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Definition: Squid |
SquidNoun1. (Italian cookery) squid prepared as food. 2. Widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "squid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Note: Squid \Squid\, noun. [Compare to Squirt.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A magnetic sensor which employs the variation of impedance of a tuned circuit coupled to a superconducting circuit incorporating one or more weak junctions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about the sea animal. For other uses of "squid", see Squid (disambiguation).
The squid is a marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, order Teuthida, of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and Oegopsina (the latter includes Architeuthis dux, the giant squid).
Like all cephalopods, they are distinguished by having a distinct head, bilateral symmetry and tentacles with suckers; squid, like cuttlefish, have ten tentacles arranged in pairs. They also have chromatophores imbedded in their skin and the ability to expel ink if threatened. Being coleoidea means that their bony structure is internalized (in the octopus it is nonexistent); in squid there is a single flat bone plate buried within the soft tissue structure. They have a specialized foot called the siphon, or hyponome, that enables them to move by expelling water under pressure. Squid are the most skilled of the coleoidea at this form of motion. The mouth of the squid is beak-like and made of chitin, and contains the radula (the rough tongue common to all molluscs).
Squid have two gills and an extensive closed circulatory system with one major and two subsidiary hearts.
They are exclusively carnivorous, feeding on fish and other invertebrates. Squid usually have two elongated tentacles especially for the capture of food.
The majority of squid are no more than 60 cm in length, but the giant squid is reportedly up to 20m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes of all. Recently, however, an even larger specimen of a poorly known species, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni (the colossal squid) has been discovered.
Individual species of squid are found abundantly in certain areas and provide large catches for fisheries.
Squid is a popular food in many parts of the world, and finds its way into cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian. In American fish markets and restaurants, it is usually known by the Greek plural calamari.A Superconducting QUantum Interference Device is loop of superconductor that contains one or more Josephson Junctions. They can be used as very sensitive magnetometers, and form the basic building block of several sorts of logic device.
The basic principle of operation is closely linked to flux quantisation. This is the phenomenon that the favoured states for a loop of superconductor are those where the flux inside is a multiple of the flux quantum. SQUIDs, or superconducting quantum interference devices, were invented in 1962 when B. D. Josephson developed the Josephson junction. There are two main types of SQUID, DC and RF (or AC). RF SQUIDs have only one Josephson junction whereas DC SQUIDs have two or more junctions. This makes DC SQUIDs more difficult and expensive to produce, but DC SQUIDs are much more sensitive.
Most SQUIDs are fabricated from lead or pure niobium. The lead is usually in the form of an alloy with 10% gold or indium, as pure lead is unstable when its temperature is repeatedly changed. The base electrode of the SQUID is made of a very thin niobium layer, formed by deposition, and the tunnel barrier is oxidised onto this niobium surface. The top electrode is a layer of lead alloy deposited on top of the other two, forming a sandwich arrangement.
SQUIDs are used to measure extremely tiny magnetic fields; they are currently the most sensitive such devices known, with noise levels as low as 3 fT/sqrt(Hz). Some processes in animals produce very small magnetic fields (typically sized between a billionth of a Tesla and a thousand billionth of a Tesla - a typical fridge magnet is a tenth of a Tesla), and SQUIDs are well suited to studying these. Magnetoencephalography (MEG), for example, uses measurements from an array of SQUIDs to make inferences about neural activity inside brains. Because SQUIDs can operate at acquisition rates much higher than the highest temporal frequency of interest in the signals emitted by the brain (kHz), MEG achieves good temporal resolution. Another application is the scanning SQUID microscope, which uses a SQUID immersed in liquid helium as the probe. The use of SQUIDs in oil prospecting, earthquake prediction and geothermal energy surveying is becoming more widespread as superconductor technology develops.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Squid."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Squid | English | Superconducting Quantum Interferometer Device | Engineering & Technology |
SQUID | Swedish | Supraledande kvantinterferensapparat | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SquidSynonyms: calamari (n), calamary (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Squid |
| English words defined with "squid": calamari, calamary ♦ Flying machine ♦ genus Architeuthis ♦ Hook squid ♦ loligo ♦ ommastrephes ♦ Penfish ♦ Sea arrow, Sea devil, Sea grape, Sleevefish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "squid": Kinesin ♦ squid jig. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "squid": Sepia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Squid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (squid), Portuguese (squid, superconducting quantum interference device). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, squid pro row. (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers) Giant squid! Giant squid! (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed) Here, squid, squid, squid, squid (The Beast; writing credit: Peter Benchley; J.B. White) | |
Clever | The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Space Squid (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Squid fishing - not just a pastime but a passion in Rhode Island. Round-the- clock fishing. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A haul of shrimp, squid, and red crabs on the sorting table. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The F/V ATLANTIC TRAVELER squid rigged at the Co-op Seafood Retail Market. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Captain of the F/V ATLANTIC TRAVELLER offloading squid at Co-op Seafood Market dock. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Weighing squid from the F/V ATLANTIC TRAVELLER at Co-op Seafood Market dock. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. An unfortunate squid on the dock after being caught. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Close-up of the tail end of a squid, important prey for commercial fish. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Squid travelling in formation. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | A squid - Illex illecebrosus - cruising over a sandy area of the bank. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | A giant squid observed off Teneriffe in November 1861. Perhaps the inspiration for Jules Vernes' "20,000 Leagues under the Sea." In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 108. P. 115. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Baja California's infrastructure for the processing of fishing products is one of the most important in the country, with 11 canning factories for tuna, sardine, and squid and 4 flour reducing plants of fish and seaweed. (references) | |
The State's infrastructure for the processing of fishing products is located in Ensenada, one of the most important in the country, with 11 canning factories for tuna, sardine, and squid and 4 flour reducing plants of fish and seaweed. (references) | ||
Economic History | Namibia | There also are smaller but significant quantities of sole, squid, deepsea crab, rock lobster, and tuna. (references) |
Netherlands | Products with potential that can be supplied by the United States include fresh/frozen squid, prawns, shrimp and crab. (references) | |
Greece | U.S. exporters benefiting from the increase in this market included suppliers of Alaskan Pollack, Pacific Salmon, squid, and dogfish. (references) | |
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| "Squid" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 99.35% of the time. "Squid" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 99.35% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 155 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "squid": Flying squid ♦ Giant squid ♦ Hook squid ♦ squid hound ♦ squid jig ♦ stinky squid. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "squid": squid-ink, squid-like, squid-one. | |
Ending with "squid": Big-fin-reef-squid. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
squid | 638 | squid fact | 11 |
giant squid | 406 | diagram squid | 10 |
squid picture | 63 | information squid | 10 |
colossal squid | 51 | roe squid | 9 |
recipe squid | 43 | squid photo | 9 |
giant squid picture | 40 | humboldt squid | 9 |
proxy squid | 32 | squid fishing | 8 |
dissection squid | 28 | application biomedical squid | 8 |
squid cache | 26 | squid window | 8 |
caching proxy realm server squid web | 23 | squid statistics | 8 |
el squid roe | 23 | howto squid | 8 |
anatomy squid | 23 | squid bait | 8 |
squid vampire | 18 | cartoon squid | 8 |
squid turbo | 18 | compress header perl squid | 8 |
giant photo squid | 14 | magnetocardiography squid | 8 |
squid ink | 13 | pepper salt squid | 7 |
linux squid | 12 | compress script squid | 7 |
squid jig | 12 | compression squid | 7 |
squid proxy server | 11 | giant pic squid | 7 |
file log squid | 11 | multi squid threads | 7 |
gaint squid | 11 | pc squid | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "squid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kallamar (ink bottle, ink pot, ink-well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حيوان رخوي بحري, طعم من الحبار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид сепия използувана за стръв, ловя риба със сепия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 乌贼 (Cuttlefish, squids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tiarmet blæksprutte (common squid, inkfish, sea arrow), europæisk loligo (common squid, inkfish, sea arrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | squid (superconducting quantum interference device), gewone pijlinktvis (common squid, inkfish, sea arrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قلاب سنگین ماهیگیری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | squid (superconducting quantum interference device), kalmari (common squid, inkfish, sea arrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | calmar (common squid, European flying squid, flying squid, red squid, sea squid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tintenfisch (cuttlefish, devil fish, octopus, sepia, squids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλαμάρι (cuttlefish), καλαμαράκι (European flying squid, flying squid, red squid, sea squid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "יו ון (cuttlefish, ink fish), "' ""יו (cuttlefish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tintahal (calamary, Cuttle, cuttlefish, polyp, sepia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | cumi-cumi (criminal, enemy spy, evildoer, traitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | calamaro (calamary, cuttlefish, octopus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 烏賊 (cuttlefish), "烏賊 (cuttlefish), 槍烏賊 , 墨魚 (cuttlefish), スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いか (and downward, below, catabolic, catabolism, clothes rack, cuttlefish, dissimilation, doctor, less than, medical department, medical science, not exceeding, the following, the rest, under, up to), "ういか (cuttlefish), スクイッド , やりいか. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 오징어 (squids). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | squid, peie vreinn (calamary, cuttlefish, fetid chamomile), dyachlym. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idsquay lula (cuttle, cuttlefish, sepia). (various references) головоногое животное. (various references) lignja. (various references) calamar (cuttlefish, sepia, squib). (various references) supraledande kvantinterferensapparat (superconducting quantum interference device), SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device), vanlig bläckfisk (common squid, inkfish, sea arrow), tioarmad bläckfisk, havspil (common squid, inkfish, sea arrow), bläckfisk (cuttlefish, devilfish, octopus, poulpe). (various references) mürekkepbalığı (cuttlefish, sepia), kalamar (calamary). (various references) головонога тварина, наживка (bait, fly, kill-devil, lure). (various references) súng cối bắn t u ngầm mực ống m"i nhân tạo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arbor, arbore, arborem, arbores, arbori, arboribus, arboris, arborum, Loligo vulgaris, Loligo vulgaris (Lamarck,1798). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "squid": squidded, squidding, squids. (additional references) | |
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"Squid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esquid, iquid, Lquid, Qsubd, scid, sequed, Sgui, sluid, sqaid, sqi, squa, squade, squado, squag, squai, squaid, squait, squan, squand, squao, squap, squard, squav, squay, squd, sque, squed, squi, squic, squido, squie, squif, squig, squil, squim, squin, squip, squir, squis, squiv, squiz, squod, suid, suqed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "squid" (pronounced skwi"d) |
| 4 | -k w i" d | quid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: quids. | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-q-s-u" | |
-1 letter: quid. | |
-2 letters: dis, dui, ids, suq. | |
-3 letters: id, is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-q-s-u" | |
+1 letter: equids, squids. | |
+2 letters: diquats, liquids, squalid, squired. | |
+3 letters: disquiet, esquired, quadrics, quayside, queridas, quinoids, sequined, soliquid, squibbed, squidded, squiffed, squinted, squirmed, squirted, squished. | |
+4 letters: bedquilts, daiquiris, disquiets, equalised, misquoted, odalisque, quaysides, queenside, quicksand, quidnuncs, quietudes, sequinned, soliquids, squadding, squalider, squalidly, squidding, squiggled, squilgeed, squinched, squinnied. | |
+5 letters: acquiesced, adequacies, deliquesce, disqualify, disquieted, disquietly, dominiques, equipoised, liquidates, liquidizes, liquidness, nonliquids, odalisques, pasquinade, quadratics, quadriceps, quadrilles, quandaries, queensides, quesadilla, questioned, quicksands, quiddities, quinidines, quodlibets, quotidians, semiliquid, squalidest, squirreled, vanquished. | |
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