(n.) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
(n.) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.
(n.) An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment.
(n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.
(v. t.) To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide.
(v. t.) To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(2) Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Jonny Evans, Tyler Blackett, Paddy McNair and Daley Blind – all of whom featured against America – along with Marcos Rojo, who is also resting after the Copa América, are in a fight for the two centre-back berths.
(3) Barring some disaster, an MP can expect to occupy such a berth for their entire career.
(4) After being sent off in United’s 2-1 quarter-final defeat by Arsenal in the competition on 9 March, Di María struggled to regain a starting berth as Van Gaal discovered his strongest XI.
(5) When they were safely berthed in different ministries, bankers bonuses was meant to be the issue on which the pair would have their showdown.
(6) Wigan, also chasing promotion and currently lying in a play-off berth, twice took the lead but they were pegged back by Leicester, firstly by Andy King before half-time and then by Hammond in the game's closing stages.
(7) If you're the Pittsburgh Steelers, you can't believe you came within a 10-point fourth quarter rally by the San Diego Chargers of stealing a playoff berth.
(8) Azpilicueta can then move to the right, leaving Branislav Ivanovic to fight it out for one of the berths in central defence.
(9) Of particular interest was how Kolarov, a left-back by trade, beat Vincent Kompany to a centre-back berth, the captain having to settle for a replacement role.
(10) However, the temporary fixation of head and neck region to the irradiation berth induces in many patients anxiety state and reduces this way the compliance.
(11) Arsène Wenger is convinced the 19-year-old will eventually graduate more permanently into a central midfield berth at the Emirates.
(12) In this case some of the players need to work a bit more to be in the first 11.” Vydra is competing against Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo for the main attacking berth.
(13) It featured Papiss Cissé stepping off the bench to score twice, Jack Colback looking England-class in the home midfield and Daryl Janmaat and Paul Dummett shining in the full-back berths.
(14) His turn of heel took him deep along the right before he squared to the 20-year-old Adnan Januzaj, who had taken Depay’s No.10 berth.
(15) Sorry Pa, I was a hopelessly inadequate left-back in my day, but I don't think I was quite slapstick enough to earn a starting berth in this Aston Vi ... what?
(16) THE TAMPA ABY ECONOMIC MIRACLE CONTINUES TO YIELD PLAYOFF BERTHS - they earn the fifth and final American League wild card spot with a 5-2 victory on the road over the Texas Rangers .
(17) 12.50am BST Predictions Okay, so before the series started I predicted Boston in 6, so that means I'm pretty much obligated to predict that Boston will clinch a World Series berth tonight.
(18) The Portuguese filled in at left-back and Bertrand pushed up into the unfamiliar midfield berth.
(19) The Da Silva brothers took up unusual berths on either wing, and it was Fábio who opened the scoring.
(20) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.
Breakwater
Definition:
(n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The breakwater was ultimately completed after much delay and extra expense.
(2) The beaches are sandy and pleasant for sitting on at low tide, with breakwaters every 100 metres or so that also act as windbreaks.
(3) A meeting meant to reassure Cornish householders over plans for his private company, Shire Oak, to reopen a quarry near the Lizard peninsula to provide rock for the Swansea Bay breakwater, only seemed to reinforce opposition.
(4) Last year alone, the island, not much bigger than a breakwater in the Oslo fjord, played host to visitors from 25 international media organisations, all keen to find out the secret of Nilsen's success.
(5) Reefs also play a crucial role as natural breakwaters, protecting coastlines from storms.
(6) "The collapsed wall has been shored up with material salvaged from the damaged section, a temporary breakwater made of shipping containers filled with waste has been erected off the coast, removal of the damaged platform continues, and work is estimated to be completed by 18 March," he said.
(7) Until the late 1980s, nestled behind the Yan Ma Tei breakwater in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay, you could find tens of thousands of boat-dwellers who formed a bustling, floating district.
(8) Public broadcaster NHK showed images of a large ship ramming into a breakwater in Kennuma city, Miyagi prefecture.
(9) To protect the site, 15 steel containers – weighing around 70 tonnes each – have been installed as temporary breakwater, and a scaffold bridge has been built to reconnect services and signalling equipment.
(10) Global warming, overfishing and human intervention – especially breakwaters that protect sandy beaches but provide a home for larvae – are all blamed.
(11) Chelsea’s Guus Hiddink envious of squad options available to PSG Read more Still, though, at times it was hard to avoid the impression as PSG’s attacks crashed against the Chelsea breakwaters that Ibrahimovic’s best qualities – virtuoso touches, the irresistible imperative that the team play through him – are less likely to unsettle the stronger teams in Europe than they are the routinely terrorised defences of Ligue 1.
(12) Breakwaters that made up the typhoon shelter also limited water circulation, leaving pollution to accumulate in the harbour .
(13) The project, which envisages an area of 11.5 sq km cordoned off by a breakwater, would have an installed capacity of 320MW with an annual output of 420GWh and a design life of 120 years.
(14) A public authority building a breakwater and other harbour facilities at a small seaport (population 3000) had short-term requirements for 261,000 tonnes of rock and ultimately for 1,000,000 tonnes.
(15) The Cornish stone would be used to build a six-mile long breakwater in Swansea amid hopes of generating significant shipping volumes in a newly-created marine conservation zone.
(16) When working to build big cement breakwaters, he slept on top of a container just off the coastal highway.
(17) In 2003 Eitan became logistics manager for a project to extend Ashdod's port breakwater, which is where he drowned.