(n.) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.
(n.) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.
(n.) A small fishing boat used on the French coast.
(n.) A Turkish man-of-war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bilbao is a great sea-port: is its new museum a ship in disguise, a spectral memory of the great caravels that carried gold back from the New World to enrich Spain half a millennium ago?
Portuguese
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
(n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps there were some other generations in Portuguese football with more talent, but they didn’t win.
(2) He has won the Belgian title and two Portuguese championships.
(3) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(4) Our Pi S frequency was similar to that found in a French group and lower than that of Spanish and Portuguese groups.
(5) Here's the details: • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS FRENCH DEFICIT AT 4.1% OF GDP IN 2013, 3.8% IN 2014, 3.7% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS ITALIAN DEFICIT AT 3.0% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.7% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS SPANISH DEFICIT AT 6.8% OF GDP IN 2013, 5.9% IN 2014, 6.6% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS GREEK DEFICIT AT 13.5% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.0% IN 2014, 1.1% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS PORTUGUESE DEFICIT AT 5.9% OF GDP IN 2013, 4.0% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS CYPRUS DEFICIT AT 8.3% OF GDP IN 2013, 8.4% IN 2014, 6.3% IN 2015 Sony Kapoor of the ReDefine thinktank tweets that the forecasts show that European leaders should not be talking about the crisis being over, even though the risk of the euro breaking up has receded.
(6) In this context, the present article makes an analysis of the main ethical and legal problems posed by HIV infection, in the framework of Portuguese law, with special focus on: a) Conflict between the necessary protection of public health by the State and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens; b) Inadequacy of the existent laws to fight contagious diseases to HIV infection; c) Discrimination; d) Testing and compulsory hospitalization versus informed consent; e) Confidentiality; f) Voluntary contagion.
(7) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
(8) The amyloid fibril protein seen in patients of Portuguese, Japanese, and Swedish descent in the U.S. mainly consists of a variant form of transthyretin (also called prealbumin) with the substitution of methionine for valine at position 30.
(9) In addition, 319 Portuguese blood donors (46 of whom have lived in Angola or Mozambique) were screened using the same radioimmunoassay.
(10) The girl's mother, aged 45, and her 40-year-old partner, both of Portuguese origin and unemployed, live in a village near the garage.
(11) I thought between 2007 and 2013 [when the Portuguese was at Internazionale and Real Madrid] was enough time for Wenger to forget this.
(12) 14 patients with verified moderate contact allergy to colophony were patch tested with adhesive mass (10%), Portuguese colophony (10%), zinc oxide (10%), purified resin acids (10%), and Portuguese colophony (10%), in combination with zinc oxide.
(13) Their Portuguese manager, Carlos Quiroz spoke of the team’s readiness to do business – despite pundits writing the team off as the competition’s underdogs.
(14) A 9 year old Portuguese boy presented with severe wasting and a disseminated cryptococcal infection that resolved after massive doses of intrathecal and parenteral antifungal agents.
(15) It occurs in patients of Portuguese Azorean extraction.
(16) Chelsea were already down to 10 men, after the sending-off of Thibaut Courtois, Sky Sports released video footage of the moment Mourinho lost his temper with his medical staff which appears to show the Portuguese calling one or both of them “son of a bitch”.
(17) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.
(18) Mike van Dulken (@Accendo_Mike) Portuguese GDP upside suprise adds to FR and DE this morning.
(19) In a Portuguese-American family with hereditary amyloid neuropathy (familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy), onset was in the seventh decade in all affected relatives.
(20) The data excludes widespread sympatho-neural failure as a cause for postural hypotension in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy of the Portuguese type.