(n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its recent decision to end Portsmouth’s role as a naval dockyard, the British government said recently that future warships - notably a new generation of frigates - would be built in Scotland only if Scotland remained part of Britain.
(2) On that occasion Devonport dockyard, in Plymouth, was the victor.
(3) In the period 1966-82 lungs from 333 workers who had been employed at a Royal Naval dockyard were referred to the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit where they were investigated for the severity of asbestosis, the presence of tumours, and an assessment of mineral fibre content and the type and amount of mineral present.
(4) Gordon Brown's new bag, made - unfathomably - by shipyard apprentices at a naval dockyard, is actually made from pine, like most good coffins.
(5) One civil defence paper estimated that up to 140,000 people could be injured and more than 20,000 killed if Liverpool’s dockyards were hit by lethal gases.
(6) In the early 1990s, the then defence secretary and Edinburgh Pentlands MP Malcolm Rifkind sacrificed thousands of jobs at the nearby Rosyth dockyard by giving the multi-billion pound Trident nuclear submarine refitting contract to Devonport dockyard in Plymouth, Saddler said.
(7) A few minutes' walk from Unicorn Gate is the historic dockyard , resting place of HMS Victory, the Mary Rose, HMS Warrior , the world's first iron-hulled, steam-powered warship.
(8) Filming has begun at locations including Chatham dockyard and Chertsey in Surrey.
(9) The conclusions are mainly in accord with those of the comprehensive morbidity study of all the civilian dockyard workers, and show that smoking played a large part in increasing prevalence rates of radiographic, clinical, and physiological abnormalities in this population.
(10) The former shadow work and pensions secretary will visit defence and energy industry workers across the UK, starting in Scotland at the Rosyth Naval Dockyard, where the final assembly of the Royal Navy’s two new £6bn flagship aircraft carriers is taking place.
(11) The incidence of chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes of 197 dockyard workers has been followed over a 10-yr period.
(12) One of the bar staff, Mary, said her husband, John, had been laid off from his job at the dockyard a few weeks ago.
(13) Portsmouth remains the home of the Royal Navy, with more than 10,000 jobs remaining in the dockyard.
(14) A bugler from inside the dockyard was practising the Last Post – probably only an unfortunate coincidence – as Jim Wheatcroft, 33, walked out.
(15) Lloyd's father, Ron, worked at the dockyard in the 60s.
(16) The money will expand the dockyard to ensure it is ready for the arrival of the Royal Navy’s biggest ever warships as well as the Type 45 destroyers which are based in Portsmouth.
(17) As part of a general morbidity study of all civilian employees in the four Royal Naval Dockyards, the clinical, radiological and physiological effects of exposure to asbestos in 1200 men aged 50-59 years were studied in detail.
(18) The problem is that the dockyard is in a densely populated area and, if there were an accident, thousands of people would be at risk.
(19) The core of the ferruginous bodies was chrysotile in 7 cases, and amosite fibers were frequently detected in the three cases from the Japanese naval dockyard.
(20) What Shakespeare didn't get from books, he could see in the London that surrounded him, particularly after James I ascended the throne in 1603: the cosmopolitan throng of merchants clustered around the Royal Exchange; the Jews, Spanish "blackamoors" and other religious refugees living nearby; the dockyards, echoing with voices from Europe and much further overseas; the ambassadors and tourists who came to pay court (and see drama) at Whitehall; the stock-market buzz about companies setting out to explore new worlds, east and west.
Shipyard
Definition:
(n.) A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(2) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
(3) High mortality was also observed in coal mining areas and areas with shipyards.
(4) The impulsiveness of the noise was greater both outside and inside the earmuffs in shipyard work than in forest work.
(5) The study consisted of 226 male construction welders who had never worked in shipyards.
(6) Hemoglobin, hematocrit, red cell indices, total and differential white blood cell counts, and platelet count were measured in shipyard painters and control subjects as part of a cross-sectional, observational study of the effects of ethylene glycol ethers.
(7) In any case, genuinely local capitalism had long since died away in a place like Scotland; and who, in any part of these islands, would invest in a risky enterprise like a shipyard when so much more profit was guaranteed by the simple act of owning a house?
(8) Last week Michael Fallon guaranteed 20 years of work for the BAE Systems shipyard on the Clyde when he announced that work on a new generation of warships would begin next summer.
(9) He had a history of asbestos exposure for 8 years doing piping work in a shipyard.
(10) Effects of record music on hearing were studied by measuring the hearing loss among 175 shipyard workers ranging from 20 to 29 years, who did not have any history of ear or nose diseases, familial hearing loss or ingestion of oto-toxic drugs.
(11) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
(12) If you were a welder in a shipyard you were somebody, but if you were working in a shop somewhere, well …" He recalls talking to a priest from Los Angeles, who was devoted to working with the gangs of the Californian city.
(13) Instead, Foot fell under the spell of the shipyard firebrands.
(14) A synergistic relation was found between shipyard employment and cigarette smoking.
(15) These shipyard workers had minimal to moderate asbestosis with much pleural disease and little functional impairment when compared to a smoking-specific reference population.
(16) The causes of rehabilitation of welders employed in the Maritime Shipyard in Szczecin have been analysed for the period 1979-1984.
(17) Talking in his home and recording studio in the shipyard town of Perama, one of the areas worst hit by unemployment, Mitakidis is critical of those who won't stand up against the corruption that has long bedevilled the country.
(18) Major analytic, epidemiologic studies were as follows: a) an international case-control study on breast cancer in relation to diet and exogenous estrogens; b) association between height and weight and various types of cancer; c) a follow-up study of about 9,000 shipyard workers exposed to asbestos; d) an epidemiologic survey on a 2- to 3-% sample population of Hawaii; and e) a follow-up study on leprosy patients in relation to their risks for cancer.
(19) He started in the Barrow shipyard in 1975, following after his father and grandfather, a common local pattern.
(20) Pleural mesothelioma incidence rates among white males increased over time and were highest in seaboard areas where shipyards have been located (Seattle, San Francisco-Oakland, Hawaii).