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.

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