What's the difference between barge and feeler?

Barge


Definition:

  • (n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
  • (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
  • (n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
  • (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
  • (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (2) The farmers may also struggle to find other bulk items, such as fertiliser, that are typically shipped by barge.
  • (3) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
  • (4) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
  • (5) The catamaran-style “waste harvester” uses a system of interchangeable barges and on-board storage to continuously harvest surface waste without having to frequently return to shore to unload.
  • (6) A retired police officer told the West Yorkshire inquiry that there were rumours in the early 1960s that Savile "took young girls to his barge in Leeds for parties".
  • (7) Barges are carrying lighter loads, making for more traffic, with more delays and back-ups.
  • (8) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
  • (9) A discarded oil drum bobbing in the Napo highlights the pollution from the oil barges and river traffic.
  • (10) When, finally, the LPO barge joined the procession of boats, Blunt says he found it "impossible not to get swept up in national fever.
  • (11) Wayne Rooney was still protesting after the final whistle, the England captain furious Mark Clattenburg had penalised Rafael da Silva for a foul on Vardy, when the Leicester forward had barged into the United full-back seconds earlier.
  • (12) They shrugged off the harsh decision not to award them a 43rd-minute penalty for a barge by Giorgio Chiellini on Joel Campbell to strike the decisive blow through the captain Bryan Ruiz.
  • (13) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
  • (14) After Michal Pazdan tried to nick Nani’s pass from him and failed, the chance opened up but Ronaldo shot straight at Fabianski while, on the half-hour, he should have had a penalty when Pazdan barged into him as he attacked a cross.
  • (15) The Italian company IREM won the contract and supplied its own permanent workforce, accommodating them in large, grey housing barges moored off Grimsby docks.
  • (16) When elected to Westminster, however, her primary sporting activity was cycling to work along the river Thames from the barge on which she lived with her husband, Brendan Cox, and their two children, Lejla and Cuillin.
  • (17) The company has tried repeatedly to complete a landing of a 68m-tall rocket on the barge, most recently in March .
  • (18) By the time it arrived at the O2 Arena in Greenwich at 6pm, it had been buffeted and barged by clashes between pro-Tibetan demonstrators and Chinese students, and its passage interrupted by several direct incursions from protesters.
  • (19) Juventus and Liverpool have been brutally barged from contests by the Ivorian in recent weeks, with London rivals now dispatched the same way.
  • (20) In one of those self-destructive moments which have become this team’s hallmark, Fabricio Coloccini barged Steven Fletcher with a shoulder as the striker attempted to connect with Jermain Defoe’s pass.

Feeler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, feels.
  • (n.) One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp.
  • (n.) Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Miliband, who was clear that the motion should be worded in a non-partisan way to try to attract the widest possible support, put out feelers to the Liberal Democrats who can boast the most consistent track record in standing up to the Murdoch empire.
  • (2) Using a feeler type of cutting mechanism and a scanning electron microscope, cavity walls were examined subsequent to the preparation thereof with various types of working tools.
  • (3) A new, noninvasive method using a feeler arm to trace and measure facial contours is described.
  • (4) Sources close to the MDC said the party leadership had put out feelers to the military and elements of the ruling Zanu-PF to try to arrange a peaceful transfer of power.
  • (5) An optical feeler measuring technique was introduced for evaluating the dimensional accuracy of indirect stone models.
  • (6) They have handles like “Bum Feeler” and “Rock Hard”, and share stories of their exploits and pictures of the women they have surreptitiously dry-humped.
  • (7) For 18 months, a special contact unit was putting out feelers to army commanders, trying to understand their contingency plans and to persuade them to remain neutral.
  • (8) The reconsideration of the US role comes as Washington puts out feelers to the Taliban.
  • (9) Feelers have already gone out from Cameron’s allies to the Democratic Unionist party (current tally: eight seats).
  • (10) Kadyrov, in turn, despised Maskhadov, and was jealous of his standing among the Chechens, although Kadyrov's brutish son, Ramzan, recently claimed to be putting out feelers aimed at reaching a settlement with Maskhadov, a move he said was sabotaged by Russian intelligence.
  • (11) So Trump’s election team, somewhat recklessly, put out early feelers.
  • (12) The 24 N-terminal amino acids are so poorly defined in the electron density map as to make interpretation doubtful, indicating that they might act as 'feelers' suitable for DNA or protein (invertase) recognition.
  • (13) Shell ceased operations in 1993 and it says it has no plans to resume them, but local oil firms are putting out feelers, with community chiefs in the area collecting signaturesin favour of resuming drilling.
  • (14) From time to time, we would get feelers from people who knew him, or on his behalf, on whether we would grant a visa,” Richard Boucher, who worked for the South Asia bureau from 2006 to 2009, told the Wall Street Journal .
  • (15) The truth was that a rightly aggrieved Mancini had been tipped off about the feelers already going out to José Mourinho and had opted to announce his own sacking in advance.
  • (16) Putting out feelers The Maryland Democrat has long been preparing for a presidential run.
  • (17) It showed that measurings on the basis of acceleration registration produced similar results as the 'halter method with plate feelers' used so far and that disturbance of the test animals is reduced.
  • (18) The adaptation of the processed dentures to the aluminum cast was measured with feeler gauges.
  • (19) And she would yell at him, 'George, you're walking around with your feelers out!'
  • (20) They have become so desperate that they have been putting out feelers to minority parties to see if they can construct a Commons majority for revising the boundaries, even though Labour and the Lib Dems are opposed.