What's the difference between bowsprit and steeve?
Bowsprit
Definition:
(n.) A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
Example Sentences:
(1) The C ring of the vindoline moiety is in the boat conformation with the hydroxy group and the tertiary N in the bowsprit positions resulting in a fairly short intramolecular hydrogen-bonding interaction.
Steeve
Definition:
(v. i.) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
(v. t.) To elevate or fix at an angle with the horizon; -- said of the bowsprit, etc.
(v. t.) To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. See Steeve, n. (b).
(n.) The angle which a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel; -- called also steeving.
(n.) A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales, and similar kinds of cargo which need to be packed tightly.
Example Sentences:
(1) To localize the virus gene involved in influencing the host range, we cloned and sequenced the env gene of the BB6 variant of FV (Steeves et al., Int.
(2) Richard Steeves, Synergy’s boss, and two other Synergy directors will join the board.
(3) The long terminal repeat regions of F-SFFVA and the Lilly-Steeves strain of F-SFFVP were also sequenced and compared with each other and with a previously published sequence of another F-SFFVP long terminal repeat.
(4) Steeve Briois, the NF secretary general, said: "The French are showing a wish to take their destiny into their hands and give back their country its sovereignty."
(5) RB virus was produced by passing high titers of the wild-type Friend virus (Lilly-Steeves polycythemia-producing strain) through adult Fv-2rr mice.
(6) Senior officials including Florian Philippot, Le Pen’s chief political adviser, and Steeve Brios, her replacement as party president during the campaign, confirmed the planned name change.
(7) Steeve Briois , another of the party’s four vice-presidents, would take Jalkh’s place, Aliot said.
(8) Analyses of the kinetics of env protein synthesis and secretion in NRK cells infected with the Lilly-Steeves strain of SFFVp indicated that this product, gp65, was formed rapidly and remained stably associated with cells for up to 4 hr, at which point it was first detected in supernatant medium.
(9) A colinear molecular clone of the Lilly-Steeves polycythemia strain of Friend spleen focus-forming virus (SFFV) was modified by inserting a 215-base-pair tag of simian virus 40 DNA into its nonfunctional pol gene region.
(10) USA 87:9985-9989, 1990), they are susceptible to some variants of FV (R. A. Steeves, E. A. Mirand, A. Bulba, and P. J. Trudel, Int.
(11) All the candidates were idiots talking rubbish.” In Hénin-Beaumont, where Le Pen voted on Sunday, the Front National vice-president Steeve Briois was enjoying lunch in the Café de la Paix, as a steady stream of locals came to shake his hand.
(12) A., Robins, H. I., Steeves, R., and Bryan, G. T. (1984) Cancer Res.