(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.
Yacht
Definition:
(n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
(v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.
Example Sentences:
(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
(3) However, no deal has been forthcoming and the billionaire tycoon was photographed on his new yacht throughout the summer.
(4) We are not looking to own boats and yachts and stuff like that.
(5) The League ruled that because the tax offence involving the yacht Nelie had been confirmed by the Italian judge to have been a dishonest act, Cellino failed its owners and directors test.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
(8) The model, the beach, the yacht, what more is there to say?
(9) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
(10) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
(11) "Two women were hooded, they had their eyes taped," she said, describing how the yacht was quickly overwhelmed.
(12) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
(13) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(14) The plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval base commander in Portsmouth.
(15) But the primary cause, particularly near the yachting courses, is the waste that flows into the bay from surrounding communities, many of which emerged during periods of unregulated urban growth.
(16) You have this tension between the privacy that yachts and the sea afford against this desire to see and be seen,” she says.
(17) Downing Street has moved swiftly to torpedo a proposal from the education secretary, Michael Gove , that the public should donate a £60m royal yacht to the Queen as part of this year's diamond jubilee celebrations.
(18) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
(19) Not a single ship in the Unites States is equipped to handle wind turbines: Forget about whales and yacht routes.
(20) Officially, Deng is entitled to whatever she agreed to in the prenuptial agreement signed in 1999 when they married on a luxury yacht to the sounds of Charlotte Church's angelic voice.