Mono Q column for isolation of a glycolipophosphoprotein, vitellogenin, from turbot plasma has been evaluated.
(15) 29 & 31 Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BN; 01225 448748, finecheese.co.uk Fish for Thought Not only is all their fish ethically sourced, but Cornish fishmongers Fish for Thought has won a slew of awards for its lobster, turbot, bream, scallops and many more.
(16) Biochemical characteristics of five rotavirus-like viruses isolated from striped bass (Morone saxatilis), turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), smelt (Osmerus mordax) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in North America and Europe were compared.
(17) In the eastern Mediterranean, the copepod Lepeophtheirus thompsoni Baird, 1850, has been reported to infest turbot, brill and flounder.
(18) During a three years survey, a total of 149 samples from 20 farms of rainbow trout, salmon and turbot were examined for the presence of virus with the purpose to study the viral infections affecting cultured fish and their incidence in the fishfarms of Northwestern Spain.
(19) In another experiment, a stenohaline seawater fish, the turbot, was adapted to diluted 5% saltwater and to fresh water.
(20) The indole formation in shrimps, herring, and turbot, held under different storage conditions, is compared with other common quality indices such as TBA-value and alpha-tocopherol content.