Skipjack

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From {Run}.]
     1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
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     2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
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     3. A messenger. --Swift.
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     4. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North.
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     5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat,
        hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
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     6. (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the
        joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the
        strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
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     7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
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     8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase
        the mechanical power of a tackle. --Totten.
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     9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also
        the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
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     10. (Founding)
         (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the
             metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern;
             also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
         (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a
             furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
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     11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
         attached.
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     12. (Zool.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus}) of Florida
         and the West Indies; -- called also {skipjack},
         {shoemaker}, and {yellowtail}. The name alludes to its
         rapid successive leaps from the water.
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     13. (Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
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     14. (Mech.)
         (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or
             polishing a surface of stone.
         (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
             polishing or grinding.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Saurel \Sau"rel\, n. (Zool.)
     Any carangoid fish of the genus {Trachurus}, especially
     {Trachurus trachurus}, or {Trachurus saurus}, of Europe and
     America, and {Trachurus picturatus} of California. Called
     also {skipjack}, and {horse mackerel}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
     A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and
     America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
     {billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack},
     {skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Skipjack \Skip"jack`\, n.
     1. An upstart. [Obs.] --Ford.
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     2. (Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
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     3. (Zool.) 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.
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     4. (Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped
        cross section.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jurel \Ju"rel\, n. (Zool.)
     A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
     ({Caranx chrysos}), most abundant southward, where it is
     valued as a food fish; -- called also {hardtail}, {horse
     crevall['e]}, {jack}, {buffalo jack}, {skipjack}, {yellow
     mackerel}, and sometimes, improperly, {horse mackerel}. Other
     species of {Caranx} (as {Caranx fallax}) are also sometimes
     called jurel. Juridic

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bluefish \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
     1. A large voracious fish ({Pomatomus saitatrix}), of the
        family {Carangid[ae]}, valued as a food fish, and widely
        distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and
        Rhode Island coast it is called the {horse mackerel}, in
        Virginia {saltwater tailor}, or {skipjack}.
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     2. A West Indian fish ({Platyglossus radiatus}), of the
        family {Labrid[ae]}.
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     Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes;
           as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bonito \Bo*ni"to\ (b[-o]*n[=e]"t[-o]), n.; pl. {Bonitoes}
     (-t[-o]z). [Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bain[imac]t and
     bain[imac]th.] [Often incorrectly written {bonita}.] (Zool.)
     1. A large tropical fish ({Orcynus pelamys}) allied to the
        tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four
        brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the
        American coast.
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     2. any of a variety of scombroid fishes of the genera {Sarda}
        or {Euthynnus}, with a size intermediate between those of
        the smaller mackerels and the tunas. It is applied
        especially to the {skipjack tuna} ({Euthynnus pelamis},
        syn. {Katsuwonus pelamis}, formerly {Sarda Mediterranea},
        also called {skipjack}) of the Atlantic, an important and
        abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and
        ({Sarda Chilensis}) of the Pacific, and other related
        species. These are large and active fishes, of a blue
        color above and silver below, with black oblique stripes.
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     3. The medregal ({Seriola fasciata}), an edible fish of the
        southern part of the United States and the West Indies.
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     4. The cobia or crab eater ({Elacate canada}), an edible fish
        of the Middle and Southern United States.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  skipjack
       n 1: oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but
            less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if
            not the same as oceanic bonito [syn: {skipjack tuna}, {Euthynnus
            pelamis}]
       2: medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and
          Pacific waters; less valued than tuna [syn: {Atlantic
          bonito}, {Sarda sarda}]
       3: able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the
          air with a clicking sound [syn: {click beetle}, {snapping
          beetle}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SkipJack
       
           An {encryption} {algorithm} created by the NSA
          (National Security Agency) which encrypts 64-bit blocks of
          data with an 80-bit key.  It is used in the {Clipper} chip, a
          {VLSI} device with an {ARM} processor core, which is intended
          to perform cryptographic operations while allowing the
          security agencies listen in.
       
          There are (apparently) two agencies, both of whom have to
          agree that there is a valid reason to decode a message.  Don't
          laugh, they are serious.
       
          [Algorithm?]
       
          (1995-12-07)