sardine

English - Turkish

Definition of sardine in English Turkish dictionary

sardalya

Tom sarı hardallı kraker üzerinde füme sardalya yemeyi sever. - Tom likes to eat smoked sardines on crackers with yellow mustard.

Yolcular şehir otobüslerinde sardalyalar gibi paketlenir. - Passengers are packed in like sardines on city buses.

sardalye

Sardina pilchardus

packed like sardines sardalye gibi istif edilmiş

{i} ateşbalığı

Related Terms

sardine oil

sardalye yağı

sardine sandwich

sardalyeli sandviç

pacific sardine

pasifik sardalyası

pacific sardine

pasifik sardalyasi

slender rainbow sardine

(Denizbilim) hint sardalyası

English - English

Definition of sardine in English English dictionary

Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pichardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden

{n} a precious stone, a colour

The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar

any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned small fatty fish usually canned

a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden

emphasis If you say that a crowd of people are packed like sardines, you are emphasizing that they are sitting or standing so close together that they cannot move easily. The refugees were packed like sardines. Any of certain species of small (6-12 in., or 15-30 cm, long) food fishes of the herring family (Clupeidae), especially in the genera Sardina, Sardinops, and Sardinella. The common herring (Clupea harengus) is found throughout the North Atlantic. The five species of Sardinops live in the Pacific and Indian oceans. Sardines are small, silvery, slender fishes with a single short dorsal fin and no scales on the head. They live in dense schools, migrating along the coast. They are usually fished with an encircling net, particularly the purse seine, and mainly at night, when they surface to feed on plankton. See also pilchard, sprat

Sardines are a kind of small sea fish, often eaten as food. They opened a tin of sardines

Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus)

small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

small fatty fish usually canned

{i} any small edible fish from the herring family

{f} cram, pack together tightly

Related Terms

sardine can

box containing sardines preserved in water or oil

sardine oil

oil obtained from sardines and used chiefly as a lubricant and in soap

sardines

A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side

sardines

plural form of sardine

A sardine

surdiny

A sardine

sardel

A sardine

sardan

pacific sardine

small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America

sardines

plural of sardine

Hyphenation

sar·dine

Turkish pronunciation

särdin

Pronunciation

/särˈdēn/ /sɑːrˈdiːn/

Etymology

() from French sardine (compare Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardina; from the name of the island of Sardinia, Ancient Greek Σαρδέλα (Sardela).