(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”.
Dish
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
(n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
(n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
(n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
(n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
(n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
(v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.
(v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
(v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(2) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(3) The densities of hepatocytes attained with PVF were about 10 times as high as those in the monolayer culture using conventional collagen coated Petri dishes.
(4) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
(5) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(6) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
(7) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(8) Culture dishes precoated with thin layers of acid soluble rat tail collagen simplify conditions necessary to obtain in vitro high IgG anti-DNP responses from primed and boosted mice.
(9) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(10) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(11) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(12) Confluent monolayers of the fibroblasts were grown in petri dishes.
(13) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
(14) Thus, human peripheral T lymphocytes coated with mouse monoclonal antibodies directed against the CD4 marker may be selectively and reproducibly removed from a lymphocyte population by a short incubation in modified plastic dishes coated with rabbit anti-mouse IgG antibody.
(15) The division block is independent of cell density in suspension culture and is not prevented by cell contact when cells grow attached to Petri dishes.
(16) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
(17) Wide-eyed, tentative and much given to confidences – her voice falls to an eager whisper when she's really dishing – she seems far younger than her years.
(18) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(19) Trypsinized epidermal cells were plated at nonconfluent concentrations in dishes coated with a collagen type I gel.
(20) We cultured thymic cells derived from various mouse strains on extracellular matrix coated tissue culture dishes, in the presence of conditioned medium.