(n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.
(n.) Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable for speed.
(n.) A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.
(n.) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catamaran-style “waste harvester” uses a system of interchangeable barges and on-board storage to continuously harvest surface waste without having to frequently return to shore to unload.
(2) He would like to have $10m a year to charter a new boat, a 45-knot Australian-built catamaran ferry named HSV-2 Swift, which is two and half times the size of the Phoenix.
(3) After lunch the catamaran’s port-side engine failed.
(4) Just on the stretch of coast road from Kamaishi to Otsuchi city, there is a four-door saloon wedged in the third-floor window of a primary school, a 25-metre catamaran perched on a building half its size and a 6,000-tonne container ship, the Asian Symphony, rammed through a concrete sea wall and now blocking one lane of the road.
(5) It's the jagged rocks framing the cove that make it so special, and nothing blocks the view east to the island of Alonissos except for the ferries and catamarans that pass in the distance every half hour.
(6) Every day, dozens of cruise ships and high-speed catamarans ferry the crush of tourists and revellers bound for the constellation of Greek islands in the east Mediterranean and Aegean seas.
(7) The first boat to moor in Dikili was a chartered Turkish catamaran, the Nazli Jale.
(8) Alternatively, make like you're in St Tropez by drinking in the views of Poole harbour from the luxury of a skippered catamaran or powerboat.
(9) Using the catamaran boat "Canvas-Back" during May 1987, a whole-population ocular survey utilizing modern equipment and ophthalmic subspecialists was conducted on one of the atolls (Wotje) in the Marshall Islands.
(10) As a result, the 20-metre catamaran has cost several million dollars to construct and has taken three years to reach its current design.
(11) Eventually the harbourmaster at Hayman Island came to our aid as night fell – but catamarans were permanently struck off our holiday list that day.
(12) Sports students would play in three fixtures with local teams and would be given “traditional evening entertainment”, a catamaran cruise, the option of going to a water park, and a special sports tour kit, the letter said.
(13) To further highlight the oceans' plastic pollution problems, the 30-year-old environment crusader has designed a special catamaran with a hull made of frames filled with 12,000 plastic bottles.
Dockyard
Definition:
(n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its recent decision to end Portsmouth’s role as a naval dockyard, the British government said recently that future warships - notably a new generation of frigates - would be built in Scotland only if Scotland remained part of Britain.
(2) On that occasion Devonport dockyard, in Plymouth, was the victor.
(3) In the period 1966-82 lungs from 333 workers who had been employed at a Royal Naval dockyard were referred to the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit where they were investigated for the severity of asbestosis, the presence of tumours, and an assessment of mineral fibre content and the type and amount of mineral present.
(4) Gordon Brown's new bag, made - unfathomably - by shipyard apprentices at a naval dockyard, is actually made from pine, like most good coffins.
(5) One civil defence paper estimated that up to 140,000 people could be injured and more than 20,000 killed if Liverpool’s dockyards were hit by lethal gases.
(6) In the early 1990s, the then defence secretary and Edinburgh Pentlands MP Malcolm Rifkind sacrificed thousands of jobs at the nearby Rosyth dockyard by giving the multi-billion pound Trident nuclear submarine refitting contract to Devonport dockyard in Plymouth, Saddler said.
(7) A few minutes' walk from Unicorn Gate is the historic dockyard , resting place of HMS Victory, the Mary Rose, HMS Warrior , the world's first iron-hulled, steam-powered warship.
(8) Filming has begun at locations including Chatham dockyard and Chertsey in Surrey.
(9) The conclusions are mainly in accord with those of the comprehensive morbidity study of all the civilian dockyard workers, and show that smoking played a large part in increasing prevalence rates of radiographic, clinical, and physiological abnormalities in this population.
(10) The former shadow work and pensions secretary will visit defence and energy industry workers across the UK, starting in Scotland at the Rosyth Naval Dockyard, where the final assembly of the Royal Navy’s two new £6bn flagship aircraft carriers is taking place.
(11) The incidence of chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes of 197 dockyard workers has been followed over a 10-yr period.
(12) One of the bar staff, Mary, said her husband, John, had been laid off from his job at the dockyard a few weeks ago.
(13) Portsmouth remains the home of the Royal Navy, with more than 10,000 jobs remaining in the dockyard.
(14) A bugler from inside the dockyard was practising the Last Post – probably only an unfortunate coincidence – as Jim Wheatcroft, 33, walked out.
(15) Lloyd's father, Ron, worked at the dockyard in the 60s.
(16) The money will expand the dockyard to ensure it is ready for the arrival of the Royal Navy’s biggest ever warships as well as the Type 45 destroyers which are based in Portsmouth.
(17) As part of a general morbidity study of all civilian employees in the four Royal Naval Dockyards, the clinical, radiological and physiological effects of exposure to asbestos in 1200 men aged 50-59 years were studied in detail.
(18) The problem is that the dockyard is in a densely populated area and, if there were an accident, thousands of people would be at risk.
(19) The core of the ferruginous bodies was chrysotile in 7 cases, and amosite fibers were frequently detected in the three cases from the Japanese naval dockyard.
(20) What Shakespeare didn't get from books, he could see in the London that surrounded him, particularly after James I ascended the throne in 1603: the cosmopolitan throng of merchants clustered around the Royal Exchange; the Jews, Spanish "blackamoors" and other religious refugees living nearby; the dockyards, echoing with voices from Europe and much further overseas; the ambassadors and tourists who came to pay court (and see drama) at Whitehall; the stock-market buzz about companies setting out to explore new worlds, east and west.