(n.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.
(n.) The place or office of direction or administration.
(n.) One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.
(n.) A helve.
(v. t.) To steer; to guide; to direct.
(n.) A helmet.
(n.) A heavy cloud lying on the brow of a mountain.
(v. t.) To cover or furnish with a helm or helmet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(2) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
(3) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(4) Hours later, Nixon called in his CIA chief, Richard Helms, and, according to Helms's handwritten notes, ordered the CIA to prevent Allende's inauguration.
(5) Furthermore, Representative Hogan and Senator Helms have entered into both houses a constitutional amendment designed to protect the fetus "from the moment of conception."
(6) Dominic Chappell’s Retail Acquisitions consortium, which was at the helm when BHS called in the administrators, received payments of at least £17m from the retailer in just 13 months, according to evidence seen by MPs.
(7) With him at the helm, Tesco not only risks missing out on female talent, it will also alienate customers.
(8) However, Dieter Helm believes these challenges can be overcome with political will.
(9) Team Cameron will play the ball, not the man, and let voters decide for themselves | Toby Helm Read more Those who preached so often to their party about the necessity of winning general elections proved to be useless at winning a Labour one.
(10) Now it appears to have been reactivated with Greengrass at the helm, just as the director's latest film, Captain Phillips , is due to premiere at the Toronto film festival.
(11) António Horta-Osório, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, has completed a "clean sweep" of the executive team he inherited when he took the helm in March.
(12) But there are plenty of pieces of anti-Cuban legislation and trade embargoes still in force, including the sweeping and draconian 1996 Helms-Burton act , which penalises foreign companies trading with Cuba.
(13) The change follows an approach by Sky News to Buckingham Palace last year and is something of a coup for the broadcaster, which will take the helm over a two-year period which will see two royal weddings, the diamond jubilee and the London Olympic Games.
(14) The Italian, who will hand Darren Bent and Jack Wilshere their first competitive starts at the Millennium Stadium, was quick to insist he remains the right man to coach the national team after a little over three years and 34 matches at the helm.
(15) The call to Andrew Bailey – who took the helm of the FCA in July after a long career at the Bank of England – is made in a report published on Tuesday which says there should be an overhaul of the way financial regulators are run.
(16) My miscommunication on a number of points has caused upset and offence, and for this I am sorry.” Roberts, who is from Lancashire, has been at Saatchi & Saatchi’s helm for 20 years and is also the company’s head coach, a mentoring role.
(17) (1986) observed no such effects using cell kinetic methods with 3H-thymidine instead of the stathmokinetic method applied by Tutton and Helme.
(18) Lille were a club whose glory days of the 1940s and 1950s seemed a distant memory but Puel transformed them into genuine title contenders in his six years at the helm, finishing as runners-up in 2004-05.
(19) As a former colleague, Sarah Helm, has recalled : “Johnson’s half-truths created a new reality … correspondents witnessed Johnson shaping the narrative that morphed into our present-day populist Euroscepticism.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Trump supporter at a campaign rally in Maryland in April.
(20) Although football's political structures showed faith in the man at the helm, there are questions whether the storm has yet abated.
Whelm
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.
(v. t.) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five asplenic persons with no other detectable underlying disease had over-whelming pneumococcemia.
(2) A series of analyses conducted within two studies indicated: (1) a relationship between elevated daily stress, concern over being over-whelmed by inner feelings, and a loss of discrimination regarding sources of inner feelings, (2) a tendency to narrow attentional focus when overloaded with excessive internal stimulation, and (3) diminished sensitivity to hunger sensations for women generally at-risk for anorexia nervosa given a narrowed attentional focus.
(3) Distancing herself from such attitudes, Caroline Hiscox describes the results of her staff survey which demonstrates an over-whelming endorsement of the need for support groups to help health care workers cope with the stressors they encounter in their professional and domestic situations.
(4) Three distinct groups-problem drinkers (many of whom do not have blatant alcoholism), teenagers, and heavy social drinkers-make up the over-whelming majority of persons in alcohol related crashes, and countermeasures specific to each group must be applied and evaluated.
(5) The potent mu-deteminant located within the amino end of dermenkephalin is over-whelmed by the powerful delta-directing ability of the carboxy end.
(6) Thus, splenectomy per se is associated with an increased risk of over-whelming pneumococcemia.
(7) As a result, the female tortoises remarkably over whelm the male ones in number, which leads to a drop in the natural rate of breeding.
(8) A case of acute myelogenous leukemia is reported in a child who presented with acute ileotyphlitis and died of an over-whelming Clostridium septicum sepsis before the chemotherapy was administered.
(9) Autologous reimplantation of splenic tissue does not offer complete protection against over-whelming infection.
(10) In acute necrotizing gastritis all four major gastric vessels are patent, but gastric gangrene occurs secondary to an over-whelming necrobiotic infection.