(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.
Gesture
Definition:
(n.) Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
(n.) A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion.
(v. t.) To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate.
(v. i.) To make gestures; to gesticulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(2) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
(4) Finally, it is suggested that the gestural approach clarifies our understanding of phonological development, by positing that prelinguistic units of action are harnessed into (gestural) phonological structures through differentiation and coordination.
(5) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(6) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
(7) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(8) Each vocal gesture creates each different vocal style.
(9) "In the same way as the camera tells a different story to reality, it's the same on stage; the gestures that might seem incredibly overblown in the moment are played out differently.
(10) There is no significant support for this unhelpful gesture made by ex-ministers."
(11) President Juan Manuel Santos said he valued the gesture from the Farc, but warned it was not enough.
(12) The study examined 40 adolescent parasuicides' reports of whether they expected to be rescued following parasuicide gestures.
(13) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(14) At the time, he described his scientific quest by gesturing to the ocean: "We're just trying to figure out who fucking lives out there."
(15) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(16) Significant right-hand asymmetry was found for gestures which depict or represent (motor primary movements,p less than .01) but not for nonrepresentational speech primacy movements.
(17) A worker gestures at one of the entrances of the Lisbon harbour during a strike by Portuguese harbour workers, in Lisbon September 17, 2012.
(18) It’s a present from Putin,” joked another soldier, gesturing in the direction of the shelling.
(19) Mitchell is also pressuring Arab countries for gestures in response to an Israeli settlement freeze such as trade delegations or overflight rights.
(20) This gesture goes some way to acknowledging the hypocrisy of an organisation which has sacked over 21,000 staff, while still attempting to pay bumper bonuses to the bosses.