(n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
(n.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
(n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) An S phase-related nuclear 55K antigen, also designated PSL, has been characterized in various mammalian cells, using a human serum from a patient with autoimmune disorders (Barque et al., EMBO j 2 (1983) 743).
(2) All of them used boats, for example, to express man's passage through life, whether it be Turner's wave-tossed sailing ships, Monet's rowing boat at rest on a still lily pond, or the one-way journey of Twombly's Egyptian funerary barques.
(3) PSL(p55) is a nuclear 55kD antigen present in various mammalian cell systems, which has been first identified by use of human autoimmune antibodies (Barque et al.
Spencer
Definition:
(n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
(n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(3) A new carpet piece, Soft Ground (Great Hall), is being woven specially for the echoing double height great hall, Spencer-Churchill's favourite room.
(4) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
(5) Former Marks & Spencer boss Rose, chairman of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, was on Monday highlighting an analysis that claimed to show EU membership was worth an average of £670,000 in extra trade for each business that exports or imports goods within the bloc.
(6) Sainsbury's £1bn bid for Home Retail Group rejected Read more Sainsbury’s said the takeover would create the UK’s largest non-food retailer – ahead of John Lewis or Marks & Spencer – with about 2,000 stores and 100,000 products combined.
(7) June 19, 2014 7.39pm BST How Nouri al-Maliki fell out of favour with the US Here's new reportage and analysis from the Guardian's Martin Chulov ( @martinchulov ) and Spencer Ackerman ( @attackerman ).
(8) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(9) A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said that while the firm had not seen a significant increase in applications this year for its management trainee scheme, which is open to entrants with two A-levels, competition remained intense; there are up to 3,000 applicants for just 30 places.
(10) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(11) GDP growth could be as high as 1% for the quarter, which would appear to justify comments by the Bank of England's chief economist, Spencer Dale, that growth is running at an annualised rate of 3-4%.
(12) You have to have internal expertise, you have to have some troops in the department able to interpret ministers’ words,” said Matthew Spencer, Green Alliance’s director.
(13) This paper represents an initial step in applying to complex clinical situations the symbolic logic developed by G. Spencer Brown and elaborated by Francisco Varela.
(14) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(15) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
(16) None of the staff opted out of treating Spencer even though they were given an opportunity to do so.
(17) • They take action even if it may harm business Marks & Spencer's decision to charge for plastic bags, British Gas's encouragement of reduced use: these are not immediately obvious comfort zones for money-making enterprises.
(18) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(19) Spencer Thompson, the IPPR's senior economic analyst, said that while Britain's self-employed workforce "come in many shapes and sizes", some members of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee view the phenomenon as an indication of weakness in the labour market.
(20) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.