(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck.
(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick.
(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.
(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.
(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2.
(v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up.
(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.
(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pilgrims have been undeterred by the collapse of a construction crane in Mecca earlier this month, which killed more than 100 people and injured at least 200.
(2) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(3) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(4) Video of Mecca pilgrim on 'hoverboard' divides opinion Read more The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose country is home to tens of millions of Muslims, said on Twitter: “My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in the crane crash in Mecca.
(5) The ONS said employees working in lower skilled jobs, such as crane drivers and heavy goods vehicle drivers, worked the longest paid hours a week in the UK at a respective 52.8 and 48.4 hours – longer than the 48-hour limit set in the EU Working Time Directive, for which UK employees have a right to opt out.
(6) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
(7) The tail of the plane, with its red AirAsia logo, was lifted out of the water on Saturday using giant balloons and a crane.
(8) Historically, this was the farm and winery of the château of Saint-Victor des Oules, but it's been sympathetically converted into eight houses and apartments (sleeping from two to six people) by its British owners Emma and Michael Crane, who moved here with their young family in 2012.
(9) In the weeks that followed, the crosses on 15 churches in the Wenzhou region were destroyed and removed by crane.
(10) This week we see that the ramifications of corporate prostitution continue to hurt her as juniors (looking at you, Harry Crane) use the knowledge of what happened to both blackmail the company and denigrate her.
(11) Filming was difficult in 3D and 10,000ft up a mountain, requiring 70ft camera cranes and a 100 crew.
(12) They waited, swaying like new calves, still wet from their tarry sacs, swinging umbrella-sized cranes.
(13) Workers in the following job categories experienced the highest annual mean PbB levels: paste machine operators (battery plants), solder-grinders (assembly plants), and crane operators (foundries).
(14) During the first meiotic division in crane-fly spermatocytes, the two homologs of a metaphase bivalent each bear two sister kinetochores oriented toward the same pole.
(15) Areas of reduced birefringence (ARBs) produced on chromosomal fibres of crane-fly spermatocyte spindles by ultraviolet microbeam irradiation move poleward.
(16) Engineers have beefed up the cranes that will move the fuel.
(17) We subjected individuals of four species of cranes (Anthropoides virgo, Balearica regulorum, Grus grus and Grus japonensis) to acute heat stress to investigate the effectiveness of this trait as a thermoregulatory adaptation.
(18) Mark Crane also emails: The main fights usually start with ring entrance about 10pm Central USA (4amBST?)
(19) Bird and the cast have shot only 20 seconds or so, after being flown out to Malia last year to film a sweeping crane shot of them walking along a Cretian nightclub strip.
(20) However, only alanine aminotransferase was higher in clinically affected cranes than in normal cranes collected from the same area.
Shipbuilding
Definition:
(n.) Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(2) Instead the textbook simply reads: "Traditional industries, such as shipbuilding and coal mining, declined ... during her premiership, there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK".
(3) South Australian MPs were concerned if Japan was awarded the contract local shipbuilder ASC would miss out on the chance to build the submarines.
(4) Everyone expects it to be curtains for shipbuilding.
(5) He recalls, with admiration, the late Jimmy Reid , one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders eight-month work-in in 1971-72 – after a Conservative government initially refused to give the company, which had a full order book, a bridging loan to secure its future.
(6) 1.30pm GMT Hammond says there is only enough demand for one shipbuilding centre in the UK.
(7) Capital which might have been invested in the UK catching up went elsewhere, when quite sensibly those with said capital observed that it could get much higher returns if invested in sectors and other markets that did not have the problems inherent in British shipbuilding and heavy industry.
(8) The contracts were first promised in the lead up to the Scottish independence referendum, during which the impact of leaving the UK on the future of shipbuilding on the Clyde was a key issue.
(9) And it might provide some hope to shipbuilding workers on the Clyde.
(10) A validation study was undertaken to evaluate the accuracy of this information collected from 100 workers in a shipbuilding industry.
(11) Cormann said the appointment of US shipbuilding expert Mark Lamarre as interim chief executive of ASC Shipbuilding had made a difference to the project.
(12) Asked about this, Hammond said the decision to end shipbuilding in Portsmouth was taken by BAE Systems.
(13) To investigate the relationship between occupation and lung cancer, a case-control study was performed in the province of Trieste, Italy, where metallurgical and mechanical industries, dock activities and shipbuilding and ship repairing are predominant.
(14) Consequently, and subject to consultation with trade union representatives, the Company proposes to consolidate its shipbuilding operations in Glasgow with investments in facilities to create a world-class capability, positioning it to deliver an affordable Type 26 programme for the Royal Navy.
(15) The government also had mixed and confused messages about whether the prime minister had changed the bidding process for the next generation of submarines, worth more than $20bn, in order to win a few votes from the shipbuilding state of South Australia.
(16) The ending of more than 500 years of naval shipbuilding in Portsmouth will inevitably lead to laments about Britain's industrial decline.
(17) The multimillion-pound contract was announced in February 2015, having been delayed until after the Scottish independence referendum, during which the future of shipbuilding on the Clyde was a key issue.
(18) Noise-induced hearing loss and noise annoyance were observed far more frequently in the shipbuilding department in comparison with the machine shop.
(19) If shipbuilding is wound down at Portsmouth, the MoD will have to bear costs that could run into hundreds of millions of pounds under a 2009 agreement guaranteeing BAE a minimum of £230m a year in shipbuilding and support work over 15 years.
(20) In the interim period, a proposed contract for the manufacture of three Offshore Patrol Vessels, announced today, will provide additional capability for the Royal Navy and sustain key shipbuilding skills.