starling
IPA: stˈɑrɫɪŋ
noun
- A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
- The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
- (hydraulic engineering) An inclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
- One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
- A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
- An English surname transferred from the nickname from a nickname for a gregarious person.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Examples of "starling" in Sentences
- Frank Starling law of the heart.
- Starling supported this testimony.
- Starling lost by a 15 round decision.
- It walks on the ground like a starling.
- In Czech language it means starling a bird .
- This situation is known as a Starling resistor.
- She had two talking birds, a parrot and a starling.
- Starling is listed as series creator of the franchise.
- Most numerous are the chaffinch, blackbird, sparrow, and starling.
- A starling is a bird common to temperate climates here and in Asia.
- This meant the removal of the decorative elements placed on the starlings.
- The starling was the most common bird spotted around schools until 2009 when it was knocked off by the blackbird.
- "Anyone who thinks a starling is a pest just don't know anything about how a starling thinks" or something like that.
- We know, in fact, that the starling is our greatest mimic, and that he often succeeds in recognizable reproductions of single notes, of phrases, and occasionally of entire songs, as, for instance, that of the blackbird.
- The birds we had seen hitherto consisted chiefly of prairie chicken, lark, snipe, and a small kind of starling that was continuously swarming around us, and was so tame that it would at times sit on our pack animals while on the march.
- Accordingly, the Pithamarda should bring the man to her house, under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks, and rams, of hearing the mania (a kind of starling) talk, or of seeing some other spectacle, or the practice of some art; or he may take the woman to the abode of the man.
- Accordingly, the Pithamarda should bring the man to her house, under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks, and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk, or of seeing some other spectacle, or the practice of some art; or he may take the woman to the abode of the man.
- In such cases the girl “should bring him to her house under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk .... she should also amuse him for a long time by telling him such stories and doing such things as he may take most delight in.”
- In such cases the girl "should bring him to her house under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk .... she should also amuse him for a long time by telling him such stories and doing such things as he may take most delight in."