What's the difference between baseboard and easement?

Baseboard


Definition:

  • (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • snooc.ski , two-hour lesson £26 Book it: Peak Retreats has a week in a four-star self-catering apartment, based on five sharing, including Eurotunnel crossing, for £214pp Baseboarding, Whistler, Canada Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Bromley Sports Limited Given that snowboarding, which is essentially surfing on snow, was invented over 40 years ago, it’s surprising that it’s taken so long for someone to introduce front-lying bodyboarding to the slopes.
  • (2) Speaking to a handful of journalists at Sporting’s training field yesterday (including one pale, bearded specimen huddled into the corner of his office nearest the baseboard heater), Vermes recalled playing in a game in freezing rain at the Rutgers Bowl, before airily gesturing at the tundra beyond his window and saying, “this is nothing.” I expect him to wear one of those t-shirts with a shirt and tie printed on it for the final.
  • (3) above the floor were more effective in maintaining low airborne microbial populations than baseboard-level ports.
  • (4) With the new sport of baseboarding, offered in Whistler for the first time this winter, riders lie on an aerodynamic board to descend soft snowy pistes with plenty of room to manoeuvre.

Easement


Definition:

  • (n.) That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
  • (n.) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.
  • (n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
  • (2) The Obama administration declined to issue the easement in December and initiated an environmental impact study, a process that could have delayed the project for years.
  • (3) The army corps lacks statutory authority to simply stop the EIS and issue the easement,” the tribe said on Tuesday.
  • (4) His spokesman said the easement, which Obama had denied in December , “isn’t quite issued yet, but they plan to approve it” within days.
  • (5) He sought a more modest clarification of the guidelines: if he were to starve himself to death, what easement of pain could doctors give without fear of the law?
  • (6) The corps of engineers has twice delayed issuing the permit, known as an easement.
  • (7) Trump orders revival of Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines Read more The acting secretary of the army has directed the army corps of engineers to proceed with an easement necessary to finish the pipeline, Don Canton, spokesman for Hoeven, told the Associated Press.
  • (8) Between these two extremes, the OFT suggests a range of possible "easements and modifications".
  • (9) Company officials say they still need to acquire 12% of the total land easements from owners who have not yet reached a deal.
  • (10) People are jumping the gun, no easement has been issued,” he said, adding that he had confirmed that with the justice department.
  • (11) While these discussions and analysis are ongoing, construction on or under Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe cannot occur because the Army has not made a final decision on whether to grant an easement,” the letter concludes.
  • (12) Aggression by law enforcement has always been intentional to force the government to give the easement.” “It’s escalating more and more to the point where law enforcement is not really concerned with human life,” he added.
  • (13) His uncle is an oil executive, and his brother works for oil companies around the globe, but he also has family members who are farmers in the midwest and have had easements forced across their own land for oil pipelines.
  • (14) The letter, revealed in court filings, states that the easement will be issued “no earlier than 24 hours” after the delivery of the letter, which is dated 7 February.
  • (15) Fees have been replaced by what the Labour party claims to want, a graduated and capped surtax, one corrupted by easements, postponements, bursaries and means tests.
  • (16) The easement has not yet been approved and the assistant secretary for civil works will “make a decision on the pipeline once a full review and analysis is completed”, he said.
  • (17) The best way to protect people during the winter, and reduce the risk of conflict between water protectors and militarized police, is to deny the easement for the Oahe crossing, and deny it now,” he added.
  • (18) Asked about Obama’s comments, pipeline spokeswoman Vicki Granado told the Guardian: “We are not aware that any consideration is being given to a reroute, and we remain confident we will receive our easement in a timely fashion.” The company’s announcement comes as North Dakota regulators are moving ahead with a formal complaint against the corporation for failing to properly disclose findings of Native American artifacts along the construction route.
  • (19) The non-profit Detroit Riverfront Conservancy has convinced landowners to grant permanent easements for it to build a 5.5 mile walkable, bikeable strip along the water’s edge.
  • (20) The 'Fair Use' doctrine and the 'Rights in Data' clauses of the general provisions of the Federal Procurement Regulations are discussed in detail; so is the use of Talent Consent and Waivers and Easements of Copyright.

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