What's the difference between galley and oar?

Galley


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
  • (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century.
  • (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars.
  • (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  • (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  • (n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
  • (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
  • (n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
  • (n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Grant finished the manuscript in July 1885, it was rushed into galley proof.
  • (2) Don't just rely on Twitter or Facebook Ben Galley became a self-published author at 22 and is currently making a modest living selling his fantasy ebooks and offering "Shelf Help" , a consultancy for other aspiring authors (sessions via Skype, phone or face to face from £50 to £199).
  • (3) It gets even skinnier at the back, where the galley kitchen is a mere 62 inches, or 5ft 2 across, but despite its slender proportions, the 466sq ft property in Denmark Hill was put on the market for £450,000.
  • (4) Galley, who stood as a Tory candidate for Sunderland council in 2004, has not been charged, but he has been suspended from his Home Office job while the investigation carries on.
  • (5) The major art galley in central San Francisco that has shown Ferlinghetti's work for two decades is closing because it can't afford the new rent.
  • (6) Galley, who is now in hiding from journalists, was arrested on November 19.
  • (7) Profile: Christopher Galley Christopher Galley, 26, the junior Home Office civil servant at the centre of the Damian Green affair, stood as a Conservative council candidate in 2004 and unsuccessfully applied for a job with the party's immigration spokesman, it emerged.
  • (8) Spread may have been facilitated by the limited availability of toilet facilities for the galley crew.
  • (9) A junior Home Office official, Christopher Galley, was arrested on November 18 in relation to the same alleged offences as Green, and he was released on bail.
  • (10) Open daily 11.30am-10pm The Cuban Sandwich Factory Facebook Twitter Pinterest This Cuban-owned joint is alive with Latin music and rapid-fire Spanish instructions issuing from its small galley kitchen, and its food (mainly pressed, toasted Cuban sandwiches) is equally vibrant.
  • (11) Photograph: PR The forward galley’s catering facilities have wine glasses for an in-flight tipple while the bathroom includes a shower and a vacuum lavatory.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Gulfstream jet’s galley.
  • (13) The findings so far from Galley's ongoing research into gender biases in social work are far from simple.
  • (14) There's a welcome revival happening on the indie scene with literary platforms such as Brixton Bookjam , Black Book Swap and Words of Colour , as well as publishing houses And Other Stories, Galley Beggar Press, Jacaranda Books, and Unbound, whose author Paul Kingsnorth receives a Booker nod for The Wake .
  • (15) The premier, said Khodorkovsky, was helmsman of a galley which "sails right over people's destinies" and "over which, more and more, the citizens of Russia seem to see a black pirate flag flying".
  • (16) I always make sure I can see the Twitter screen on my laptop when I am writing,” self-publishing author Ben Galley declares, just one of an army of unpaid e-authors who rise at dawn to promote themselves on social media before their paid job.
  • (17) He said yesterday: "The two men I shared a cabin with already knew, the whole galley knew.
  • (18) Unlike many authors, Galley stays online even when he is writing.
  • (19) David Galley and Margarete Parrish will be discussing some of the implications for academics and social work practitioners during their presentation at the Joint Social Work and Social Education conference .
  • (20) From 17 or 18, to 20 I was also the cook on the boat, making meals on the stove in a little galley – lasagnes, roasts and spaghetti bolognese.

Oar


Definition:

  • (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
  • (n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
  • (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
  • (v. t. & i.) To row.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine which dimensions of the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) would best predict the status of the medically disabled elderly, veteran inpatients, outpatients, and nonpatient volunteers were administered the multidimensional functional assessment portion of the OARS.
  • (2) Although the vast majority (83.2%) of subjects were fully independent on the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale, a broader scope of functional difficulty was reported on the Spector-Katz, five-item OARS, and Rosow-Breslau scales.
  • (3) In the simpler method, used for rotation techniques, the off-axis ratio (OAR) is calculated from the equation.
  • (4) 5.41pm BST 38 min: Now it's Oar terrorising the Netherlands!
  • (5) Recent refinements in the OARS methodology include new information about validity and reliability, computerized summary ratings for the five dimensions of functional status, and eleven scales that measure specific aspects of functioning within the five dimensions.
  • (6) From a midfield freekick, Oar drops the ball on the penalty spot and the only player there to welcome it is Spiranovic!
  • (7) The differences at the finish were a result of the lifting of the oar from the water not exhibited in ergometer rowing.
  • (8) 6.20pm BST 62 min: Janmaart takes Oar's legs from him but he retrieves them to curl in a freekick towards the gold shirts lining up along the edge of the Dutch penalty area.
  • (9) Oar exploded into space and, really, should have taken the opportunity to shoot.
  • (10) Kinetics for the base-catalyzed hydrolysis of compounds 9--13 were investigated by UV and NMR methods and are considered in connection with service of these compounds as pro(phosphorodiamidic acid mustards) [MP(O)(NHR)OAr leads to MP(O)(NHR)OH] via an E1cB mechanism involving the intermediacy of a mustard-bearing metaphosphorodiimide [MP(O)=NR].
  • (11) Kobach, who took a doctorate in politics from Brasenose college, Oxford, has a rowing oar from his 1991 Isis crew on the wall of his state office, along with the heads of two deer that he shot, he says, with a bow.
  • (12) Athletes in Rio test events have tried many tricks and treatments to avoid falling ill, including bleaching rowing oars, hosing off their bodies the second they finish competing, and preemptively taking antibiotics which have no effect on viruses.
  • (13) Inpatients showed significantly more impaired ratings on all five of the OARS subscales than the outpatients and nonpatients, while outpatients were more impaired than nonpatients on two of the subscales (mental health and activities of daily living).
  • (14) An approximate calculation of the ratio of the power put into the boat's motion to the power lost as water movement in the oar "puddle" suggests that increasing the blade area of the oar will result in improved efficiency.
  • (15) Measures included assessments of social network using components of the OARS, family satisfaction using the APGAR, family cohesion and adaptability using the FACES II, alcohol abuse using the CAGE, and indicators of health-protective behaviors.
  • (16) The oar-like crossbridge cycle, developed up to the mid-1970's, was shown to be inconsistent with more recent biochemical results.
  • (17) Davidson and Oar combine wonderfully on the left with a one-two and Oar almost gets clear in the Dutch box, which is an unfortunate combination of words, but what can you do?
  • (18) Axopods of the planktonic protozoan, Sticholonche, are used as oars to propel the organism through seawater.
  • (19) A measurement model of mental health for the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) questionnaire is described.
  • (20) 5.11pm BST 7 min: Leckie, then Oar, give Cillessen something to think about.

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