(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.
Shift
Definition:
(v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
(v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
(v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
(v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
(v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
(v. t.) The act of shifting.
(v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
(v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
(v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
(v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
(v. t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
(v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(2) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(3) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(4) When Sprague-Dawley-S9 or Wistar-S9 were used for activation, the enhancement of IQ mutagenesis by tryptamine shifted to inhibition at tryptamine concentrations > 40 microM, with Sprague-Dawley-S9, and > 20 microM, with Wistar-S9.
(5) In a control study an inert stereoisomer, d-propranolol, did not block the ocular dominance shift.
(6) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
(7) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(8) These results indicate that during IPPV the increased Pcv attenuates the pressure gradient for venous return and decreases CO and that the compensatory increase in Psf is caused by a blood shift from unstressed to stressed blood volume.
(9) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(10) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(11) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(12) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
(13) Volume measurements were made in 26 patients to determine tissue loss and volume shifting by ROI.
(14) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(15) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(16) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(17) Within the high-SR or medium-SR groups, the fibers with the lowest thresholds had the largest threshold shifts.
(18) NPR reported that investigators have not found telltale signs associated with Islamist radicalization , such as a change in mosques or abrupt shifts in behavior or family associations.
(19) Of the 88 evening-shift cardiac arrests during this time, one specific nurse (Nurse 14) was the care giver for 57 (65%).
(20) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .