sprat

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There are technical journals such as Sprat which cover this on old fashioned paper form.

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Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.

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noun

Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.

noun

Any of various similar fish of other genera.

noun

(by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sprat.

noun

Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.

See also: brisling, clupea-sprattus

noun

Any of various similar fish of other genera.

See also: brisling, clupea-sprattus

noun

(by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.

See also: brisling, clupea-sprattus

verb

(transitive, historical) To manure (land) with sprats (the fish).

See also: brisling, clupea-sprattus

Example sentences

There are technical journals such as Sprat which cover this on old fashioned paper form.

I would recommend looking at the ones that are thought in the Irata and Sprat certifications.

Eat fish which are on bottom of the food chain - sardines and sprat are low in organic mercury but high in omega3 fatty acids.

I don't mean to venerate Apple by this comment, but this is truly the marriage of Jack Sprat and his wife and I don't think I'm alone in wishing for its demise.

But nothing you can do would make it easy to read for them, any more than you can make Jack Sprat easy to read for those who do not speak any English.

From Wikipedia [0]: "Canned sardines in supermarkets may actually be sprat (such as the brisling sardine) or round herrings.", and sprat [1] is a different fish, not a sardine [2].

Nobody in Russia or Nordic countries calls "sprat" "sardines" - this is one of the typical misnomers.

The device was masqueraded as a canned "Килька черноморская в томате" (Canned fish: Black Sea sprat in tomato) and was transmitting short narrow beams upstream on schedule.

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From Wikipedia [0]: "Canned sardines in supermarkets may actually be sprat (such as the brisling sardine) or round herrings.", and sprat [1] is a different fish, not a sardine [2].

Nobody in Russia or Nordic countries calls "sprat" "sardines" - this is one of the typical misnomers.

The device was masqueraded as a canned "Килька черноморская в томате" (Canned fish: Black Sea sprat in tomato) and was transmitting short narrow beams upstream on schedule.