What's the difference between barge and ram?

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.

Ram


Definition:

  • (n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
  • (n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
  • (n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
  • (n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
  • (n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
  • (n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
  • (n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
  • (n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
  • (n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
  • (v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
  • (v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
  • (2) Intact rams exhibited GH secretory episodes of greater (P less than 0.01) amplitude than did castrated lambs.
  • (3) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
  • (4) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
  • (5) Castrated rams did not show this increase, with or without supplementary testosterone.
  • (6) Additional evaluation of the recoverability of H ovis and A seminis from the preputial cavity of rams from birth to 1 year of age indicated that the isolation rate from rams and predominance of the organisms in the preputial cavity differed greatly over this age period.
  • (7) Four rams each were either hemicastrated (HC) or left intact (INT) and blood samples were collected over a 2-wk period.
  • (8) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
  • (9) The ability of melatonin to influence LH pulse frequency in entire and castrated rams indicated that an effect of melatonin on the hypothalamic pulse generator is independent of testicular steroids.
  • (10) In addition, there was a marginally significant (P less than 0.1) relationship between prolactin secretion in the castrate ram and the stage of testicular activity in the entire rams with elevated levels associated with regressed activity.
  • (11) The effect of alpha-chlorohydrin on the metabolism of glycolytic and tricarboxylate-cycle substrates by ram spermatozoa was investigated.
  • (12) In the present study the influence of the period of the light cycle on variation in testicular weight in the ram was investigated.
  • (13) The androgenized ewes showed poorer oestrous responses to each hormone although rams showed interest in the ewes.
  • (14) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
  • (15) The effect of naloxone administration on the LH-RH secretion in hypophyseal portal blood and LH secretion in peripheral blood was studied in four short term castrated rams (between 2 to 4 days after castration).
  • (16) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
  • (17) Macrophages and various subtypes of lymphocytes were identified in the ram and the rat testis by using cytochemical and immunocytochemical techniques.
  • (18) The tail(s) of the epididymis was the most frequent site of lesion development in the mature rams (86.4%).
  • (19) The interactions of ram spermatozoa with exogenous liposomes of varying composition were studied, with the aim of examining the mechanisms by which some lipids protect against cold-induced damage during cryostorage.
  • (20) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?

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