(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.
Retort
Definition:
(n.) To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
(n.) To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
(n.) To return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.
(v. i.) To return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.
(v. t.) The return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.
(v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
Example Sentences:
(1) After I pointed this out, even with all the racist retorts he could muster, being told “he’s got you there mate” by his friends was the knockout that saved the night.
(2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
(3) By measuring the solubility of Ni5As2 particles in a variety of aqueous solutions, we have determined that particulate Ni5As2 that might be produced during oil-shale retorting could be mobilized to the environment and made available to the cells of living organisms, including humans.
(4) Thus, it is possible that Ni5As2 could be solubilized and mobilized to the environment by the flooding of abandoned in situ retorts with ground water or by the disposal of oil-shale product water by spraying it on spent shale beds.
(5) The score should have been tied at 2-2 and the natural German retort that one of Geoff Hurst's goals in the 1966 World Cup was imaginary hardly makes the blunder of officials more palatable in Bloemfontein.
(6) In reply, Cameron retorts that the changes are infused with the moral purpose of bringing "new hope and responsibility" to benefits claimants.
(7) However, this evidence may have appeared stronger to the City of London police, HMRC and the Crown Prosecution Service when they first brought the charges than it did during the case, coming after revelations of phone-hacking and News Corporation's closure of the News of the World, which allowed Redknapp to continually express scorn and retort that he "did not have to tell the truth" to "that newspaper".
(8) "Would all these girls," he asks, with a sorrow that defies any glib, one-should-be-so-lucky retort, "be fucking me if they weren't getting paid?"
(9) Clinton shows strength over Trump in one of history's most significant debates Read more “It’s all words, it’s all soundbites,” he retorted after a particularly one-sided exchange, adding that Clinton was a “typical politician: all talk, no action”.
(10) The education secretary appeared to suggest that Graham was effectively helping opponents of the taxpayer-funded schools, which are independent of local authorities, to intimidate applicants – prompting Graham to retort that the arguments of Gove's department in resisting public disclosure "clearly failed to convince".
(11) Written and directed by Gillian Robespierre , Obvious Child tells the story of Donna, a standup comedian in Brooklyn whose chaotic life is a source of bemusement to her parents, who are unable to believe that their twentysomething daughter doesn’t even know how to do her taxes (“Nobody knows how to do their taxes!” Donna retorts, not wholly incorrectly.)
(12) The infant formulas were sterilized either by ultra-high temperature (UHT) treatment or by a conventional retort process to give products with low and high levels of MRPs and LAL, respectively.
(13) Similarly, Laura Bates's recent article on victim blaming should act as sufficient retort to anyone who thinks police chief KP Raghuvanshi's advice that women should carry chilli powder to prevent rape is symptomatic of a specifically Indian brand of misogyny.
(14) Obama, seemingly frustrated with Romney's elusiveness, retorted that it had been his opponent's strategy for 18 months.
(15) "That's an insult, Mr Black, that's an insult," Redknapp retorted.
(16) The bride retorts: “I’m the one who paid the quoted price.
(17) Carly Fiorina expertly defuses Trump on 'beautiful face' retort and foreign policy Read more The New York real estate mogul went out off his way to bash Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential rival with whom he sparred in Wednesday’s debate.
(18) Mailer punched Vidal at a party, prompting Vidal to retort: "Words fail Norman again."
(19) "Because the lawyer said it's legal," Bush retorted.
(20) The testicles were retorted at various intervals up to 24 hours.