(adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(2) Cardiff are currently six points adrift of Premier League safety, lying 19th ahead of Saturday's trip to Southampton with just five games left.
(3) The right has certainly cast adrift parents who wish not to use third-party care for their children, and it is becoming a revolutionary (and firmly feminist) concept to imagine that equality is not only achieved via full participation in the paid workplace.
(4) They were two goals behind after 13 minutes at Stamford Bridge and three adrift after 22 at the Etihad Stadium.
(5) I was angry when I saw it because I’m working hard, as are other Labour MPs and activists around the country, trying to get a Labour government back in six months’ time, and she set that process back.” David Lammy, the former minister who is hoping to stand as the Labour candidate in the 2016 London mayoral contest, added to the sense of unease in the party when he warned that the party had become “culturally adrift” from its traditional base.
(6) Rémi Garde’s side are 10 points adrift of safety and have failed to sign a single player during the window.
(7) Drawings meant to show the design of pipelines and a crucial waste storage tank are "misleading", "contradictory" or entirely missing, while in one place a pipe bracket has "come adrift" from a wall.
(8) Lewis Nkosi, who has died after a stroke aged 73, once described his fellow writers on South Africa's Drum magazine as "the new Africans, cut adrift from the tribal reserve – urbanised, eager, fast-talking and brash".
(9) Updated at 1.22pm GMT 11.55am GMT Could RBS could have been forced into cutting healthy firms adrift, as is alleged, because of the pressure to cut its lending book and recapitalise?
(10) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
(11) On Wednesday, his father Ray told the Guardian: “CCHQ’s supposedly impartial investigation, conducted not by an independent person but by a party ‘insider’, was always going to cast Clarke adrift and having done this was going to slam the doors of CCHQ shut and hunker down in an attempt to weather the storm.
(12) "By GOD," Hilary gasps in episode one, possibly realising she has signed up for months of sitting in this dusty 90s hellhole with Perfect Peter Jones and know-it-all Theo having to entertain a dismal tribe of jabberers, snake-oil salesmen, "mumpreneurs" and emotionally adrift dreamers who researchers found in mid-afternoon Wetherspoons.
(13) Gomez, who turned 18 last month, impressed in his first league campaign at The Valley and joins James Milner, Danny Ings and Adam Bogdan on the list of players to have signed with Brendan Rodgers’ team since last season, when they finished sixth, eight points adrift of the Champions League places.
(14) But there's a high risk he'll be cheated, adrift in a virtually unregulated, uninspected world of work.
(15) Villa have now gone a club-record 15 league games without a win, they remain eight points adrift of safety, and Rémi Garde could be forgiven for privately wishing that Arsène Wenger, his mentor, had talked him out of, and not into, this thankless job.
(16) But now they're still floating up there, adrift, separate from the people: but everybody's getting poorer."
(17) AOL has now been cut adrift, but not before Time Warner bled content and money all over the web.
(18) He thinks Britain's foreign policy-making is superficial and ill-informed – overly dependent on a loyalty to America, yet adrift from what the Obama administration wants.
(19) The 3-1 defeat at home to Southampton was Chelsea’s fourth loss in the Premier League this season and leaves them 10 points adrift of Manchester City at the top.
(20) Carson Cowles, who identified himself as Roof’s uncle, told Reuters that Roof’s father had recently given him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present and that Roof had seemed adrift.
Seaman
Definition:
(n.) A merman; the male of the mermaid.
(n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last save in a competitive match was perhaps the most memorable: David Seaman stopping Gary McAllister's 'rolling ball' during Euro 96.
(2) "They have some lawsuits in the works, and they're pretty passionate people," said Paul Seamans, of Draper, South Dakota, who farms and ranches on land the pipeline would cross.
(3) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
(4) Top coach-in-residence Mark Seaman is on hand to teach you how to bunnyhop like a pro – and avoid biffing (crashing).
(5) He spent four years in the navy after joining as a boy seaman.
(6) Trident whistleblower needs to be listened to even if he is exaggerating Read more Able Seaman William McNeilly, 25, a newly qualified engineer, claimed that Britain’s nuclear deterrent was a “disaster waiting to happen” in a report detailing 30 alleged safety and security breaches, including a collision between HMS Vanguard and a French submarine during which a senior officer thought: “We’re all going to die.” McNeilly wrote that a chronic shortage of personnel meant that it was “a matter of time before we’re infiltrated by a psychopath or a terrorist; with this amount of people getting pushed through”.
(7) Seaman saved the penalty, Jason McAteer rammed in the rebound, and Fowler ended up winning Uefa's Fair Play award for his honesty.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arsenal dominated the ball, but in the 105th minute, Ryan Giggs, a second-half substitute, leapt upon a Patrick Vieira mistakeand darted between Lee Dixon, Martin Keown and Tony Adams before smashing the ball past David Seaman to score one of the great FA Cup goals .
(9) Results further indicate that, just as cell partition in charged phase systems reflects membrane charge-associated properties not readily measured by means other than partition (Brooks, D.E., Seaman, G.V.F.
(10) We can confirm that Able Seaman McNeilly has left the naval service the details of which are a matter for the individual and his employer,” said a naval spokeswoman.
(11) Hobsbawm married his first wife, Muriel Seaman, in 1943.
(12) Able Seaman McNeilly, 25, is in the custody of Royal Navy police at an undisclosed military establishment in Scotland after he was apprehended at Edinburgh airport on Monday night.
(13) (MACLENNAN, D.H., YIP, C. C., ILES, G. H., and SEAMAN, P. (1972) Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
(14) Gillies first used the tubed pedicle flap in reconstructing the face of a naval seaman burned in World War I. Axial pattern flaps such as the deltopectoral are widely used in the treatment of head and neck cancer and the one-stage free flap obviously has an exciting future.
(15) The more sophisticated computer analysis of the data has revealed a substantial CD contribution from the low-affinity sites (approximately 30% of the high affinity contribution at pH 6.94) and suggests that skeletal TN-C with Ca2+ bound at the low-affinity sites is in a different conformation from that when just the high-affinity sites are occupied, in agreement with a recent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study on this system (Seaman, K. B., Hartshorne, D. J.
(16) "I mean, you just wouldn't see David Seaman or Jens Lehmann wearing a pink shirt, would you?
(17) Barewood College, near Wokingham, was a school for the sons of merchant seaman (Kemp's father was a sailor; he was lost at sea in 1940).
(18) It also showed a handwritten letter purporting to be by leading seaman Turney to her parents, saying she had "written a letter to the Iranian people to apologise for us entering into their waters".
(19) Mankell, who has been politically active from a young age and was once a merchant seaman, said he had been struck by the lack of other writers and intellectuals on the voyage and called on others to become involved.
(20) David Seaman came racing out of his area, but Giggs took the ball round him and round Sol Campbell to leave sight of an open goal.