(adv.) On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
(adv.) Alongside; as, close aboard.
(prep.) On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
(prep.) Across; athwart.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(2) Twenty-one subjects flew aboard a KC-135 aircraft operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which performed parabolic maneuvers resulting in periods of 0-g, 1-g, and 1.8-g. Each subject flew once with a tablet containing scopolamine and once with a placebo in a random order, crossover design.
(3) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(4) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(5) De Boer's successor's first tasks will be to keep the US aboard the negotiations and to clear up the vexed question of the legal status of the Copenhagen accord , the deal struck at Copenhagen by a small group but not endorsed by a majority of countries.
(6) Saadi's entire family were bundled aboard an aircraft in Hong Kong and flown to Tripoli in March 2004.
(7) Winterton used these acceptances to persuade others to climb aboard: “Andy is in, Hilary is in.” Corbyn was on the phone to Chuka Umunna, then shadow business secretary, who had been careful to brief that he was not going to immediately walk out but wait to see what Corbyn said on policy.
(8) The kidnap and execution of the then Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades , the murderous bomb in Bologna station in 1980 and others in Milan, Brescia and aboard a train were, differently, expressions of what Italians call the “strategy of tension” by the state.
(9) Illness incidence was examined aboard U.S. Navy vessels to ascertain whether sick call rates vary with ship size.
(10) The migrants rescued on Tuesday had been aboard five motorised dinghies and two larger vessels.
(11) A point source outbreak of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba infections occurred aboard an oil rig south of Port Arthur, Texas, in September 1981.
(12) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
(13) FO: OK. Minutes later, the plane plunged into a field, killing all 68 aboard.
(14) She's in that top tier of stars among whom the (allegedly) choicest scripts circulate incestuously until one of them jumps ship or another climbs aboard.
(15) Vote Leave tweeted a new version of Johnson’s London mayoral campaign cartoon of him with the simple message: “Welcome aboard, @ BorisJohnson !
(16) In 1974 the USSR carried out a rat experiment aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 equipped with a gamma-emitter.
(17) Australia's former environment minister, Ian Campbell, told Australian television from aboard a Sea Shepherd vessel that the group would "have to get organised to go out to the oceans and save the whales off South Korea".
(18) A group of passengers aboard one of Vinson’s two Frontier Airlines flights are being monitored for symptoms.
(19) Pamela Dix, Executive Director of Disaster Action, supporting those caught up in terrorism or disaster, began campaigning after her brother Peter died aboard Pan Am flight over Lockerbie in 1988.
(20) The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard,” said Fellowes, who wants to start focusing his attention on his long-awaited US drama The Gilded Age for NBC .
Athwart
Definition:
(prep.) Across; from side to side of.
(prep.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
(adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
(adv.) Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others were catapulted down corridors running athwart the ship or hurled from the starboard decks into the sea.
(2) Standing athwart the the typical lineup of conservative justices were the three women, all liberals, on the court: Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg.