(v. t. & i.) One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm
(v. t. & i.) A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
(v. t. & i.) Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
(v. t. & i.) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.
(v. t. & i.) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A very loose taped-up tremolo arm on a Fender Jazzmaster, open chording and a few effects," is as far as he will be drawn.
(2) It has been demonstrated by the computer simulation that this model also explains the mechanism of the hysteresis in the binocular depth perception reported by Fender and Julesz (1967).
(3) In 1963, 'I bought a Fender re-verb amplifier and took LSD during the same week.'
(4) Best known to British audiences would be the late Doug Sahm, whose rocking Tex-Mex blend on hits such as Mendocino and She's About a Mover won him an international following and helped shine the spotlight on local Tejano heroes Freddy Fender and Flaco Jiménez.
(5) "These children often live in the moment," says Fender.
(6) Some pre-match emails: "I have a feeling that little doggy's about to chew on some fenders, Mr. G," writes Byron Whitley from New York.
(7) It acknowledged “a handful of minor fender-benders, light damage, no injuries, so far caused by human error and inattention”.
(8) Griff Fender, best known as a vocalist for the 70s band The Darts, and dancer Laura Street have worked with Oily Cart for many years.
(9) The priority so far is not avoiding fender-benders, but teaching them to avoid causing a serious accident that could set back acceptance of the technology for years, said Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer of the technology with Carnegie Mellon University.
(10) "If we want it to sound like a Gibson we use mahogany and if we want a [Fender] Strat or Telecaster sound we use maple."
(11) "There was one particular child I really thought I wasn't getting through to at all," Fender says.
(12) I have replicated the historic Fender and Julesz stereo hysteresis study [J. opt.
(13) Brendan Joyce, the chief executive of Norfolk Wildlife Trust , does not just admire ash because its wood made his beloved Fender Stratocaster guitar.
(14) The wooden bookrest and three-piece fender of wrought iron were designed by Lawrence.
(15) There is talk of how self-driving cars could reduce accidents on the road, but us just driving less could do that too (and the way that self-driving cars can be hacked or just have their software go south should concern us; when a computer goes haywire, it really goes); and the fender benders to date of Google’s self-driving cars suggest that machines may never quite comprehend human nature.
(16) But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out 'fender bender ... totally stuck in left lane!'
(17) Heavy snow in the Philadelphia area led to a number of accidents, including a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that spawned fender-benders involving 50 cars, stranding some motorists for up to seven hours.
Jetty
Definition:
(a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
(n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
(n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
(v. i.) To jut out; to project.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
(2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
(3) Can a rail line – which according to longstanding projections needs to be a 60m-tonnes-a-year operation to be viable – or a jetty be half built?
(4) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(5) Commander Gavin Edward, coordinating the ship’s arrival on the jetty at Taranto, southern Italy, said: “The speed with which the Italian Red Cross, police and government officials have received these survivors has been really impressive and as a result we should be able to set sail later this afternoon.” Inside the towering grey sides of the amphibious warship, the 450 members of the ship’s company were preparing to return to its search and rescue mission.
(6) The ship will dock at a refurbished oil jetty; chiefly, says Safe Haven, because using a pre-existing site made things much cheaper.
(7) "We can head over there and then skin down that long bank south of it and around past the jetties at the mouth and anchor in a little hook inside the rocks where it'll be calm.
(8) 2 Continue on the road with the launch jetties and lake on your right until the tarmac road runs out.
(9) But this small beast, tethered to a jetty at Faslane naval base, is a deadly one: it is one quarter of Trident , Britain's nuclear deterrent.
(10) The place where he asked me to marry him, by the water as the sun set, was the same jetty where we had sat under the full moon and begun our relationship.
(11) For it to become habitable again, the islanders will need a new jetty, houses, a water purification scheme and some form of employment, either fishing or a resumption of the coconut trade.
(12) The money will fund infrastructure construction – including the building of sea walls and jetties – at Faslane over the next 10 years, with most of the work expected to start in 2017.
(13) It was empty on Tuesday afternoon save for a lone fisherman at a jetty that was ringed by parked law enforcement vehicles.
(14) Borrow canoes, a dinghy or stand-up paddleboards from the floating jetty, or hang out in the sauna or the gardens.
(15) By the jetty, friendly Café Janoca (meals from €15) will overfeed you with pleasure.
(16) In the case of Abbot Point, dredging will be used to expand what is essentially a simple jetty jutting out into the sea into one of the world’s largest coal ports.
(17) Culatra feels like the start of a love affair right from the moment we nudge alongside its long slender jetty.
(18) Photograph: Alamy Felix sits on the jetty, legs swaying aimlessly a few feet above the water.
(19) One of the best places to moor is the jetty of this taverna in the bay of San Stefano.
(20) Ultimately, the US response to swarming will be to use American dominance in the air and multitudes of precision-guided missiles to escalate rapidly and dramatically, wiping out every Iranian missile site, radar, military harbour and jetty on the coast.