(n.) A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
(n.) Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
(n.) A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
(v. t.) To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.
(v. t.) To place in a boat; as, to boat oars.
(v. i.) To go or row in a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(2) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(3) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(4) As 1,000 fishing boats were on their way to the islands the Chinese know as Diaoyu and the Japanese call the Senkaku, the People's Daily warned on Monday that the incident could lead to a full-blown trade boycott.
(5) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(6) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
(8) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(9) The Coalition and Labor share the policy of not offering resettlement to people who try to reach Australia by boat.
(10) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(11) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(12) Another 500 people were rescued from four different boats on Tuesday, the coastguard said in a statement.
(13) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(14) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
(15) I must say that for the time being we are still missing some boats and aerial means.
(16) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(17) It was quoted in the grand jury indictment, and later a larger portion was included in one of the prosecution’s filings in the case: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thermal image released by the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing, shows the boat in which Jahar hid.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
(19) Five men were confined on a boat for fourteen days.
(20) First, the argument that balanced budgets and economic growth inevitably lead to a fairer society because “all boats rise on a rising tide”.
Bott
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Example Sentences:
(1) Integration of pCIS7 into the wild-type (Tcs) B. subtilis chromosome and amplification of the plasmid sequences generated a Tcr phenotype, even though the DNA on pCIS7 was cloned from Tcs B. subtilis KS162 (Ives and Bott, J. Bacteriol.
(2) A factor analysis was used to determine whether induced loudness adaptation (Botte, Canevet, & Scharf, 1982; Scharf, 1983) and adaptation measured by Hood's (1950) classic Simultaneous Dichotic Loudness Balance technique (SDLB) would cluster on the same factors.
(3) Five years ago the school was "crazy and unsafe", said principal Andrew Bott, who was tasked with turning it around.
(4) An intermittent tone in one ear may induce a large decline in the loudness of a continuous tone in the contralateral ear [Botte et al., J. Acoust.
(5) Over the weekend at the Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon in San Francisco, Australian duo Jethro Botts and David Boulton jumped on stage to present Titstare, an app that lets you "stare at tits".
(6) Gove asked Bott how he swiftly reformed the school.
(7) Bott, K. F. (The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.), and R. Davidoff-Abelson.
(8) Three roller-bottes were seeded with venous, and another three with arterial derived endothelial cells for each of three "oxygen saturations" 5, 20 and 50% O2 respectively, and incubated for seven days and then counted.
(9) Examination of residual King-Altman patterns for the general modifier model of Botts & Morales [(1953) Trans.
(10) Since its Km for actin is similar to that of tryptic SF1(A2), it may be concluded that changes in the affinity of SF1 for actin induced by trypsin [Botts, J., Muhlrad, A., Takashi, R., & Morales, M. F. (1982) Biochemistry 21, 6903-6905] are not dependent on the presence of the associated alkali light chain.
(11) One of the boldest things Bott did was cut spending on security and funnel the funds into arts.
(12) Keith Bott, who runs Titanic Brewery with his brother Dave, operating eight pubs in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, said: “To make that extra £1,000 that we now won’t have to pay, we would have had to sell £2,000 worth of beer.
(13) I cannot find mention of Botts, Boulton or Titstare, which would suggest that not only did the organisers allow a breach in process, they have tried to hide the details by removing any reference to the pair.
(14) David Bott, director of innovation programmes at the Technology Strategy Board , which will work with Nesta to develop the prizes, said: "If you set the challenge in the right way, you unlock the creativity of the community rather than limiting it with our own lack of it."
(15) Bott, Thomas L. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Janet S. Deffner, Elizabeth McCoy, and E. M. Foster.
(16) Bott and Ultsch (1986) observed that the subtilisin BPN' structure is very tolerant of single mutations, and this tolerance may have been necessary for survival of the enzyme during the course of evolution.
(17) Howevever, David Bott, director of innovation programmes at the Technology Strategy Board , has previously told the Guardian he was sceptical that such charging lanes would be practical: "It's scientifically feasible, but it's whether it's scalable and feasible is another matter."
(18) Kinetic analysis of the extended Botts-Morales mechanism describing irreversible enzyme inactivation has demonstrated that analytical expressions describing the time-course of product formation may be derived for a stable modifier by retaining the usual steady-state assumptions regarding the fluxes around ES and EXS provided quasi-equilibrium modifier binding to E and ES is assumed, but for unstable modifiers all of the binding steps must be assumed to be at quasi-equilibrium in the steady-state, except under restrictive circumstances.
(19) It should be looked into in a transparent way,” Bott said.
(20) Analytical expressions describing the time-dependence of product formation have been derived in coefficient form amenable to non-linear regression analysis for two operationally distinct types of reaction mechanism dependent on whether the reaction of the unstable modifier (X) with either or both the free enzyme (E) and enzyme-substrate complex (ES) occurs as a simple bimolecular process, or proceeds through the intermediacy of either or both adsorptive enzyme-modifier (EX) and enzyme-modifier-substrate (EXS) complexes in what may be considered as an extension of the Botts-Morales general modifier mechanism for (stable) reversible enzyme inhibitors and activators.