(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”.
Tug
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
(v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
(v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
(v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
(n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
(n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
(n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
(n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
(n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
(4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
(6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
(8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
(9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
(10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
(11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
(12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
(13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
(14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
(15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
(16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
(17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
(18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
(19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
(20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.