What's the difference between harbour and seaport?

Harbour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
  • (2) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (3) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
  • (4) BUSH ON IRAQ TONIGHT: Mr President, if I can move on to the question of Iraq, when we last spoke before the Iraq war, I asked you about Saddam Hussein and you said this, and I quote: "He harbours and develops weapons of mass destruction, make no mistake about it."
  • (5) Faecal samples of the Romanov ewes more often harboured Nematodirus eggs while the larvae recovered from cultures of these samples contained a higher percentage of Teladorsagia.
  • (6) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
  • (7) Previous use of metronidazole was reported in only 16 patients, 11 of whom (68.8%) harboured resistant Helicobacter pylori strains.
  • (8) The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+).
  • (9) c. Even within the overall normal range of duct diameter (less than 12 mm) the wider the duct, the greater is the chance of it harbouring a stone.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Clovelly.
  • (11) G. vaginalis was found in high concentrations in 73% of those harbouring this bacterium.
  • (12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
  • (13) The state premier, Mike Baird , also requested the French flag fly over the harbour bridge.
  • (14) A purified, functionally active DNA binding protein and a pool of random double-stranded oligonucleotides harbouring PCR primer sites at each end are included the TDA cycle which consists of four separate steps: a DNA protein incubation step, a protein DNA complex separation step, a DNA elution step and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification step.
  • (15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
  • (16) Twelve differently-sized plasmids from 1.8 to 63 kbp were identified in those strains harbouring extrachromosomal DNA.
  • (17) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
  • (18) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
  • (19) This scientific advice will also form the basis of a new report card that will ensure the community is informed of the health of the harbour in an open and transparent way.
  • (20) At both sampling dates, the most heavily infected 25% of the community harboured over 90% of the total pinworms recovered.

Seaport


Definition:

  • (n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plans for an airport, a seaport and numerous joint Israeli-Palestinian projects in Gaza were in full swing when Hamas took over in 2006 and violently removed the Palestinian Authority, declaring it would not recognise Israel and proceeding to wage war on its civilians.
  • (2) The positive rodents were found in Lushoto, Mbulu, Chunya and Monduli districts, as well as at Tanga seaport.
  • (3) Our position has always been that we’re not in favour of getting this done at the seaport.
  • (4) • In the Pacific Northwest, young people, Native American tribes, and others are mobilizing to stop the rail transport of huge quantities of Wyoming Powder River Basin coal to Northwest seaports for export to Asia.
  • (5) It is not just for an airport, but a new tidal barrier to protect London from flooding, a high-speed orbital railway that would roughly follow the path of the M25, and railway connections to seaports and northern cities.
  • (6) Its responsibility is to enforce criminal law at airports and seaports, ensuring that those facilities are not used for illicit activity.
  • (7) The demand for a seaport was reportedly agreed in principle, but detailed discussions have been deferred for at least a month.
  • (8) Field and commensal rodents and shrews were live-trapped from selected areas in each of the six zones of the Republic, namely North-eastern, Eastern, Central-western, South-western, Southern and Seaports.
  • (9) He turned Singapore from a small seaport into a bustling metropolis, rife with skyscrapers and its own casino.
  • (10) Now Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who stood alongside Beckham and MLS commissioner Don Gerber in February as the retired star made his long expected formal announcement that he was exercising his right to buy a start-up MLS franchise , has joined those keen to steer him away from the previously preferred seaport site.
  • (11) Security will be one of the biggest challenges, not least in Balochistan, home of the Gwadar seaport and a decade-old separatist insurgency.
  • (12) Immigration and border control staff at Australia’s air and seaports have overwhelmingly voted down the government’s latest pay offer and will continue to take industrial action.
  • (13) The construction of the new airport, together with extensive reclamation of the harbour and expansion of seaport facilities, will create changes in the tidal flow and the ecological system.
  • (14) In the RSA most cases of psittacosis have resulted from contact with budgerigars and cockatiels, but outbreaks have been associated with imported batches of birds including South American parrots and Australian finches, emphasizing the need for vigilance at seaports.
  • (15) When it was an important seaport, Trieste was an affluent city, but today most citizens view its decline as irreversible and consequently try to enjoy the present.
  • (16) The International Association of Airport and Seaport Police is an international organization comprised of law enforcement agencies.
  • (17) Both venereal disease and cervical cancer mortality are more common in urban areas and around seaports than in the country as a whole.
  • (18) We felt that planned destruction of power plants, and interference with rail and telephone communications, would tend to scare away capital from the country, make it more difficult for goods from the industrial areas to reach the seaports on schedule, and would in the long run be a heavy drain on the economic life of the country, thus compelling the voters of the country to reconsider their position.
  • (19) Husni Mansoor arrived in Aden, a seaport city in Yemen, in March.
  • (20) Since vector capability for malaria does exist on Guam, quarantine procedures at the air and seaports combined with public health disease surveillance and an integrated anopheline control program are recommended for the island.

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