(1) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
(2) Rail engineers Includes: Aircraft engineers, ship and hovercraft officers, and other transport professionals Average pay before tax: £74,402 Pay range: £40,490 (20th percentile) to £98,507 (75th percentile).
(3) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
(4) Describing the harrowing job of recovering the bodies, RNLI rescue hovercraft commander Harry Roberts said that none of the victims had had any safety equipment, and some had stripped naked as they tried to swim to safety.
(5) From highly trained heart surgeons to hard-working vegetable pickers, immigrants will be told today that they will only be considered for UK citizenship if they can correctly answer "Britishness" questions on a range of topics, from the principles of medieval land ownership to the invention of the hovercraft.
(6) There is a sense that you have failed a little, having not come up with some more constructive diversion, such as making a hovercraft out of sticks, or, more fundamentally, not having created a child who will happily do puzzles in absorbed silence for prolonged periods of time.
(7) In October 1974 an over-hyped Liberal campaign, featuring a campaign hovercraft, ran aground and left the Liberals a little behind where they started.
(8) 2) He got through his audition on Parks And Recreation by improvising himself playing Grand Theft Auto (“Watch, I’m gonna drop a hovercraft on a hooker”).
(9) Firefighters have set up a command centre in the town and have a search-and-rescue hovercraft and lifeboat ready.
(10) Data were collected from 20,029 passengers on 114 voyages on 9 vessels: 6 ships, 2 hovercraft, and 1 jetfoil.
(11) Explore by fatbike (mountain bikes with over-sized tyres), try ice go-karting or board a hovercraft around the frozen islands.
(12) Two RAF helicopters and a hovercraft were scrambled.
(13) The landing craft, especially the mega hovercraft of the Americans, were monstrous, on a scale that would have awed D-day veterans.
(14) Such devices would best be avoided in hovercraft (air cushioned vehicle) pilots.
(15) During the night, rescuers using hovercraft began ferrying bodies back to shore from a sandbank in the northern part of the bay.
Transport
Definition:
(v. t.) To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
(v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
(v. t.) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
(v.) Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
(v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
(v.) Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
(v.) A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
(3) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(4) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(5) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
(6) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(7) These results suggest the involvement of SRC in opsin transport.
(8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(9) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(10) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(11) Chronic CHP administration elicited significant increase in both KD and Bmax of striatal mazindol-binding sites (labelling DA transporter complex), but no change in either D1- or D2-type DA receptors.
(12) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(13) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(14) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(15) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
(16) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
(17) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
(18) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
(19) Benzylpenicillin showed small inhibition against succinate transport and ticarcillin against sulfate transport.
(20) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.