(v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.
(v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(2) Whiskey and sugar careening through my system, I defy the orders on my ticket not to photograph anything, and I tweet a picture of the bar menu.
(3) And suddenly the whole thing is careening out of control and the fact that you put Heidi Alexander at health and Lucy Powell at education and chose your first female shadow defence secretary in Maria Eagle gets lost; because the first thing you did was to announce four white men shadowing the major offices of state, alongside another elected as deputy leader.
(4) The effect was to create a situation not unlike the careening bus in the movie Speed.
(5) Click here In the summer of 1962, all eyes were on a little magnesium and aluminium capsule, not much bigger than a beach ball, careening round the Earth in a low, egg-shaped orbit.
(6) The point is, today everyone can see that the system is deeply unjust and careening out of control.
(7) After her release from prison she has tried to explain what kind of changes she and Maria want to see in the penal system, and careened quickly and hopelessly into bureaucratese: Russian does not have a language for discussing social and legislative change any more than it has a language for discussing feminism.
(8) The American rescue squad consisted of a Toyota Land Cruiser, probably manned by fellow CIA agents, that careened through the streets towards Davis.
(9) It’s like a car where none of the gears work and you’ve no idea if you’re going at 90mph or 30mph and you’re just careening.
(10) Whether they come in time to slow the planet’s careening new physics is an open question, but at last the political and financial climate has begun to change almost as fast as the physical one.
(11) Many deliverymen do use bikes to pedal around their neighbourhoods – perhaps Cairo's most fearless road-users are the cycling bakers who careen through traffic jams balancing vast trays of bread on their heads.
(12) When the locomotive and the first three carriages have gone careening off the tracks, there's little point in checking the schedule to see if it's going to get to the station on time.
(13) Remarks that would end most political careers have only helped the New York businessman in the polls as he has careened from controversy to controversy in the past few months.
(14) Trump’s campaign has careened from controversy to controversy during a terrible week and has alienated many in his own party by pursuing an ongoing feud with the family of a fallen Iraq war hero and his initial outright refusal to endorse Paul Ryan, the highest ranking elected Republican in the United States.
(15) Then he returns to his call for cooperation: "This town has to get past its obsession with focusing on the next election instead of the next generation... "Certainly what we can't do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis."
(16) But while plans for pipelines remain in the pipeline, some experts claim Jakarta is careening towards the point of no return.
(17) There are times, watching current events unfold, when I'm convinced that we've all landed in some massive time machine that's sent the nation careening back into, say, 1963.
(18) It starts out with great promise, incredible characters, and perfectly-honed jokes before it falls victim to its own careening plot structure and becomes an absolute ludicrous mess where the characters don’t behave like themselves and arbitrary events occur with no rationalization whatsoever.
(19) Despite the lake, the Chinese government is continuing to invest in the road, participating in an upgrade programme originally supposed to cost £320m to widen and resurface a route that is notorious for vehicles, including fully loaded buses, careening into deep ravines.
(20) Jane and Bingley live just 30 miles away, Mrs Bennet remains at a conveniently inconvenient distance, and all is highly felicitous – until the night when a carriage careens out of the wind-lashed darkness and disgorges Elizabeth's wayward sister, Lydia, screaming that her husband, the nefarious Wickham, is dead.
Carene
Definition:
(n.) A fast of forty days on bread and water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The essential oil and delta-3-carene both produced qualitatively similar changes in rat uterine contractions caused by oxytocin (a progressive dose-related modification of the concentration-response curves) and acetylcholine (non-progressive modification of the concentration-response curves).
(2) alpha-Pinene, beta-pinene, and 3-carene were practically insoluble in water and limonene was slightly soluble; all were readily dissolved in olive oil.
(3) Oil of turpentine is still a common allergen in Portugal although it does not contain delta 3-carene, as ascertained by gas chromatography.
(4) When anti-inflammatory activity against both acute (carrageenin-induced plantar edema) and subchronic inflammation (granuloma technique) was assayed, quantitative differences came to light: the essential oil of the Cázulas Mountains population was most active against acute inflammation owing to its high delta 3-carene content, whereas the Quéntar Reservoir essential oil of B. gibraltaricum was most effective against granuloma induced inflammation.
(5) The federal government is turning out a predator to steal private property with no compensation Caren Cowan, New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association “It threatens families, it threatens their pets, it threatens their private property,” said Caren Cowan, executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association .
(6) The blood clearance of 3-carene observed in this study, 0.9 liter.kg-1.hr-1, indicates that 3-carene is fairly readily metabolized.
(7) All three essential oils were very similar in chemical composition, consisting mainly of monoterpenic hydrocarbons (delta 3-carene and alpha-pinene).
(8) Oil of turpentine has become an infrequent allergen because of its replacement by the petroleum product white spirit, its deliberate exclusion from industrial products, and because the balsam oils used nowadays do not contain the sensitiser delta 3-carene.
(9) 4 patients were sensitive to delta 3-carene, 3 to alpha-terpineol and 2 to beta-pinene.
(10) This appeared to be due to the delta-3-carene component.
(11) Terpenes, especially 3-carene, may irritate the skin and mucous membranes and prolonged exposure may result in allergic contact dermatitis or chronic lung function impairment.
(12) Urine from sawmill workers exposed to alpha-pinene, beta-pinene and delta-3-carene was collected and hydrolyzed with beta-glucuronidase at pH 5.0 for 24 h at 37 degrees C. After hydrolysis the urine was cleaned on a SEP-PAK C18 cartridge.
(13) Thirteen characters were used from the synlophe (rotation of axis, presence of carene, carene asymmetry, presence of comaretes, single ventral comarete length, ridge discontinuity, ventral ridge numbers, presence of a peculiar posterior synlophe, presence of supernumerary spines) and the male caudal bursa (relative length of rays 9 and 10, caudal bursa type, division of the dorsal ray, divergence of the 10th rays).
(14) Efficient methods are described for the derivatization and separation of sub-milligram quantities of the enantiomers of alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, camphene, sabinene, alpha-thujene, limonene and 3-carene, as well as of structurally related alcohols and ketones.
(15) The difference in airway resistance after exposure to a high concentration of 3-carene compared to control level was not significant (P = 0.02).
(16) Rate coefficients for the ozone reaction are given for beta-pinene, limonene, delta 3-carene, cineol, vinyl chloride and 1,3-butadiene.
(17) One of the mutagenic compounds of the fumes is probably 3-carene.
(18) We are now at the point where demand in our system is outstripping supply for even the most senior water rights holders,” said Caren Trgovcich, chief deputy director of the State Water Resources Control Board.
(19) The toxicokinetics of 3-carene were studied in human volunteers exposed by inhalation (2 hr 50 W) in an exposure chamber on three occasions.