What's the difference between cove and stern?

Cove


Definition:

  • (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  • (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  • (n.) A concave molding.
  • (n.) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  • (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  • (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  • (n.) A boy or man of any age or station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 2.56pm GMT 12.51pm GMT They also think the worst is over at the Cove House Inn, according to Steven Morris.
  • (2) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
  • (3) This paper reviews the first seven days of the Station's role at Anzac Cove, during which time this essentially inexperienced medical unit treated and evacuated an estimated 2700 wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers.
  • (4) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (5) The transient decrease in left circumflex coronary artery blood flow during atrial contraction (atrial coves) was examined in open-chest, heart-blocked dogs.
  • (6) Right diastolid flow runoff, including the cove late in diastole, resembled left circumflex runoff.
  • (7) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
  • (8) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
  • (9) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
  • (10) They landed on the beach at Anzac Cove at 11 a.m. on 25th April 1915, and remained on a 20 metre stretch of beach through eight months of the Gallipoli campaign.
  • (11) 'Something I think people will like is that it's a girl (not a boy) who is adventurous, strong and brave' said Bookworm88, in her review of Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John 'What I loved most was the chance to read about children whose lives are very different from mine", wrote Lottielongshanks of Sky Hawk, by Gill Lewis We'd like to find out about more books that show different lifestyles and break the stereotypes.
  • (12) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
  • (13) According to local boatmen, the Rothschilds use this military-style craft to whisk their guests at a speed of 50 knots directly from the airport to a corner of north-east Corfu where the secluded coves and remote luxury villas have become a discreet playground for the rich and powerful to mix business and pleasure.
  • (14) Fifteen dolphins were taken on Sunday from the cove via sling and transferred to the Taiji harbour sea pens and several captive facilities in Taiji, the group said on its Facebook page .
  • (15) "Our losses in 2012 were devastating," said Matt Schlapp, a consultant with Cove Strategies.
  • (16) Photograph: Steven Morris Across the road from the Cove House Inn, at Brandy Cottage, Shaun Souster was mopping out his porch after seawater poured in.
  • (17) steven morris (@stevenmorris20) They've reopened the storm shutters on the Cove House Inn.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer is calling on volunteers living near beaches such as Eastney (near Portsmouth), Exmouth (Devon), Chesil Cove (Dorset) and Hayle Towans (Cornwall) to help clean and survey the affected areas during its Big Beach Clean-up between 24 and 30 April.
  • (19) Porth Iago and Porth Ferin, near Aberdaron, Gwynedd Porth Iago beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith These two coves are separated by a short walk along one of the newest parts of the Wales Coast Path.
  • (20) Designated the casualty clearing hospital, it was called a Casualty Clearing Station on the beach at Anzac Cove in the Gallipoli campaign.

Stern


Definition:

  • (n.) The black tern.
  • (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
  • (v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
  • (v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
  • (v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
  • (v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
  • (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (3) Quenching of intrinsic fluorescence of (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase by acrylamide, performed in the presence of Ca2+, gave evidence for a single class of tryptophan residues with Stern-Volmer constant (KSV) of 10 M-1.
  • (4) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
  • (5) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
  • (6) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
  • (7) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
  • (8) The influential economist, Lord Nicholas Stern, welcomed the proposal as "strong and reasonable" and "with the interests of developing countries at its heart".
  • (9) Tryptophanyl fluorescence of the lipoprotein assembly was quenched as indicated by a reduction in the effective Stern-Volmer constant.
  • (10) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
  • (11) 3.43am BST Spurs 57-56 Heat - 6:15 remaining, 3rd quarter And some thoughts via email from Daniel Vazquez-Paluch: I can't help wondering if LeBron is a victim of Stern's rule changes more than his own tendency to disappear.
  • (12) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
  • (13) Treatment with chymotrypsin to block the E1 to E2 transition results in a new set of quenching parameters which are unchanged with Na or K. Even after detergent denaturation (1% sodium dodecyl sulfate for 30 min), Stern-Volmer plots are nonlinear, and a significant fraction of tryptophan residues remain inaccessible to quencher.
  • (14) (At the time, he told shockjock Howard Stern on the record that he approved of it.)
  • (15) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
  • (16) At low quencher concentrations, the quenching follows the classical Stern-Volmer law.
  • (17) A couple of times I’ve raised my voice, been stern and they’ve responded.
  • (18) Quenching of pyrene fluorescence emission of labeled ATPase by acrylamide and cesium chloride gave linear Stern-Volmer plots.
  • (19) In a wide-ranging news conference at the end of the G7 summit in the Wetterstein Mountains in Germany, Obama issued a stern warning against Russia, accepted praise for the work of US prosecutors at confronting corruption in world soccer, gave the US supreme court advice on how to rule in an upcoming healthcare case and defended his immigration policies.
  • (20) Orthodontic treatment in those days, like life in general, was simple and stern.