(n.) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
(v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is a real risk that Google, entirely unintentionally, could limit innovation simply because of its dominance," according to Peter Luff, the Conservative chairman of the Business and Enterprise Committee.
(2) Last March Peter Luff , the minister for defence equipment – the position itself is telling – said in a speech in London: "The individual UK armed forces are in themselves a brand … If they are using a particular piece of kit, then that's the kind of endorsement a lot of companies are very keen indeed to have."
(3) "We have 25 independent analysts following the company, and if you look at their forecasts for 2015, there isn't a single one who is forecasting that profit margins will double or anything like that," said Centrica's financial director, Nick Luff.
(4) Politicians from across the parties are also recognised for long service in Westminster, including Kevin Barron, Labour chairman of the standards committee, Peter Luff, a former Tory defence minister, and Richard Ottaway, Conservative chairman of the foreign affairs committee, who are all knighted.
(5) In the months before he switched designation of his second home from Worcester to London, Luff paid for more than £5,000 decorating and repairs.
(6) Sir Peter Luff, the Tory MP for Mid-Worcestershire who is retiring next year, said the main parties needed to communicate better.
(7) Laidlaw wants to bail out as chief executive, and his finance boss, Nick Luff, has already announced his own plans to leave.
(8) On the basis of results from their own investigations, the authors compare the values yielded by the enzymatic method with those obtained by means of the Luff-Schoorl procedure.
(9) Over the past year the company has lost the finance director Nick Luff, British Gas boss Phil Bentley and chairman Sir Roger Carr.
(10) The departure of Chris Weston after just over a year in the job follows the resignation of the finance director, Nick Luff, who is set to be followed by the chief executive, Sam Laidlaw, though his exit has not been confirmed officially.
(11) Yesterday Peter Luff, chairman of the cross-party business and enterprise committee of MPs, told the BBC's Today programme that if the deal had gone ahead it would have meant "a huge concentration of electricity generation in the hands of one supplier, over a quarter of the market in one supplier".
(12) Peter Luff, the Conservative MP for Worcestershire Mid, has insisted Ipsa's rules forced him to move out of his home and rent.
(13) Luff noted that Centrica had put three gas-fired power stations up for sale two months ago and scrapped plans for an offshore windfarm, the Celtic Array off Anglesey.
(14) Nick Luff, Centrica's finance director, said the improvement in the bottom line had been driven by demand returning to "normal levels" among the group's 15.8 million British Gas customers.
(15) Examination of the register of members' interests shows that those who are renting a London home whilst claiming rental income include Liam Fox, the former defence secretary and the former ministers Peter Luff and Nick Harvey.
(16) 1.34pm GMT Peter Luff , the Conservative former defence minister, asks what the purpose of the three new boats will be.
(17) Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, David Gauke, a Treasury minister, and Peter Luff, a junior defence minister, have all already visited Scotland this autumn.
(18) The source said the headhunters looking for Luff's replacement had been asked to look for a new man for the top job at the same time.
(19) Luff and Weston earned £1.2m apiece last year – down from over £3m, which prompted a Financial Times headline warning: "Slimmer pay packets may deter replacements."
(20) Luff said while the rebuff for EDF had few short-term implications: "The government does have to get on with creating the climate in which these new nuclear power stations are built."
Tuff
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tufa.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Bandelier national monument , tucked deep inside Frijoles Canyon, ancient Puebloan people used hand tools to shape natural caves in the tuff into shelters known as cavates.
(2) Isotopic determinations on a tuff below the fossiliferous horizon gives dates of 4.96 my and 5.25 my.
(3) While talking an assailant into surrendering may not always be an option, the fact that Tuff successfully did so is a testament to the fact that violence does not always have to be the first answer and that tragic situations can be resolved without the use of force.
(4) Antoinette Tuff, a school clerk at the Ronald E McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, saw 20-year-old Brandon Michael Hill enter the school with an assault rifle and several other weapons.
(5) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian We had a really nice house and fields of tomatoes [in Mexico] but it was so unsafe Luis Galvan Galvan’s Daca permission expires next year.
(6) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
(7) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
(8) The hominid tracks in Tuff 7 at Site G in the Garusi River Valley demonstrate bipedality at a mid-Pliocene datum.
(9) Bimesaraic arteriography may show typical images where extravasation of contrast medium is associated with vascular tuft or "tuff".
(10) Over time, this ash layer solidified into a soft, easily eroded, whitish rock called tuff.
(11) Around 30m years ago, rhinos, camels, giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats roamed a lush grassland before being buried by a series of volcanic eruptions, which preserved their bones in colourful layers of tuff.
(12) Instead of resorting to violence, the school implemented its evacuation procedures and Tuff engaged Hill in a conversation .
(13) Antoinette Tuff showed us it can be done another way, and we need to follow her lead.
(14) Ultrastructurally 4 basic types of inclusion bodies in Schwann cells could be demonstrated (pleo-morphic "zebra body"-like inclusions, double-lamellated inclusions, "tuff-stone"-like inclusions, granular osmiophilic inclusions).
(15) Epidemiological and environmental surveys in the Cappadocian region of Turkey have linked the high incidence of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma in the occupants of some villages with the zeolite fibres released from the locally occurring volcanic tuff.
(16) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian In the midst of a prolonged drought, vegetable and fruit growers are angry that rivers are allowed to carry more of their water out to sea to help preserve an endangered fish, the delta smelt, while water for irrigation is in effect rationed.
(17) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian If Galvan is afraid of being forced out of the country, Jenny Beard is fearful of staying.
(18) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Luis Galvan gets why a lot of people in Porterville voted for Trump even if he thinks they are mistaken.
(19) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Beard complained and the co-worker was reprimanded.
(20) Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian Maddox and Galvan live in Porterville, a small, conservative city nestled under the Sierra Nevada mountains, far from the prosperity and glamour of California’s coast.