(n.) Any structure or contrivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The breakwater was ultimately completed after much delay and extra expense.
(2) The beaches are sandy and pleasant for sitting on at low tide, with breakwaters every 100 metres or so that also act as windbreaks.
(3) A meeting meant to reassure Cornish householders over plans for his private company, Shire Oak, to reopen a quarry near the Lizard peninsula to provide rock for the Swansea Bay breakwater, only seemed to reinforce opposition.
(4) Last year alone, the island, not much bigger than a breakwater in the Oslo fjord, played host to visitors from 25 international media organisations, all keen to find out the secret of Nilsen's success.
(5) Reefs also play a crucial role as natural breakwaters, protecting coastlines from storms.
(6) "The collapsed wall has been shored up with material salvaged from the damaged section, a temporary breakwater made of shipping containers filled with waste has been erected off the coast, removal of the damaged platform continues, and work is estimated to be completed by 18 March," he said.
(7) Until the late 1980s, nestled behind the Yan Ma Tei breakwater in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay, you could find tens of thousands of boat-dwellers who formed a bustling, floating district.
(8) Public broadcaster NHK showed images of a large ship ramming into a breakwater in Kennuma city, Miyagi prefecture.
(9) To protect the site, 15 steel containers – weighing around 70 tonnes each – have been installed as temporary breakwater, and a scaffold bridge has been built to reconnect services and signalling equipment.
(10) Global warming, overfishing and human intervention – especially breakwaters that protect sandy beaches but provide a home for larvae – are all blamed.
(11) Chelsea’s Guus Hiddink envious of squad options available to PSG Read more Still, though, at times it was hard to avoid the impression as PSG’s attacks crashed against the Chelsea breakwaters that Ibrahimovic’s best qualities – virtuoso touches, the irresistible imperative that the team play through him – are less likely to unsettle the stronger teams in Europe than they are the routinely terrorised defences of Ligue 1.
(12) Breakwaters that made up the typhoon shelter also limited water circulation, leaving pollution to accumulate in the harbour .
(13) The project, which envisages an area of 11.5 sq km cordoned off by a breakwater, would have an installed capacity of 320MW with an annual output of 420GWh and a design life of 120 years.
(14) A public authority building a breakwater and other harbour facilities at a small seaport (population 3000) had short-term requirements for 261,000 tonnes of rock and ultimately for 1,000,000 tonnes.
(15) The Cornish stone would be used to build a six-mile long breakwater in Swansea amid hopes of generating significant shipping volumes in a newly-created marine conservation zone.
(16) When working to build big cement breakwaters, he slept on top of a container just off the coastal highway.
(17) In 2003 Eitan became logistics manager for a project to extend Ashdod's port breakwater, which is where he drowned.
Groin
Definition:
(n.) The snout of a swine.
(v. i.) To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
(n.) The line between the lower part of the abdomen and the thigh, or the region of this line; the inguen.
(n.) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.
(n.) The surface formed by two such vaults.
(n.) A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.
(v. t.) To fashion into groins; to build with groins.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(2) In the other, the proximal fibula was excised and the epiphysis placed across the saphenous artery and vein in the groin.
(3) Modified radical mastectomy with transplantation of the nipple in the groin for possible breast reconstruction was performed in a patient.
(4) Thirteen myoplasties using the sartorius muscle were performed on 12 patients from 1980 to 1985 for "healing problems" in the groin with subjacent synthetic grafts.
(5) Attention to the problem of groin hernia problems has focused on the primary type of operative repair.
(6) In 28 patients peripheral lymphadenopathy was present, with involvement of the lymph nodes in at least two areas besides groins in 15 cases (40.5%).
(7) Forty recurrences occurred at the groin, 80 in the thigh and 97 in the calf.
(8) Certain features in the operative technique are emphasized which should prevent many of these complications.Intraoperative complications during the groin hernia repair are primarily hemorrhage and injury to the vas deferens, the three nerves in the area, the vascular supply of the testis, and the abdominal and pelvic viscera.
(9) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
(10) From ancient times, both the transabdominal (posterior) and the groin (anterior) approach have been used either singly or in combination in the management of inguinofemoral herniation.
(11) Parietal repair according to the Shouldice technique consists of a double line of sutures on each of three musculo-aponeurotic layers of the groin, i.e.
(12) In Group I (N = 45), the AVCO femoral conduit surgical technique was used; in Group II (N = 93), the Percor balloon was inserted either in the operating room after groin cutdown (open insertion) or percutaneously in the intensive care unit (percutaneous insertion).
(13) All the cases described to date have presented exclusively in the groin, a feature which has been regarded as distinctive.
(14) Faecal specimens were cultured daily for E. coli as were swabs from the rectum, groin, umbilicus, head, hands und mouth.
(15) Seventeen of 22 cells excited by UBD also received convergent somatic input from noxious squeeze of the hip, groin, or perineal regions.
(16) He gets Cespedes to ground out to Cabrera and I am starting to become uncomfortable with the sheer number of times I'm hearing the word "groin".
(17) One of seven patients had groin metastases, none died of cancer, and one of seven developed local recurrence in the vulva.
(18) According to our experience large prosthetic repairs are not necessary for the common case of recurrent groin hernia, but may be useful in specially selected situations.
(19) The prognosis may be quite good for patients with MUO limited to lymph nodes in the mid to high cervical, axillary, and groin areas.
(20) Robin van Persie will probably not be there either, having missed the last four games with his groin injury and with Moyes admitting he did not know when the Dutchman would be back.