(v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.
(v. i.) To wander hither and thither on land.
(n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(2) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(3) He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys.
(4) For voluntary services to the Elderly and People with Disabilities through the Seagull Trust Cruises in Ratho, Midlothian.
(5) But as we’ve gathered data, we’ve realised that there are more and more reports that people are using cruise ships in order to get to launch pads, if you will, sort of closer to the conflict zones of Syria and Iraq.” Cruise ships, which often make repeated stops, offer an added benefit by allowing would-be jihadis to hop off undetected at any number of ports making efforts to track them more difficult.
(6) Isner wrapped up the first set in 49 minutes and then cruised through the second two untroubled in the hot conditions in front of almost 7,000 fans.
(7) On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria .
(8) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(9) Cruise, who appeared with Nicholson in 1992's A Few Good Men , told his former co-star he would not do the film without him.
(10) Maybe Tom Cruise can do it,” he said with the afternoon’s first hint of a smile.
(11) A previously quiet stadium erupted and the home side looked like they would cruise into half-time.
(12) If you lose an engine in a cruise it doesn’t fall out of the sky,” he said.
(13) Some county officials believe the port area, a global hotspot for cruises and already inhabited by the Miami Heat basketball team, can’t handle any more traffic and has no room for the expected 5,000 cars descending upon every game.
(14) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(15) For London's mayor had not only long refused to meet the RMT leader, but only a month before rather encouraged the public to misunderstand him by making hay with Crow's supposedly hypocritical cruise trip and accusing him of "holding a gun" to the head of the capital ?
(16) We can’t escape each other and get on our iPhones.” Malta, one of the European Union’s most southerly points, was an ideal starting place for a three-week cruise to Tunisia and along the coast of Sicily, not far from Calabria, the southern toe of Italy .
(17) Retrospective review of medical logs from two cruise ships' hospitals.
(18) Five Tunisia terror victims were passengers on Costa cruise ship Read more Facing the prospect of a collapse in tourism, a pillar of Tunisia’s troubled economy, President Beji Caid Essebsi ordered troops onto the streets for the first time since the 2011 Arab spring revolution.
(19) When Cruise announced last October that he was suing Bauer, his lawyer, Bert Fields, described the claim that the actor had deserted his daughter as a “vicious lie”.
(20) Ian Cruise, an independent councillor in Birmingham who resigned as a prison officer at the West Midlands jail in July, said it was an “absolute madhouse” and should be taken back from G4s control.
(n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
(n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
(n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.
(n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.
(n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
(n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.
(n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(3) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(4) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(5) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(6) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(7) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(8) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(9) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(10) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(11) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
(14) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(15) This article describes the development of REHAB, a behavior rating scale for use with people with chronic psychiatric disability, which has been carefully designed with respect to content, format, and ease of use.
(16) This modification allows for precision of movement, ease of repositioning, and adaptation of rigid skeletal stabilization of mobilized osseous segments in the chin.
(17) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
(18) Clinical open trials of beta-methyldigoxin were carried out in 15 institutions in order to examine the effect, usefulness and ease of its oral administration.
(19) The ease of use of this form of DRB typing is emphasized and potential complications are discussed.
(20) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.