(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.
Harbour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
(2) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(3) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
(4) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
(5) Faecal samples of the Romanov ewes more often harboured Nematodirus eggs while the larvae recovered from cultures of these samples contained a higher percentage of Teladorsagia.
(6) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(7) Previous use of metronidazole was reported in only 16 patients, 11 of whom (68.8%) harboured resistant Helicobacter pylori strains.
(8) The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+).
(9) c. Even within the overall normal range of duct diameter (less than 12 mm) the wider the duct, the greater is the chance of it harbouring a stone.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
(11) G. vaginalis was found in high concentrations in 73% of those harbouring this bacterium.
(12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(13) The state premier, Mike Baird , also requested the French flag fly over the harbour bridge.
(14) A purified, functionally active DNA binding protein and a pool of random double-stranded oligonucleotides harbouring PCR primer sites at each end are included the TDA cycle which consists of four separate steps: a DNA protein incubation step, a protein DNA complex separation step, a DNA elution step and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification step.
(15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
(16) Twelve differently-sized plasmids from 1.8 to 63 kbp were identified in those strains harbouring extrachromosomal DNA.
(17) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
(18) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
(19) This scientific advice will also form the basis of a new report card that will ensure the community is informed of the health of the harbour in an open and transparent way.
(20) At both sampling dates, the most heavily infected 25% of the community harboured over 90% of the total pinworms recovered.