sprat


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Synonyms for sprat

small fatty European fish

small herring processed like a sardine

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In the last five years, the Patagonian sprat has become the main clupeid species of the pelagic fisheries caught in the inland sea of Chiloe Island.
Now, the sprats are available online, and also sometimes at a certain yellow-and-blue home furnishing store.
The name and concept were Jennifer's, he added, saying she "always thought Jack Sprat was a good name for a restaurant because you could say fat and lean, just like the rhyme.
The fact is that the values of fasting strike to the heart of a person, sharpen the soul to the presence of God, and energize the sprat in a way engorgement never can.
Sprat to catch a mackerel is the phrase that comes to mind.
The film The Yes Men follows Bonanno and Bichlbaum (alias "Andreas Bichlbauer" in Austria, "Hank Hardy Unruh" in Finland, "Kinnithrung Sprat" in Australia, and "Granwyth Hulatberi" on CNBC) around the world as they impersonate WTO representatives.
The main fisheries in the Baltic that are subject to total annual catches are herring, sprat, cod, salmon and plaice.
Also, the amount of authorised fishing gear would be reduced and a sampling system for unsorted industrial herring and sprat catches would be introduced, to improve monitoring.
Kinnithrung Sprat, ne Andy Bichlbaum, joined by a fictitious representative from McDonald's, postulated a "reBurger"--a hamburger patty formed from filtered human waste generated from previously eaten burgers--that could be sold at reduced cost to the Third World.
Maryland scientists are instead trying to rebuild native oyster stocks by building new beds out of shucked oyster shells and seeding them with native sprat, or baby oysters.
Hume's work has been grounded in the late seventeenth century, and there are strong analogies between the principles of enquiry outlined in Reconstructing Contexts and those of Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667).
In this instance, David and his roommate, Gwen, could be the '90s version of Jack Sprat and his wife.
In a slender two-part study of the early modern preface, Kevin Dunn traces the often contentious reception of classical rhetorical theory in the works of Protestant writers (Luther, Milton) and in select exponents of the new science (Bacon, Descartes, Sprat, among others).
The enunciation of an exclusive esprit de corps was central to Bishop Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) and other propaganda works designed to convince the world that the Society (and hence natural philosophy) was polite, while disparaging other sources of opinion (the "vulgar," pedants, and so forth).