(n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder.
(n.) A boat made of bark or skins, used by savages.
(n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast.
(v. i.) To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) This involved 29 miles cycling, 12 miles running and finally 18.5 miles canoeing.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) There was a bit more canoeing to see on the lake after that triumph.
(4) Several privately owned canoe and kayak rental agencies offerguided and independent trips down the Mullica, Batsto, Oswego and Wading rivers.
(5) 2.11am BST Pablo Cesar Cano vs Ashley Theophane The first fight of the night will be Mexican Pablo Cesar Cano against Britain's Ashley Theophane.
(6) Right now those two teams are the Royals and the Oakland Athletics , with Robinson Cano’s Seattle Mariners still alive, albeit on life-support.
(7) Down at the beach, there’s always a canoe arriving on shore with fresh fish; or you can hide yourself way in the pousada’s meditation lounge, content with a soundtrack of tropical birds.
(8) The AP’s first published results were based on samples taken along the shores of the lagoon where rowing and canoeing events will be held.
(9) It is the perfect environment for canoeing, with the warm weather and warm water.
(10) The Netherlands’ Pesse canoe dates from around 10,000 years ago.
(11) Canoeing and kayaking are upper-body sports that make varying demands on the body, depending on the type of contest and the distance covered.
(12) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(13) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(14) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(15) Twelve common Polynesian plants, 8 of which were probably brought in the canoe voyages perhaps 1500 years ago from southern and central Polynesia, constitute the most commonly used plants by Hawaiians for medicinal purposes.
(16) "This has transformed public policy by putting protection of life as an ultimate aim, taking police away from a victory mindset," says Cano.
(17) Each night brought the excitement of finding the perfect camping spot in a grassy dell or spotless beach and the opportunity to explore using the Canadian canoe that we towed behind the raft.
(18) On Saturday night he is on the undercard of a Floyd Mayweather pay-per-view extravaganza in boxing's capital city and, if he beats the very good young Mexican Pablo César Cano, his mentor has promised him he will do everything he can to get him a world title shot at welterweight, a hot division.
(19) And we used to take them canoeing and have camping holidays.
(20) 2.21am BST Pablo Cesar Cano vs Ashley Theophane: Rounds one and two The Mexican started strongly but Theophane came back in the second half of that opening round.
Canon
Definition:
(n.) A law or rule.
(n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
(n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
(n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
(n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
(n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
(n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
(n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
(n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
(n.) See Carom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a sample of 170 patients the psychopathological contents of the AMP system and the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) were compared by canonical correlations.
(2) Canonical discriminant function analysis of the relationship between these predictor variables on the first testing and whether participants (a) returned for retesting, (b) did not return because of apparent disinterest, or (c) did not return because of illness or death, revealed two significant canonical variates.
(3) Previous studies have documented transcription initiation sites and nuclease hypersensitive sites upstream of the epsilon-globin canonical cap site in K562 cells.
(4) The increased specificity of restriction endonucleases in the presence of spermidine is due to an enhancement of the cleavage rate at the canonical site and a slowing down of the cleavage rate at related sites.
(5) Canonical structures are not available for H3 due to its variability in length, sequence, and observed conformation in known antibody structures.
(6) A canonical promoter "TATA" box is located 30 base pairs upstream of the Cap site.
(7) The first canonical correlations were significant between risk factors and both sets of anthropometric variables (skinfolds, 0.36-0.46; circumferences, 0.39-0.54).
(8) Tyr1235 lies within the tyrosine kinase domain of p190MET, within a canonical tyrosine autophosphorylation site that shares homology with the corresponding region of the insulin, CSF-1 and platelet-derived growth factor receptors, and of p60src and p130gag-fps.
(9) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
(10) Darkroom measures of tonic accommodation were determined using the infrared objective autorefractor, Canon Autoref R-1.
(11) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(12) Resulting from the apparent use of a cryptic splice acceptor site in place of the canonical intron 5 site, this insertion is predicted to generate an in-frame insertion of five nonpolar amino acid residues within a highly polar region of the intracytoplasmic domain of the H-2K polypeptide.
(13) The findings were compared to those reported by Canon (1970) and were applied to a reassessment of the "visual capture" phenomenon.
(14) The output relation for the canonically simplest class of self-regulated incompletely coupled linear energy converters has been shown to be identical to the Hill force-velocity characteristic for muscle.
(15) The flanking regions of the gene contain the canonical elements typical for initiation and termination of transcription of yeast protein coding genes.
(16) It follows from the model that modifications of the first anticodon residue of the P-site tRNA can affect the stability of the A-site duplex, and that the translation of a DNA single chain analogue of mRNA should be accompanied by non-canonical base pairing at all three positions of the codon.
(17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(18) This work proposes that the approximately 200-residue binding segment of the canonical cytokine receptor is composed of two discrete folding domains that share a significant sequence and structural resemblance.
(19) Associations were examined by use of linear correlation, stepwise multiple regression, and canonical correlation analyses.
(20) We also found that a single OmpR-binding site can activate the ompC promoter, providing that the binding site is close and placed stereospecifically with respect to the canonical-35 and -10 regions.