(n.) A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
(n.) The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
(n.) In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.
() imp. of Crow
(imp.) of Crow
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) Now serves as director of football and director of the academy at Crewe.
(3) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
(4) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(5) The authors describe the maternal transport and delivery of a neonate with a serious disorder that required specialized attention at an hour when most hospitals are staffed with a skeleton crew.
(6) Sigurdsson joined Reading as a youngster in 2005, and had loan spells at Crewe and Shrewsbury before breaking into the first team.
(7) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
(8) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
(9) Results of the model applied to several planning data sets (including a form of the Austin, Texas planning problem) demonstrate that more concentrated ambulance allocation patterns exist which may lead to easier dispatching, reduced facility costs, and better crew load balancing with little or no loss of service coverage.
(10) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
(11) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(12) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(13) Over on the smaller boat, Mbalo remembers one of the two crew members then descending to the lower decks.
(14) Inflight monitoring uses the macroanalysis of crew speech characteristics as an indicator of psychological state.
(15) Separately, the Guardian witnessed teargas being shot directly at a camera crew with al-Jazeera America.
(16) Still escorted by Hamas gunmen, Shalit was then taken to a border crossing, where an Egyptian TV crew interviewed him before he was finally sent into Israel.
(17) Staff had to make paper records of 999 calls in what one ambulance crew member described as “a shambles”.
(18) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(19) The Indonesian government has said it believes Australia paid the ship’s crew.
(20) I want to pay tribute to our cabin crew members who have been determined to achieve a negotiated settlement.
Trimmer
Definition:
(n.) One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
(n.) One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver.
(n.) An instrument with which trimming is done.
(n.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wood-trimmers' disease, generally called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which affects workers in sawmills, is thought to be caused by fungal diaspores.
(2) The other method was the use of an axial margin trimmer.
(3) Antibody levels in the newly employed wood trimmers were similar to antibody levels in wood trimmers who had already worked in the trimming department before the start of the study.
(4) Pulmonary function was studied in 66 wood trimmers exposed to organic dust (moulds) after a month of no exposure (summer vacation) and then three and 27 months later, and also during a working week.
(5) Antibody levels were significantly elevated after periods with high exposure compared to antibody levels in the same wood trimmers after periods with low exposure.
(6) The margins of the axial box as well as of the proximo-cervical curvature were significantly better finished with the EVA-System and the highly flexible file compared to the axial margin trimmer (p < 0.001).
(7) In a second treatment (Experiments 1 and 2), one-third to one-half of the beak was removed at 11 days of age with a hot blade beak trimmer.
(8) Since the trimmers do not have to be removed while this system is in use, there is no need to bypass the associated interlock system.
(9) The finishing time for the box margin was not significantly different using the EVA instrument or the axial margin trimmer.
(10) We have studied electron beam profiles with and without trimmers at the nominal source-skin distance of 1 m versus extended distances of 3-5 m. We find that the trimmers limit the field size and add little to the beam uniformity at extended distances.
(11) The study groups consisted of randomly selected 78 stevedores-trimmers and 84 mechanic equipment operators.
(12) The efficiency of the new device was compared with the axial margin trimmer by means of scanning electron microscopy and a score system.
(13) There were, however, large differences between the individual antibody levels of similarly exposed wood trimmers.
(14) Sera from 67 wood trimmers were analyzed by both methods.
(15) Fungal keratitis should be strongly considered as the cause of any corneal ulcer related to trauma from a nylon line lawn trimmer.
(16) Nylon line lawn trimmers represent a source of potentially devastating ocular trauma.
(17) The field size dependent photon output is known to be influenced by the existence of backscattered radiation (BSR) generated in the collimator or trimmer jaws of a linear accelerator.
(18) Darius is the head trimmer at Legend's, a smart London barber that specialises in traditional wet shaves.
(19) We managed three cases of fungal keratitis caused by injuries from nylon line trimmers.
(20) Playing the drag queen Albert in La Cage Aux Folles presented another difficulty: I had to ask my beloved to help me shave my entire body once a week with a beard trimmer.