2016年8月3日 星期三

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Octopuses are born - Have you ever seen thousands of octupus babies hatching
In early spring, octopuses move closer to the shore to mate. Two months after mating, the female releases 100,000-500,000 eggs. She spends her time cleaning the eggs, providing oxygen by squirting water, and fending off predators.



Behind Those Cool Squirts in Summer, Many Plumbers
By LISA W. FODERARO

The parks department's 43 plumbers must battle stolen parts, children's pranks and nature to keep the city's 3,114 drinking fountains providing fresh water to the masses.
A Squirt of Insulin May Delay Alzheimer’s
A movie palace (or picture palace in the UK) is a term used to refer to the large, elaborately decorated movie theaters built between the 1910s and the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opened every year between 1925 and 1930.





Coronation Picture Palace (London)

  • Theatre ID
    2559
  • Built / Converted
    1911
  • Dates of use
    • 1911 - 1938
  • Current state
    Extant
  • Current use
    converted to other use (snooker club on lower floor)
  • Address
    High Street North, Manor Park, Newham, London, E12, England

Details

The Coronation opened in 1911, but was extended in 1921. The auditorium lies parallel to High Street North with entrance approached by steps on the right side. Plain, rendered elevation to street with the name CORONATION on upper level at each end. The interior has a barrel-vault ceiling with ornate plasterwork, echoed on the balcony front. It had a fully-equipped stage, get-in and dressing room facilities and operated a cinéariety policy until 1938. In 1932 a Morgan & Smith two manual organ was installed. During the 1960s it became a Mecca Bingo Club until 1985 when it was converted to a snooker club, with a false ceiling extending from under the balcony area, which is now disused.


But a friend of his said the brewing techniques could make a difference. “When you see them pull a carton of something out of the refrigerator, it reminds me I’m paying $5 for a squirt of liquid and milk,” said Hannah Boyd, 16, who lives on the Upper East Side.
She helped herself to three free samples.


squirt
  • [skwə'ːrt]
(skwûrtpronunciation

v.squirt·edsquirt·ingsquirtsv.intr.
  1. To issue forth in a thin forceful stream or jet; spurt.
  2. To eject liquid in a jet.
v.tr.
  1. To eject (liquid) forcibly in a thin stream from a narrow opening.
  2. To wet with a spurt of liquid.
n.
  1. The act of squirting.
  2. An instrument, such as a syringe, used for squirting.
  3. A squirted jet of liquid.
  4. Slang.
    1. A small or young person.
    2. An insignificant or contemptible person.
[Middle English squirten, possibly of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin, akin to Low German swirtjen.]
squirter squirt'er n.

[動](自)〈液体が〉噴出する, ほとばしる
The lemon squirted in my eye.
レモンの汁が目に飛び込んだ.
━━(他)
1 〈液体・粉末などを〉噴出させる, 吹きかける((out))
squirt water at a person
人に水をかける.
2 …に(液体などを)かける, (ホースなどで)水を浴びせる((with ...)).
━━[名]
1 噴出, 噴流, 噴水;[U]噴出される少量の液体;((俗))射精, 精液, 小便.
2 注水器, 噴射器, 洗浄器, 水鉄砲.
3 ((話・軽蔑))若僧, 青二才;ちび;取るにたらないやつ.
4 ((米俗))25セント(硬貨).
squirt・er
[名](水などの)噴出装置.


squirt
verb
1 [I or T; usually + adverb or preposition] (to force a liquid) to flow out through a narrow opening in a fast stream:
He squirted some tomato sauce on his burger.
There was a leak in one of the pipes and water was squirting out all over the kitchen floor.

2 [T] to hit someone or something with a liquid or gas:
She was squirting the neighbours with a water pistol.

squirt
noun [C]
1 an amount of liquid or gas that is squirted out:
The door should stop squeaking once I've given it a few squirts of oil.

2 OLD-FASHIONED a young or small person whom you consider to be unimportant and who has behaved rudely towards you:
I caught my neighbour's son writing graffiti on our wall, the little squirt.


━━ n., v. 噴出(する[させる]) ((out)); 浴びせる ((with)); 注ぎ込む ((into)); 噴水; 注射器; 〔話〕 青二才; 水鉄砲 (squirt gun).

 squirt・er ━━ n. 噴出装置.




oc·to·pus
(ŏk'tə-pəs) pronunciation
(OK-tuh-pus)

noun, plural octopuses or octopi
1. Any of numerous carnivorous marine mollusks of the genus Octopus or related genera, found worldwide. The octopus has a rounded soft body, eight tentacles with each bearing two rows of suckers, a large distinct head, and a strong beaklike mouth. Also called devilfish.
2. Something, such as a multinational corporation, that has many powerful, centrally controlled branches.

Etymology
New Latin Octopus, genus name, from Greek oktopous, eight-footed : okto, eight, okto(u) + pous, foot.
Usage
"Wipro may be a diversified octopus but the strongest arm of the cephalopod is software." — Sumit Mitra, et al, Software: Cyber Zars, India Today, Mar 15, 1999.


ceph·a·lo·pod (sĕf'ə-lə-pŏd') pronunciation
cephalopod

n. - 頭足類動物

A cephalopod (Greek plural Κεφαλόποδα (kephalópoda); "head-feet") is any member of the mollusc class Cephalopoda, characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusc foot, a muscular hydrostat, into the form of arms or tentacles. Teuthology, a branch of malacology, is the study of cephalopods. These creatures became dominant around the Ordovician period. The fishing industry name for this class is inkfish, referring to many cephalopods' ability to squirt ink.
The class contains two extant subclasses. In the Coleoidea, the mollusk shell has been internalized or is absent; this subclass includes the octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. In the Nautiloidea, the shell remains; this subclass includes the nautilus. About 800 distinct living species of cephalopods have been identified. Two important extinct taxa are Ammonoidea, the ammonites, and Belemnoidea, the belemnites.


extant[ex・tant]

  • 発音記号[ékstənt | ekstǽnt]
[形]((形式))〈文書などが〉現存している, 残存する;〈人が〉現存の, 現役の.
[ラテン語exstant(ex-外に+stāre立つ)外に立っている→見える. △STAND, STABLE, STATE, STATIC, STAGE

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