What's the difference between culver and culvert?

Culver


Definition:

  • (n.) A dove.
  • (n.) A culverin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's introduced by his roommates to beautiful, mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young, and the story progresses, mostly centered around Miles' life at Culver Creek and his growing attachment to Alaska.
  • (2) John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International, said: "Kris brings a great deal of operational and public affairs experience to the role, and is an ideal candidate to continue the momentum Starbucks has achieved in this region.
  • (3) Culver argues that proceeding with such training without obtaining family permission can lead to great harm when relatives or the community discover that the hospital's doctors are practicing procedures on the dead.
  • (4) In their book Culver and Gert define irrational action in the context of medicine and psychiatry.
  • (5) beta-Adrenergic agonists mediate an increase in beating rate in embryonic chick heart prior to ingrowth of the vagus nerve (Culver, N. G., and Fishman, D. A.
  • (6) And as “the big four” take investment money to grow, smaller coffee shops – the young indies – will not only fill the space but expand on it by relying on hyper-local focus, transparency and sustainable initiatives like solar-powered spaces (like Salt Lake City’s Publik Coffee Roasters ), minimizing their menus (Culver City, California’s Bar Nine) and even forsaking brick and mortar for a recycled airstream (Seattle’s Slate Coffee ).
  • (7) However, Pete D’Alessandro, a longtime operative who served as the political director for former Iowa governor Chet Culver, noted that Clinton doesn’t need to be “Jimmy Carter … and spend 150 days” campaigning in Iowa .
  • (8) Her broad lead over Sanders has all but disappeared, hence her furious pace: San Diego, El Centro, Perris, Culver City, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, San Bernardino, Sylmar, Oxnard, Santa Barbara, Fresno, Oakland, Vallejo, Sacramento, Lynwood, South Los Angeles.
  • (9) This is because, on Culver and Gert's definition of 'malady', menopause, menstruation, and pregnancy become maladies.
  • (10) These included George J. Bucknall, Alfred E. Regensburger, Douglass W. Montgomery, Howard Morrow, Harry E. Alderson, George D. Culver, Ernest D. Chipman, Hiram E. Miller, and Lawrence R. Tuassig.
  • (11) Definitions of paternalism found in the works of Gerald Dworkin, Allen Buchanan, Bernard Gert and Charles Culver, and James Childress are analyzed and found defective when tested against various counterexamples.
  • (12) It is also argued that malady claims are normative in a way not recognized by Culver and Gert.
  • (13) However, they catch a break when Culver interferes with Smith, first down.
  • (14) • Culver Parade, Sandown, 01983 404344, dinosaurisle.com .
  • (15) Culver and Gert define 'malady' in their book Philosophy in Medicine.
  • (16) Last year, John Culver, the president of Starbucks international division, said: "We are very pleased with the performance in the UK."

Culvert


Definition:

  • (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He mentions practical measures that are needed such as heat wave action plans, elevating critical infrastructure and increasing the size of culverts and drainage pipes.
  • (2) Work is already in hand to take the River Roch out of its culvert and give the town hall prettier surroundings, but years of neglect and council-inspired vandalism will have to be rectified in the building itself.
  • (3) The destabilisation of bridges, weirs, culverts and river walls, whose foundations are undermined by deepening the channel: "If the river channels are dredged and structures are not realigned, 'Pinch Points' at structures would occur.
  • (4) Compared with the management methods of: 1) open to the estuary with culverts and, 2) passive retention of water with flapgate risers, RIM proved to be significantly more effective in reducing mosquito production.
  • (5) There are endless numbers of people responsible for things like ditches, drains, culverts, and sewage.
  • (6) This weekend the EA celebrated the new era in east London, where the once featureless Sutcliffe Park has had the river Quaggy liberated from an underground concrete culvert into the newly moulded landscape.
  • (7) Over two years, the management regimes of: 1) opening a southeast Florida salt marsh impoundment to the adjacent estuary with culverts through the dike, then, 2) passively retaining water with flapgate risers was studied to determine the effects on marsh flooding and resultant mosquito production.
  • (8) The nearby village of Walsden was hit by up to 46cm of water, causing "sheer devastation", according to residents, as it poured from a culvert and down a side street, ripping huge chunks out of the road surface and destroying the road.
  • (9) From inflated insurance premiums to the alleged need to belatedly dredge waterways, their aftermath is often talked about using a strange mixture of official speak and hydrological arcana such as culvert and bund - respectively, an underground water channel and defensive embankment.
  • (10) The IRA had built an enormous bomb inside a culvert under the road, and when it was detonated by a control wire, the Cortina was hurled 70ft in the air.
  • (11) The first epizootic was discovered in 22% of clams collected as Searsport near Long Cove Brook and three culverts that conveyed heating oil and jet fuel spilled from a tank farm in 1971.
  • (12) Improvements included "an expensive cattle kraal with a culvert and chicken run, a swimming pool, an amphitheatre [and] marquee area", as well as "extensive paving and the relocation of neighbours who used to form part of the original homestead".
  • (13) Severe flooding in nearby Lewisham town centre in 1968 prompted building of the Sutcliffe Park concrete culvert, whose smoother channel would more rapidly carry water surges away.

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