What's the difference between camber and deck?

Camber


Definition:

  • (n.) An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).
  • (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
  • (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
  • (v. i.) To curve upward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The kinematic parameters of push time, push angle, and abduction showed differences between 3 and 6 degrees camber.
  • (2) If the same-sized valves of this two kinds are used, the hemodynamic parameter of cambered bileaflet valve would be better than those of yak pericardiac valve.
  • (3) 'Last time there was one of them here, down by Camber Sands?'
  • (4) There was also a significant difference (P less than 0.05) when +0.174 and -0.174 rad camber were compared to 0 rad camber during both the support and swing phases of flexion-extension.
  • (5) A triaxial elgon was used to measure the movement of each subject's right and left knees when running on a horizontal or laterally inclined treadmill at 2.4 m.s-1 during each experimental condition (on the horizontal surface and on cambers of +0.087, +0.174, -0.087, and -0.174 radians).
  • (6) Pyrolytic carbon cambered bileaflet valve developed by Chengdu University of Technology and Sciences was evaluated for its hemodynamics.
  • (7) My colleague Simon Cambers points out that she is only the sixth woman since 2000 to reach the semis at the first three grand slam events of the year.
  • (8) Today's skating technique does not require any waxing and only the cambered portion of the ski is waxed when performing the diagonal stride.
  • (9) My colleague, Simon Cambers, says he's played wearing sunglasses and it's really hard.
  • (10) "You have to be quite gentle, especially in Sochi because there is a bit of a camber so even though you think you can see what is going on you also have to feel through your body."
  • (11) My colleague Simon Cambers is poring over the numbers and thinks he would go 11th.
  • (12) Eight nonimpaired subjects participated in a wheelchair exercise test using a motor-driven treadmill in order to study the effect of rear wheel camber on wheelchair ambulation.
  • (13) The material is much thinner than before, and its camber can be varied during cruising for greater efficiency.
  • (14) Surface camber mean values for +0.087 and -0.087 rad were significantly different (P less than 0.05) during the swing phase for internal and external rotation.
  • (15) There was a significant difference (P less than 0.05) between +0.174 and -0.174 rad camber mean values for all six dependent variables (i.e., support and swing, flexion-extension, internal and external rotation, and valgus-varus range of motion).
  • (16) The surviving members of the Camber family, Cujo's owners, buy a new dog.
  • (17) In our view, however, in this case Jeremy Clarkson deliberately employed the offensive word to refer to the Asian person crossing the bridge as well as the camber of the bridge.” Ofcom noted that the sequence was scripted in advance and clear consideration had been given to the use of that particular term, to formulate what was intended as a humorous word play around it.
  • (18) Under anaesthesia, cardiopulmonary bypass and chemical cardioplegia, a cambered bileaflet valve (i.d.
  • (19) The purpose of this study was to determine the three-dimensional kinematics of the knee joint during running on level surfaces and surfaces of different degrees of camber.

Deck


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover; to overspread.
  • (v. t.) To dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
  • (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
  • (v.) The upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.
  • (v.) The roof of a passenger car.
  • (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
  • (v.) A heap or store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
  • (2) She said: "I was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air when I saw a winter jacket in the water.
  • (3) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
  • (4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
  • (5) In Streatham, south London, for example, one user is offering her garden for £20 a night – and there are even deck chairs provided.
  • (6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
  • (7) Altogether 23% of deck officers serving throughout the study and 43% of engine-room ratings had one or more absences.
  • (8) Open daily noon-1am The Hudson Bar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Idiosyncratically decked out in antique bric-a-brac, this busy, multistorey cafe-bar and music venue has one of Belfast’s most comprehensive craft beer ranges.
  • (9) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (10) Christina was killed in a random attack on the top deck of a bus in Birmingham as she travelled to school.
  • (11) If ergonomic adaptation of the flight deck is impossible, anthropometric limits for pilot selection have to be employed.
  • (12) Thus, with the qualifications that college students were tested instead of pilots and that they performed monocular laboratory tasks imstead of binocular flight-deck task, it is concluded that 24-h rhythms in accommodation responses need not be considered in setting visual standards for flight-deck task.
  • (13) Use of the various areas of the pens was determined during a 24-h observation and by a videotape recording of the double-decked pens during the daylight hours.
  • (14) They are stunned beside their tank, a few seconds out of the water, rather than hauled out of the sea by net to die on a trawler deck.
  • (15) "With those stakes, the response must be all hands on deck.
  • (16) Decked in red shirts, the handful of supporters – mostly relatives – have tried to keep up the pressure with daily protests.
  • (17) Or it takes her much longer to shuffle the deck of cards than you thought."
  • (18) They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck.
  • (19) The triple-decked and sequentially produced components of the mammillary system may arise from separate neuroepithelial sites.
  • (20) Its giant playing area for handball and volleyball is now decked out with campbeds.