(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.
Position
Definition:
(v. t.) To indicate the position of; to place.
(n.) The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
(n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
(n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
(n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
(n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(3) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(4) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(5) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(6) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(7) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
(8) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
(9) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(10) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(11) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
(12) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(13) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
(14) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(15) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(16) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
(17) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(18) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(19) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(20) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.