What's the difference between harbour and wharf?

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.

Wharf


Definition:

  • (n.) A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
  • (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
  • (v. t.) To guard or secure by a firm wall of timber or stone constructed like a wharf; to furnish with a wharf or wharfs.
  • (v. t.) To place upon a wharf; to bring to a wharf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
  • (2) It is expanding for the first time since the 2008 banking crisis with plans for 30 buildings, including 3,100 homes, at Wood Wharf at its eastern edge.
  • (3) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
  • (4) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
  • (5) Richard Rogers had just set up his office at Thames Wharf, in Hammersmith, and he was keen for the development to be not just offices but a community: this meant having somewhere for everyone to eat.
  • (6) Overseas investment funds Facebook Twitter Pinterest JP Morgan’s offices in Canary Wharf, London.
  • (7) As well as the shard investment, the Qataris last October came to the rescue of debt-laden Songbird, which owns Canary Wharf, and became its largest shareholder.
  • (8) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
  • (9) Only a fortnight ago, it reportedly bought HSBC’s 44-storey global headquarters in Canary Wharf for just over £1.1bn.
  • (10) What’s the EU ever done for us?” Zak Kelly, 21, asks me this standing next to a brand new complex of buildings and facilities that wouldn’t look out of place in Canary Wharf.
  • (11) It’s not Canary Wharf, though, it’s Ebbw Vale, a former steel town of 18,000 people in the heart of the Welsh valleys, where 62% of the population – the highest proportion in Wales – voted Leave.
  • (12) The Qataris have been rebuffed in their attempt to buy Canary Wharf and add yet another London landmark to a string of trophy assets in the capital.
  • (13) In London, for instance, the insincere granite cladding of Canary Wharf owes much to his example.
  • (14) The company had an address in Canary Wharf and an impressive website, and was being promoted by enthusiastic brokers who told of how the company was expanding at a rapid rate.
  • (15) A more relevant figure might be that the old City and Canary Wharf each has around 45,000 fully fledged bankers.
  • (16) HS2AA director Hilary Wharf said: "Since the start of this project there has been a sorry story of the government trying to avoid important environmental protection requirements which are enshrined in law.
  • (17) Yet Canary Wharf is this big, swell, ugly, garish, comforting exception, a place so consummately about banking that the escalator from the tube runs straight into a bank, the bank runs straight into the Waitrose and I have never found out how you get to the street (is there a street?).
  • (18) Trinity Mirror chief executive Sly Bailey, gazing across London from her Canary Wharf eyrie as she contemplates how to capitalise on the Burrell coup and permanently reverse the downward fortunes of the Daily Mirror and its Sunday stablemates, will not be cheered by the reminder that while blondes may have more fun, moguls have more muscle.
  • (19) The Gherkin office tower in the City was bought by Brazilian billionaire banker Joseph Safra for more than £700m last month, while the Qatari Investment Authority acquired HSBC tower in Canary Wharf for more than £1.1bn.
  • (20) Beyond it will rise a visual wall of glass skyscrapers along the river's south bank, two at Blackfriars, another behind Tate Modern, a higher King's Reach tower at London Bridge and at Bermondsey the 1,000ft "glass shard", taller even than the highest structure at Canary Wharf.