bottom feeder meaning words
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- Definition of bottom–feeder. 1  1 : a fish that feeds at the bottom. 2  2 : one that is of the lowest status or rank. 3  3 : an opportunist who seeks quick profit usually at the expense of others or from their misfortune.
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feeder feed•er. 1. a person or thing that supplies food or feeds something. 2. a bin or boxlike device from which farm animals may eat, esp. such a device allowing a number of chickens to feed simultaneously. 3. a person or thing that takes food or nourishment. 4. a person or device that feeds a machine.
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- The catfish is a bottom feeder and one of the best at what it does. There are records worldwide of these fish being recorded at 500 lbs and its ridiculous. The catfish has an elastic type body style which enables it to just keep growing. A large catfish might be 20 pounds to some and another could be 400 pounds.
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- noun gob·let \ˈgä-blət\. : a container used for drinking liquids that has a round bowl on top of a stem attached to a flat base.
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- NOTE: The gorget is the brilliantly colored area on the throat of a male hummingbird. Distal means outward part and proximal means inward part. A feather consists of many tiny sub-feathers, called barbs. The barbs consist of many tiny sub-feathers called barbules. Barbicels are tiny hooks that hold the barbules together.
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- Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms: 1  decreased, reduced(adj) made less in size or amount or degree. 2  reduced, rock-bottom(adj) well below normal (especially in price) Synonyms:
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Filter feeder Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.heir baleen plates are narrow and very long — up to 4 m (13 ft) in bowheads — and accommodated inside the enlarged lower lip which fits onto the bowed upper jaw. As the right whale swims, a front gap between the two rows of baleen plates lets the water in together with the prey, while the baleens filter out the water.
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Gob Via late Middle English from Old French gober (“swallow, gulp”), from Irish and/or Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, bill”), from Gaulish *gobbo. See also gobbet. (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
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- Definition of bottom–feeder. 1 : a fish that feeds at the bottom. 2 : one that is of the lowest status or rank. 3 : an opportunist who seeks quick profit usually at the expense of others or from their misfortune.
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- To remove browned bits of food from the bottom of a pan after sauteing, usually meat. After the food and excess fat have been removed from the pan, a small amount of liquid is heated with the cooking juices in the pan and stirred to remove browned bits of food from the bottom.
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Top, bottom and versatile Top, bottom and versatile. In human sexuality, top, bottom and versatile are sex positions during sexual activity, especially between two men. A top is usually a person who penetrates, a bottom is usually one who receives penetration, and a versatile engages in both activities or is open to engaging in either activity. These terms may be elements of self-identity that indicate an individual's usual preference, but might also describe broader sexual identities. Top, bottom and versatile are also used in BDSM to describe si
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Definitions &Translations Bottomry(noun) a contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully.
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- 1 discarded or useless material the stray dogs were looking for leftover food in the family's garbage Synonyms chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck (also drek), dross, dust, effluvium (also effluvia), junk, litter, offal, offscouring, raffle, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, spilth, trash, truck, waste Related Words crud, sewage, slop, swill, wash; ...
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- Historical Examples. 1  It is very largely a bottom feeder and, therefore, rather of a sluggish nature. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast Harry Thom Payne. 2  The barbel projecting from the chin denotes that it is a bottom feeder. The Sea Shore William S. Furneaux.
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Hematophagy Gatekeeper butterflies (Pyronia tithonus) sucking fresh blood from a sock. Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima blood and φάγειν phagein to eat).
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- Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Tophet. tō′fet, n. a place at the south-east corner of Gehenna, or vale of Hinnom, to the south of Jerusalem, once the scene of idolatrous rites, later the common lay-stall of the city, in which fires were kept burning: the future place of torment for the damned.
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- Currently HLS supports AES-128 encryption using 16-octet keys. There are three ways in which encryption can be applied: using an existing key, using a randomly generated key, or using a new key that’s generated for every X number of video segments.
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What is a nabothian cyst? Causes of nabothian cysts. Nabothian cysts form when the mucus-producing glands in your cervix are coated with skin cells and become clogged. The skin cells plug the glands, which causes mucus to accumulate. This causes a cyst to form on the cervix that looks like a small, white bump. Childbirth and physical trauma to the cervix can cause nabothian cysts in some women. During childbirth, excess skin cells can grow on the mucus gland and trap mucus, causing cysts to form.
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- crumbs tidbits leftovers morsels. the bag of chips were already eaten, but i will go ahead and finish the grunions on the bottom of the bag. #crumbs#tidbits#morsels#leftovers#pieces. by sexy redhead March 27, 2007.
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ground 1 Music. ground bass. Nautical. the bottom of a body of water. the earth's solid or liquid surface; land or water. Carpentry. a strip of wood to which woodwork can be attached, set flush with the plaster finish of a room. a strip of wood or length of corner bead used at an opening as a stop for plasterwork.
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Top, bottom and versatile (July 2015) In human sexuality, top, bottom and versatile are sex positions during sexual activity, especially between two men. A top is usually a person who penetrates, a bottom is usually one who receives penetration, and a versatile engages in both activities or is open to engaging in either activity.
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- 1. 1  Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability. 2  Literary. a ship or boat.
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Definitions &Translations Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Tophet In the Hebrew Bible Tophet or Topheth was a location in Jerusalem, in the Valley of Hinnom, where worshipers influenced by the Canaanite Pantheon sacrificed children to the gods Moloch and Baal by burning them alive.
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bottom feeder Historical Examples. 1  It is very largely a bottom feeder and, therefore, rather of a sluggish nature. 2  The barbel projecting from the chin denotes that it is a bottom feeder. 3  It is a bottom feeder, and sinkers must be used to keep the bait near the fish.  As it is a bottom feeder a sinker must be used to keep the bait at the proper depth.
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feed verb (used with object), fed, feeding. 1. to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child. 2. to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.
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- The word BILTONG is formed from the Dutch words BIL (meaning meat buttock or hind quarter) and 'TONG meaning strip. So it's just that-a strip of meat. For centuries mankind has preserved meat. Ancient seafarers pickled meat in large wooden barrels and devoured this during the long months they were at sea.