What's the difference between barge and filler?

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.

Filler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
  • (n.) A thill horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The filler did not absorb water, so the effect of the filler content on the diffusion coefficients of the water sorption was to be associated with of the law of mixture.
  • (2) The clindamycin capsules used in this preparation contained insoluble fillers that may be removed by filtration without loss of in vitro antibacterial activity.
  • (3) The fracture behavior was dependent on the filler concentration and the presence of absorbed water.
  • (4) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
  • (5) A liquid chromatographic method for the quantitative determination of propyl paraben in cigarette tobacco filler has been developed.
  • (6) Calcium-phosphate ceramic particulates are often used as filler material for enhanced repair of dental bone defects.
  • (7) As the war on sugar debate rages in the UK, Hotel Chocolat has more to offer customers whose tastes are changing, he says, with its “less sugar, more cocoa” approach setting it apart from the cheaper alternatives which tend to use sugar, and not the more costly cocoa, as the filler ingredient.
  • (8) pipette fillers and latex gloves, were found to be the source of these and other compounds in the reagent blank profile.
  • (9) Measurements were made on both the unpolished matrix-rich surface and the polished filler-rich surface.
  • (10) Taber said: "Unless we get this sorted out, dermal fillers will be the next disaster."
  • (11) Microscopic protection against resin matrix wear is provided by filler particles that are close together.
  • (12) Valeant raised $1.4bn by selling the North American rights to a range of cosmetic and medical skin fillers to Nestlé, the Swiss firm famous for Nescafé and KitKats, and immediately put the money into its offer for Allergan, raising its bid to $49.4bn.
  • (13) Both series were prepared by incorporating a silanated barium borosilicate filler into a visible-light-activated polyphenylene polymethacrylate resin matrix.
  • (14) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
  • (15) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (16) Two series of dental composites, along with the unfilled resin matrix, were examined to determine the effects of filler level and size on selected properties.
  • (17) Because of its low filler particle percentage, microfilled composite resins--traditionally recommended for anterior restorations--are extremely translucent.
  • (18) Two layers of Dacron fabric were laid together, stitched to the rib with nylon thread, and the resulting tubular cavity packed with HAP filler to create an artificial rib.
  • (19) According to the classification proposed by Hosoda, six core resins could be divided into two categories on the basis of the elemental composition and size distribution of filler particles by SEM observation and EDX analysis.
  • (20) The tendency of composites to leach filler elements almost linearly with time, could be used to generate a constant release rate of such therapeutic elements over time.