What's the difference between berm and towpath?

Berm


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Berme

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Berm Sex Role Inventory and the Defense Mechanism Inventory were administered to 66 high school students (31 boys and 25 girls), ages 14-19.
  • (2) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
  • (3) Each volunteer S completed the Berm Sex Role Inventory, the Interpersonal Style Inventory, and Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test.
  • (4) "No Nato," said Mohammed, the 14-year-old son of a Dafniya rebel fighter drinking tea behind one of the giant sand berms that shield rebel positions from sniper fire.
  • (5) You will capture the berm tomorrow morning.” Once again, Abu Ali’s reactions got the better of him.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Los Laureles canyon is cut off by an earth berm, a highway and the border wall – all inserted by Homeland Security.
  • (7) Some posting showed extremists weeping with joy as dozens of Iraqi army humvess were driven through a sand berm on the border into Syria.
  • (8) In the past, when they attacked, they tried to fill up the trench beyond our berms with a bulldozer, but this time was different,” said a Kurdish officer, Major Ibrahim, who has fought Isis since August 2014.
  • (9) They were very good fighters, but they also had good guns,” said Kovali, whose forces are on the front berm across from Isis-held Iraqi territory.
  • (10) With almost no formalities, the commander pointed to a large earth berm about 350 metres away.
  • (11) Susie and John Munro, who live in cottages beside the golf course car park, at the foot of the same hill which Milne’s house sits on, have complained about an earth wall or berm built by Trump’s staff which now entirely blocks their view across the old dunes and out to sea.
  • (12) He said he saw crews building a berm around a valve.
  • (13) I think of that configuration of berm, chamber, shaft, disc and hot cell – all set atop the casks of pulsing radioactive molecules entombed deep in the Permian strata – as perhaps our purest Anthropocene architecture.
  • (14) The government has decided to erect a fence and berm around the contours of the camp, Alhmoud told IRIN, "to prevent any foul play from the outside and the inside".
  • (15) The Iraqi army is on the other side of that berm,” he said.
  • (16) The present plans for marking the site involve a berm with a core of salt, enclosing the above-ground footprint of the repository.
  • (17) It looks arid now, but in heavy rains the water courses along the canyon, where these houses are, and can only escape through a drain in the berm wall.
  • (18) ODI cited the examples of Jordan refusing to welcome 70,000 Syrians stranded in the desert area of Berm and Kenya’s plans to shut the long-running Dadaab refugee camp and repatriate its largely-Somali refugee population.
  • (19) Three options have been proposed including an earth berm around the village, upstream storage and house-by-house defences.
  • (20) Like the building, the car park is raised up on a defensive berm, surrounded by gabion walls and hedgerows, reinforcing the feeling that this alien spaceship is cut off from the surrounding streets.

Towpath


Definition:

  • (n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
  • (2) No wonder there is such anticipation on the towpath.
  • (3) Almost every month, new kinds of data are incorporated into Google Maps: in June, it was 2,000 miles of British canal towpaths, complete with bridges and locks; it was bike lanes .
  • (4) Yet when I look in the mirror at my towpath-pounding legs, my prominent collarbones, swelling biceps and flat, gravel-hardened feet, I am looking at my father's body.
  • (5) Once the route joins the Wey Navigation, it follows the towpath right into Guildford and almost to the station.
  • (6) We used to climb trees and track courting couples, and dig animal traps on the towpath and cover them up with grass to disguise them,” he recalled.
  • (7) Brian Sharpe, editor of Towpath Talk magazine, said: "There is a lot of pressure get out of this mess, and I think it is a mess.
  • (8) Then you had to slither along a treacherous towpath, scramble over huge pipes pumping unimaginable quantities of dirty floodwater into the heavily swollen river Parrett, and slide down the bank to the lane outside Steve’s home.
  • (9) The hungry eye was guided by fragments towards a poetic whole: a few weeds summoned up a towpath, a single flat created a public house.
  • (10) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
  • (11) The product of another era An interesting route to the New Era estate is along the towpath of the Grand Union canal, which in this stretch separates Islington from Hoxton and (at one time) the middle from the working classes.
  • (12) Take a right fork for the Thames Path, which passes through a wooded area and across a field, onto the towpath, where you turn left and follow the river.
  • (13) I don’t believe in the Pusher , the shadowy serial killer rumoured to stalk the towpath, but the junkies put me right off.

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