(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.
Ship
Definition:
(n.) Pay; reward.
(n.) Any large seagoing vessel.
(n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
(n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
(v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
(v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
(v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
(v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
(v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
(v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
(v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
(v. i.) To embark on a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.