(adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidents allegedly occurred after Australian authorities were called to assist an asylum seeker boat that ran aground on an island near Darwin on New Year’s Day, and towed back to Indonesia, as part of the Abbott government’s policy of “turning back the boats”.
(2) Yet even after Buzz ran aground, the row with Facebook went on - and in retrospect, it's obvious that Mark Zuckerberg didn't trust Google not to be trying to build its own social network and using Facebook's social graph to do it.
(3) The 114,000-tonne ship ran aground off the shore of Giglio on 13 January 2012.
(4) As we all remember, Shell’s mishaps in 2012 culminated with its drilling rig running aground.
(5) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.
(6) There is also the ever-present possibility of a coal ship running aground on the reef.
(7) Chelsea's title challenge has run aground south of the river.
(8) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
(9) Meanwhile, a fragile wooden boat with more than 80 people aboard ran aground off the Aegean island of Rhodes.
(10) The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby.
(11) Le Week-end rolls in to remind us that dreams run aground and what's happening now is all that matters.
(12) Below is Tate Hill Sands, where the ship carrying Dracula ran aground, its crew missing, its dead skipper lashed to the wheel.
(13) The stricken Shell oil vessel that ran aground near an uninhabited Alaskan island on new year's eve has been refloated and is being towed to a sheltered cove where the damage can be assessed.
(14) From Brexit to Trump, on both sides of the Atlantic populism has run aground | Rafael Behr Read more However, May did not raise the US president’s comments about London mayor, Sadiq Khan, and in the formal bilateral did not raise Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, despite the issue causing tension between countries in drawing up the G20 communique.
(15) Europe’s worsening migrant crisis – the Guardian briefing Read more In another incident on Monday at least three people died when a boat ran aground off the Greek island of Rhodes.
(16) The Royal Dutch Shell ship, the Kulluk, which was used in the Arctic last summer, ran aground on Monday on a sand and gravel shore off an uninhabited island near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska.
(17) We are in a severe security situation, and if you are in a public place that is security-sensitive, I’m afraid you have got to show your face.” Diane James The deputy party chair is considered the most likely winner , after former frontrunner Steven Woolfe’s candidacy ran aground .
(18) A South African yachtsman held captive by Somali pirates for several days has escaped after the hijacked vessel ran aground, but two of his fellow hostages have been taken on to the mainland.
(19) September 18, 2013 10.55am BST Boris: UK economy had reached its 'Costa Concordia' moment Boris Johnson has claimed that Britain's economy has reached its " Costa Concordia " moment -- a reference to the Italian cruise ship which ran aground last year and was dramatically refloated this week .
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The rescue operation on Rhodes after a vessel carrying migrants ran aground on Monday.
Bottom
Definition:
(n.) The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
(n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
(n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
(n.) The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
(n.) The fundament; the buttocks.
(n.) An abyss.
(n.) Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
(n.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
(n.) Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
(n.) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
(v. t.) To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
(v. t.) To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
(v. t.) To reach or get to the bottom of.
(v. i.) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
(v. i.) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
(n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
(v. t.) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(3) The bottom line is that access to abortion is a matter of social justice.
(4) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(5) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(6) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
(7) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
(8) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(9) In some cases, a change in the type of bottom resulted in the opposite order of rates for vessels with the same diameter.
(10) 10.34pm BST Rays 2 - Red Sox 8, bottom of the 6th David Ortiz leads off the inning against Chris Archer, still in the game, he grounds into the Maddon shift.
(11) As is frequently the case, the bottom line in preventing and treating intra-abdominal adhesions is appropriate surgical technique.
(12) Companies like Origin and EnergyAustralia are pushing to weaken the target not, as they like to claim, because that would be good for customers, but because a weaker target is better for their bottom line,” Connor said.
(13) You can be very cosy with someone but, at the end of the day, it’s about the bottom line.
(14) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
(15) The calibrated aperture in the bottom of each well is small enough to retain fluid contents by surface tension during monolayer growth, but also permits fluid to enter the wells when transfer plates are lowered into receptacles containing washing buffer or test sera.
(16) When you are informed that 200 children are missing, you don’t go to dinner until you have got to the bottom of it.
(17) That is the bottom line.” Others described the need for a policy of containing Iran, especially with the lifting of economic sanctions.
(18) In order to study the effects of different glass ionomers on the metabolism of Streptococcus mutans, test slabs of freshly mixed conventional glass ionomer (Fuji), silver glass ionomer (Ketac-Silver), composite (Silux), and 2-week-old Fuji were fitted into the bottom of a test tube.
(19) The plates were viewed directly in an inverted UV microscope or were inspected and photographed bottoms up with a conventional UV microscope mounted with an old-fashioned uncorrected objective (20 X) which, because of its shorter length, permitted proper focussing.
(20) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.