(n.) A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Ministry of Defence said on Thursday that the dhow had been hijacked by pirates to use as a base and was involved in attacks on merchant shipping.
(2) However, Vice Admiral Style said the boarding of the dhow had taken place 7.5 nautical miles south-east of the al-Faw peninsula in Iran.
(3) Both go to sea in the same places, in same sort of dhows and armed with the same type of guns.
(4) The vice admiral said the Iranians had given two different positions for where they claimed the Royal Navy boarding party - seized after they had made a routine boarding of an Indian-flagged dhow suspected of being used to smuggle cars - had been.
(5) To these mosquitoes, we must add the record of A. aegypti larvae on a dhow berthing in Djibuti while this mosquito does not exist actually in the Territory.
(6) The coastal towns of Eyl and Garacad in the north, and of Hobyo, further south, have been the focus of Nato's attention, and by carefully mapping which dhows are moored where, the warships can tag the ones they want to track.
(7) She travelled to the mainland by dhow and moved around occasionally by train, but mostly on foot.
(8) On Sunday, a Lynx helicopter operating from HMS Cornwall confirmed the position after flying over the dhow, whose position had not changed since Friday's incident, according to its captain.
(9) aegypti larvae were collected on a dhow arriving in Djibouti.
(10) The ministry said pirates had been holding a Pakistani crew of 20 hostages on board and that the navy closed in on the dhow last Friday.
(11) The pirates take to the seas off the Horn of Africa in small dhows, and even smaller skiffs, armed with old machine guns and pistols, wearing flip-flops, and gambling that they will be able to hijack a vessel before they run out of food or water, or drown.
(12) Wooden dhows bring cattle from Somalia, passengers embark after a torturous 30-hour sea journey from Djibouti, and cargo ships empty cement on to the shore at what is now the country’s only functioning port.
Dow
Definition:
(n.) A kind of vessel. See Dhow.
(v. t.) To furnish with a dower; to endow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two major facilities of the Western Division of Dow Chemical USA are located fortuitously within an area covered by the population-based California Tumor Registry, which allowed linkage of records to identify incident cancers among 1,403 male workers.
(2) The Dow Jones industrial average added 64.15 points, or 0.4%, to close at 15,301.26.
(3) This is a community where readers' patience for mediocrity is measured in seconds not minutes," added Thomson, the former Times editor who moved to New York to run the WSJ at the end of 2007 following Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the paper's publisher, Dow Jones.
(4) After losing 434.36 points, or 3.28%, over the past two days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average held roughly steady following Obama's speech.
(5) Rattled investors brace for big week as Federal Reserve considers rate increase Read more The Dow Jones industrial average fell 114 points, or 0.7%, to 16,528.
(6) Wall Street opened in the red, with the Dow Jones down 70 points or 0.45%.
(7) Giovanny Moreano (@GiovannyMoreano) S&P 500, Dow, & Russell 2000 open at a new record; NASDAQ hits 4000.
(8) In New York the Dow Jones index closed down more than 170 points.
(9) The quality and integrity of the Vedomosti editorial team is outstanding and both the FT and The Wall Street Journal plan to continue licensing content to Vedomosti to provide high-quality, international news to readers in Russia,” said Pearson and Dow Jones.
(10) Last week the Dow enjoyed its best rally of the year, in part on hopes of a concrete solution to the eurozone crisis.
(11) 9pm BST: In fresh gloom on Wall Street, the Dow sheds 449 points to close at 10,609.
(12) So the Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently down 57 points or 0.3%, which has helped knock European indices off the day's highs and has pushed the FTSE 100 into negative territory.
(13) In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average index lost 1,000 points last Monday – a day dubbed Black Monday by Xinhua, China’s official news agency.
(14) The Dow Jones index fell 200 points at one stage in morning trading in New York after the US labour department reported that 500,000 new claims for unemployment benefit were filed in the week ending 14 August – an increase of 12,000 on the previous week and the highest figure for nine months.
(15) Traders are calling the Dow Jones industrial average up by over 1%, as US investors give the thumbs up to the prospect of a more dovish Fed chair ( although we still don't know who is going to actually replace Bernanke, of course ) Brenda Kelly (@BrendaKelly_IG) $Dow forecast to open 173 points higher.
(16) Astemizole (Hismanal; Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) and terfenadine (Seldane; Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals [Canada], Inc., Concord, Ontario, Canada) were compared for clinical efficacy in a double-blind randomized trial during the ragweed pollen season.
(17) In the US, traders expected the benchmark S&P 500 index to fall by 3% and the Dow Jones by 4% when trading starts at 2:30pm UK time.
(18) In the event the Dow went through a volatile opening, switching between rises and falls as investors tried to come to terms with events.
(19) Reports in Washington that the Republicans would agree to a six-week extension of the debt ceiling from next week's 17 October deadline led to a 323-point rise in the Dow Jones average.
(20) Last week, Dow Chemical, HP and Alcoa joined civil rights groups in urging Tennessee law-makers to abandon legislation similar to North Carolina’s affecting the state’s estimated 10,000 transgender students.