(n.) A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
(2) Thus early neurosurgical operations were performed by Carl Daniel von Haartman in Finland and by Christopher Withusen and Gundelach Møller in Denmark.
(3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(4) This surgical procedure was made by microsurgery using a Carl Zeica amplification optic lens 2,3 X and a OFMI microscope with an amplification lens 40 X.
(5) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
(6) The present study reports the age specific prevalence rate of tumors in autopsies of the years 1958--1969, registered in the Medical Academy "Carl Gustav Carus" Dresden.
(7) The groundwork for spa facilities intended for the treatment of children was performed by Dr. Carl von Mettenheimer in Schwerin with the foundation of a "Verein für die Errichtung von Kinderheilstätten an deutschen Seeküsten" ("Association for the Establishment of Pediatric Sanatoria on German Coasts").
(8) Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Animal collector Carl Hagenbeck with his sons and a Bengal tiger, 1907.
(10) Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate armed services committee, told the Detroit News on Monday that he was not sure air strikes "make sense," saying that "we ought to be mighty damn cautious" before launching them.
(11) His killing was condemned by the United Nations, the British ambassador and many prominent Swedes, including the former prime minister Carl Bildt.
(12) When Rory McIlroy is hitting hole-in-ones and Carl Frampton is swinging knock-out punches, we cheer together.
(13) The Medical Academy in Dresden bears his name "Carl Gustav Carus" since its foundation.
(14) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
(15) If we’d had a qualifier, we would have said: ‘Look, we need you for this,’ but we have Carl Jenkinson who can play there.
(16) In a press conference, senators Carl Levin and Jeff Merkley said they drew up the so-called Volcker rule in order to curtail bets like the one made by JP Morgan .
(17) The room held 52' Carl Hutchinson My childhood hero was World Wrestling Entertainment's Mick Foley .
(18) He took them to the Carling Cup final, to a play-off place and just lost out and the following season took them to the championship and promotion.
(19) "I think this could be a good thing for Spain in a strange way as it will make them realise that some players will need to go before the next World Cup (Arbeloa, Torres etc) and maybe blood some of the younger ones (take your pick from the under 21s)," writes Carl Finch.
(20) That day, the European Union’s special envoy, Carl Bildt, met Mladic and Miloševic while the killing machine was at full throttle, though he seems not to have mentioned the massacre.
Carving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carve
(n.) The act or art of one who carves.
(n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.
(n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Example Sentences:
(1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(2) In stage I, a tympanoplasty is performed before transplantation of the carved cartilage framework.
(3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(4) "We carved out a few chances, but it was tough to break them down."
(5) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(6) Syria’s five-year conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, with Kurdish groups carving out their own regions and periodically battling groups from Syria’s Arab majority, whose priority is to overthrow Assad.
(7) It has been awfully hard-won, carved slowly out of a big block of human agony.
(8) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(9) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
(10) By the end of the year, Koizumi's displaced will have moved into homes being built in an area carved into a mountaintop two miles from the coast.
(11) He has urged the prime minister to carve out a British business bank from RBS and give it a mandate to expand rapidly to help cash-starved small businesses, as well as supporting exports and other sectors identified as strategically important.
(12) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(13) A new instrumentation for posterior spinal surgery consists of metallic rods carved with diamond-shaped asperities on which vertebral hooks or screws can be screwed in any position, level, or degree of rotation.
(14) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(15) His face was found carved into tree trunks all over Celtic lands and his hold over the early Britons was so powerful that early Christians relented and adopted the green man's image as a force for good and a symbol of new life and renewal.
(16) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(17) But as the dust settled, the spacecraft's cameras looked down on a landscape carved by ancient river systems.
(18) That would imply setting a global carbon budget of how much the world could emit in future, which would then have to be carved up among all countries.
(19) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(20) It is possible Aquascutum could be carved up between the two, as YGM wants its south-east Asian operations.