What's the difference between canoe and waterman?

Canoe


Definition:

  • (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.

Waterman


Definition:

  • (n.) A man who plies for hire on rivers, lakes, or canals, or in harbors, in distinction from a seaman who is engaged on the high seas; a man who manages fresh-water craft; a boatman; a ferryman.
  • (n.) An attendant on cab stands, etc., who supplies water to the horses.
  • (n.) A water demon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She bounced back into the charts in 1989 with Another Place and Time, overseen by the British producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and the single This Time I Know It's for Real was a major international success.
  • (2) Increasing the sensitivity by setting ktup = 1 allowed FASTA to perform as well as Smith-Waterman on an additional 7 superfamilies.
  • (3) However, the P-450(11)beta precursor is not processed by mitochondria from a nonsteroidogenic tissue (heart), a result observed previously for the P-450SCC precursor (M. F. Matocha and M. R. Waterman (1984) J. Biol.
  • (4) Held in jail for a week, Ishi was later introduced to two anthropologists, Thomas Waterman and Alfred Kroeber, and helped them to transcribe his dialect at the Anthropology Museum attached to the University of California in San Francisco.
  • (5) Using the eight characteristics identified by Peters and Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence, the study analyzes 16 magnet hospitals to ascertain to what extent they possess characteristics similar to the 'best run' companies in the corporate community.
  • (6) Extremal properties, such as longest helical region, can now be studied with a new family of probability distributions [Arratia, R., Gordon, L. & Waterman, M. S. (1986) Ann.
  • (7) The period between the rise of Adam and the Ants and the collapse of Stock, Aitken and Waterman’s “Hit Factory” empire may prove to be the last truly great pop era, in that it produced not just great pop music, but great pop stars.
  • (8) Among his early clients were the pop songwriting and production team Stock Aitken Waterman , who introduced him to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.
  • (9) Their version of Band Aid , overseen by the Stock, Aitken and Waterman production team, featured a lineup who could baffle a crack pop investigations team 25 years on: D Mob!
  • (10) In these days of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, stale re-releases and crummy cover versions, an alternative rock scene can still feel proud and puffed up despite being tainted by its own decay.
  • (11) It was Minogue who, in the early 90s, decided to move away from her girl-next-door image and end her relationship with Stock, Aitken and Waterman in search of a more refined, adult direction.
  • (12) The annual ocular exposure was calculated from the age of 16 for each waterman by combining a detailed occupational history with laboratory and field measurements of sun exposure.
  • (13) The FASTA program using the ktup = 2 sensitivity setting performed as well as the Smith-Waterman algorithm for 19 of the 34 superfamilies.
  • (14) "The first time we recorded Kylie I remember Matt Aitken walking out of the studio and saying 'This girl has got a voice you will always, always remember'," says Waterman.
  • (15) Each set utilizes at least three of four separate poly(A)+ addition sites providing an explanation of the three sizes of adrenodoxin mRNA (1.75, 1.4, and 0.95 kilobases) previously observed in bovine adrenocortical RNA by this laboratory (Okamura, T., John, M.E., Zuber, M.X., Simpson, E.R., and Waterman, M.R.
  • (16) Using the eight characteristics identified by Peters and Waterman in their book In Search of Excellence (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), the study analyzes 16 magnet hospitals to ascertain to what extent they possessed characteristics similar to the best run companies in the corporate community.
  • (17) A first patent was registered in 1903, and Waldo Waterman’s “aerobile” went on its maiden flight in 1937.
  • (18) At recent protests in New York , Washington , London and Seattle , masked protesters held up boomboxes and chanted the Stock Aitken Waterman lyrics which Astley made famous.
  • (19) Using the Smith-Waterman algorithm, the same search takes 35 min.
  • (20) Pete Waterman, of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman songwriting team that signed Minogue on the back of The Loco-Motion's success, isn't surprised her Voice debut was a hit.

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