(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.
Jargon
Definition:
(n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang.
(v. i.) To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner.
(n.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
(2) But an experienced senior officer said Hogan-Howe had impressed since becoming temporary commissioner, telling junior officers what he wanted in "jargon-free and clear language."
(3) Jargon incorporated familiar intonational contours and prosodic features to convey emotional states and communicative functions.
(4) Behind these numbers, behind this legal jargon are actual families who have not had justice for decades and decades … some of this can get glossed over when you’re just thinking about it in policy terms.
(5) Such attitudes toward illness were found in 19 of 20 jargon subjects, and seven of the comparison group.
(6) Carbon dioxide's production of greenhouse gas is not factored into its price – in the jargon, an unpriced externality, he says.
(7) According to the criteria of intelligibility, phonemic and semantic paraphasias in spontaneous speech, 4 forms of Wernicke's aphasia are differentiated: 1) with predominantly semantic paraphasias, 2) with semantic jargon, 3) with predominantly phonemic paraphasias and 4) with phonemic jargon.
(8) Some former communist countries, known in the jargon as "countries in transition", were allowed to chose a different date because after the collapse of communism many closed heavy industries.
(9) Lethal strikes by CIA drones – including two this week alone – have combined with the monitoring and disruption of electronic communications, suspicion and low morale to take their toll on al-Qaida's Pakistani "core", in the jargon of western intelligence agencies.
(10) Such jargon can be clarified by questions asked at the moment of discussion.
(11) Mobile X-ray generators vary widely in design, cost and radiographic performance and the new designs of recent years have led to the introduction of jargon.
(12) It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law .
(13) Disease-specific dementias, pseudodementia, and delirium are three clinical situations that may or may not be classified as "reversible dementias," depending on individual training, custom, and jargon.
(14) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
(15) You have to try and understand the jargon in a room full of white people – who say they know what is best for you.
(16) These strategies include employing attentive patient care, attending to the use of jargon, and using self-empowering language.
(17) As an academic, he was stern – particularly on bad writing and jargon, for which he had Orwellian distaste.
(18) In campaigning jargon, Rahman knows how to maximise his core.
(19) In Whitehall jargon, the deals are “bespoke” – in short, varying in significant details – with Greater Manchester getting responsibility for a £6bn budget to integrate health and social care .
(20) And, although services like BBC One are far more distinctive, to use the jargon, than they used to be – more origination, much less acquisition, more news, drama, documentary, less entertainment than in the past.