(n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
(n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
(n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(2) Once considered a backwater of the international drug trade, west Africa was quickly becoming a hub for cocaine smuggling.
(3) Kerala Kayaking offers good-value tours around the backwaters, taking you to try traditional chai and sweet paratha in floating cafes with friendly eagles that sit on your shoulders, and the guides explain the culture of the area.
(4) Though his criticisms of the KGB's unreformed bureaucracy were mild by western standards, they led to his transfer, late in 1956, from operations to the relative backwater of the archives, where he served for the remainder of his career.
(5) It’s been underexposed and underinvested in, and now things are changing.” Women’s sport as a wider prospect has long been something of a commercial backwater.
(6) Howard Webb had described his selection to officiate in this final as the ultimate honour, the culmination of a 17-year journey that had begun in the backwaters of the Northern Counties East League.
(7) When France goes to the polls today to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections, the attention of the political elite, the media and much of the French public will be focused on the Atlantic backwater of La Rochelle.
(8) This is frontier territory where backwater bureaucrats rubber-stamp passing timber shipments and don’t make a fuss.
(9) We have the mainstream, and this is some little backwater.
(10) There is a human detritus swirling around in the backwaters of the welfare state which nobody seems able to do anything about.
(11) Coming from the relative backwaters of rural Wales, it was an eye-opening experience.
(12) Residents of Nkandla – a rural backwater which has an unemployment rate of 47.4% – have already seen some tangible benefits from having the number one citizen in their midst .
(13) Despite its designer boutiques and interior design stores, the village is still very much a backwater.
(14) Simon Spiller "A relaxed seaside town, but less of a sleepy backwater than it used to be: quite a few urban downshifters in their 40s, like us, and culture, including a literary festival.
(15) Then came Gummo (1997), about a prostitute with Down's syndrome and a gang of glue-sniffing, cat-killing teenagers in a Midwest backwater.
(16) Kibuye, once a dilapidated backwater isolated by bad roads, now has a highway to the capital, Kigali, multi-storey banks, offices and a cultural museum.
(17) Designers often talk about rewarding the player for exploration, but usually do so with facile Easter eggs, hidden away in mundane backwaters.
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(19) We've headed out of the bustling metropolis of Blade Runner into a backwater, more easily twinned with the scrapyard slums of District 9 than the sleek, centralised hub of a Spielberg-ian future.
(20) Truman Capote's cool, sweet slip of a novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's , is a voyeuristic variation on the theme, in which the narrator can merely guess how Lulamae Barnes, a wild child from a Texas backwater, became the glamorous Holly Golightly; it is a transformation that could only have happened in New York.
Oar
Definition:
(n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
(n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
(n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
(v. t. & i.) To row.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine which dimensions of the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) would best predict the status of the medically disabled elderly, veteran inpatients, outpatients, and nonpatient volunteers were administered the multidimensional functional assessment portion of the OARS.
(2) Although the vast majority (83.2%) of subjects were fully independent on the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale, a broader scope of functional difficulty was reported on the Spector-Katz, five-item OARS, and Rosow-Breslau scales.
(3) In the simpler method, used for rotation techniques, the off-axis ratio (OAR) is calculated from the equation.
(4) 5.41pm BST 38 min: Now it's Oar terrorising the Netherlands!
(5) Recent refinements in the OARS methodology include new information about validity and reliability, computerized summary ratings for the five dimensions of functional status, and eleven scales that measure specific aspects of functioning within the five dimensions.
(6) From a midfield freekick, Oar drops the ball on the penalty spot and the only player there to welcome it is Spiranovic!
(7) The differences at the finish were a result of the lifting of the oar from the water not exhibited in ergometer rowing.
(8) 6.20pm BST 62 min: Janmaart takes Oar's legs from him but he retrieves them to curl in a freekick towards the gold shirts lining up along the edge of the Dutch penalty area.
(9) Oar exploded into space and, really, should have taken the opportunity to shoot.
(10) Kinetics for the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of compounds 9--13 were investigated by UV and NMR methods and are considered in connection with service of these compounds as pro(phosphorodiamidic acid mustards) [MP(O)(NHR)OAr leads to MP(O)(NHR)OH] via an E1cB mechanism involving the intermediacy of a mustard-bearing metaphosphorodiimide [MP(O)=NR].
(11) Kobach, who took a doctorate in politics from Brasenose college, Oxford, has a rowing oar from his 1991 Isis crew on the wall of his state office, along with the heads of two deer that he shot, he says, with a bow.
(12) Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
(13) Inpatients showed significantly more impaired ratings on all five of the OARS subscales than the outpatients and nonpatients, while outpatients were more impaired than nonpatients on two of the subscales (mental health and activities of daily living).
(14) An approximate calculation of the ratio of the power put into the boat's motion to the power lost as water movement in the oar "puddle" suggests that increasing the blade area of the oar will result in improved efficiency.
(15) Measures included assessments of social network using components of the OARS, family satisfaction using the APGAR, family cohesion and adaptability using the FACES II, alcohol abuse using the CAGE, and indicators of health-protective behaviors.
(16) The oar-like crossbridge cycle, developed up to the mid-1970's, was shown to be inconsistent with more recent biochemical results.
(17) Davidson and Oar combine wonderfully on the left with a one-two and Oar almost gets clear in the Dutch box, which is an unfortunate combination of words, but what can you do?
(18) Axopods of the planktonic protozoan, Sticholonche, are used as oars to propel the organism through seawater.
(19) A measurement model of mental health for the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) questionnaire is described.
(20) 5.11pm BST 7 min: Leckie, then Oar, give Cillessen something to think about.