(n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
(n.) One who sails near the shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
(2) Thus for many, the IVF-ET procedures were like an emotional roller coaster on which they experienced a wide range of feelings during a brief period of time.
(3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
(4) The reality is that life’s a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
(5) Gift shops were selling artists' posters, greeting cards, mugs and coasters for a fraction of the price.
(6) Then, in an unrelated incident two weeks after the shooting, the town's famous Grade II listed roller-coaster, which featured in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, was subject to a major arson attack that destroyed almost a third of its frame.
(7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
(8) But it is the hosts who seem more anxious ahead of a potentially roller-coaster match against opponents of reliably relentless energy and craft.
(9) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
(10) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
(11) The diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor can thrust a patient and family onto an emotional roller coaster.
(12) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
(13) Then there are the plates, the coasters, the Christmas ornaments.
(14) The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.
(15) The news comes after a roller-coaster week for the president, who disappointed many with a lacklustre performance in the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney , before Friday brought encouraging news on the jobs front .
(16) A second fear survey which contained duplicate items from the first was administered to the same students in a laboratory setting prior to watching videotaped scenes of fish, rats, mice and a shorter roller coaster ride.
(17) Days after the roller-coaster was torched, two men strolled into the Tivoli arcade, one of the few remaining on the seafront, and doused its slot machines in petrol before setting them on fire, causing £500,000 of damage.
(18) That means the markets will go up and down like a roller coaster, and it will be hard to hold on.
(19) Tea is served on souvenir coasters from Manchester, the city she represents in parliament, and to which she returns each Friday.
(20) The roller-coaster is on prime land just behind Margate's sea front where a number of other buildings have been torched in mysterious circumstances.
Saucer
Definition:
(n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.
(n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
(n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape.
(n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
(n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
Example Sentences:
(1) So intense was the pre‑match excitement in Dortmund over the return of the prodigal Jürg – much of it media-led – that walking around this flat, functional city on the afternoon of the game you half expected to stumble across Klopp shrines, New Orleans-style Klopp jazz funerals, to look up and find his great beaming visage looming over the city like some vast alien saucer.
(2) Two different flying saucers can appear on screen – a large one that fires inaccurately, and a smaller one that is much more deadly.
(3) And these are not just breadsticks and saucers of olives, but a choice of sizeable, filling mini-meals.
(4) The opening lines sounded a bit like a personal manifesto for a new kind of lightness (they were, he later claimed, something of an admonition from Rachel): "No more going to the dark side with your flying saucer eyes.
(5) The guidelines now being proposed by Mr Abbott mean that basically the only thing the CEFC could invest in is flying saucers, because anything that is any closer to development than that, Mr Abbott has conveniently saying is an established technology.” Shorten said is “personally supportive” of having the CEFC continue beyond 2020.
(6) The saucer-like defects of lymphocyte migration that are present in the basal lamina beneath the squamous epithelium of the skin were not observed in rat foregut.
(7) Rising 70 metres above the treetops on the edge of Flushing Meadows in New York are a trio of concrete watchtowers, their circular platforms topped with rusting rotor blades, like flying saucers retired from service.
(8) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
(9) Of these cases, 71.4% were treated by saucerization, followed by secondary closure or by skin grafting.
(10) People often proclaim: "I won't believe in ghosts [or flying saucers, angels, etc.]
(11) The preferred treatment is repair of the posterior capsular disruption with saucerization of the remaining meniscus.
(12) The edges of the defects were usually thickened; in some areas they were saucer-shaped but in two cases there was erosion of the outer table of the skull at a distance from the margin of the defect, the erosion being related to an extracranial fluid-filled cavity in continuity with a porencephalic cyst.
(13) It started to produce super-stable, saucer-like short boards designed to make it virtually impossible to catch an edge.
(14) Cup by saucer, manufacturing was farmed out – to Indonesia in the case of Royal Doulton – and hundreds of years of Irish and English glass and ceramic making began to topple.
(15) In addition, the use of the SA primer (3% N-methacryloyl 5-aminosalicylic acid in 80% ethanol) and the LVR (visible light-cured, 33% microfilled low viscous Bis-GMA resin) dramatically improved the adhesion and adaptability of the composite restoration in the saucer cavity at the cervical area.
(16) restorations with margins located 50 per cent in dentine and 50 per cent in enamel) using Scotchbond VLC or Scotchbond 2 bonded to dentine in conventional and saucer-shaped cavities were evaluated.
(17) With further incubation, some of these colonies do not increase in diameter (arrested dome), some form an expanding annular monolayer of cells around the central mount (fried egg), and some grow by enlarging the central mound into a low multilayered disc (saucer).
(18) His Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, a flying saucer on a stalk outside Rio, has some of the worst spaces ever conceived – all sloping walls and curves and glass in the wrong places – for showing art.
(19) We all remember the terrible letdown of The Phantom Menace , all of us saucer-eyed nostalgists and nerds excitably gathered outside the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End, ready for the first-ever showing, and hardly able to believe that it was actually happening.
(20) The treatment consisted chiefly of sequestrectomies and saucerizations supported by 3--12 months of lincomycin treatment.