What's the difference between nave and navel?

Nave


Definition:

  • (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
  • (n.) The navel.
  • (n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
  • (2) The list includes Refaii Hamo, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Detroit in December, and Saudi-American army veteran Naveed Shah, reflections of the president’s effort to resettle 10,000 refugees and his opposition to anti-Muslim sentiment .
  • (3) The chapel, where in the last series Sister Bernadette struggled to reconcile her vocation with her love for widowed GP Dr Turner, is being turned into a spectacular four-bedroom, four-bathroom flat, using the central nave and west cloister corridor lit by a glass atrium.
  • (4) Brother Naveed posts YouTube video showing boxes of special food family bought online for Ashya and a power charger for his feeding unit and strenuously denies any allegations of neglect.
  • (5) Miliband, who employed Khan as shadow justice secretary when he was the party’s leader, was on the front row of the nave.
  • (6) Naveed wrote on Facebook to accompany the video: “Pictures and words can only go so far.
  • (7) She stared while moonlight got past the clouds to the holed and broken walls, onto a low newer church inside the nave of the old.
  • (8) Naveed, 32, who works in IT in Manchester, recalls one girl who had one fake profile she used to attract men initially, before showing them her real profile.
  • (9) The temple originally had a sunken nave flanked by seven symbolic pairs of pillars leading to the altar, a ritual well and raised seating on either side.
  • (10) said Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, chairman of the Pakistan Minorities Alliance.
  • (11) When the Dalai Lama came to collect his cheque at a ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral, eight Buddhist monks sat chanting in front of the high altar as the nave filled up.
  • (12) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
  • (13) A woman at the back of the nave shouted something inaudible but clearly theological and angry.
  • (14) The eldest, Naveed, 23, is a pharmacist in the local area whose wife is due to give birth imminently to the family's first grandchild.
  • (15) The nave of the minster was filled, but the side aisles were lined with empty chairs.
  • (16) But in the press gallery, where we could not see the subtitles projected on screens around the nave, it was only the giggles that were clearly audible.
  • (17) In an earlier version we incorrectly attributed comments by Marie-Cécile Naves to another analyst, Virginie Martin.
  • (18) Winner Sardar Naveed Haider: “Whatever happened during the election was bad, but it’s in the past now.
  • (19) In the nave are two rows of columns – 22 in all – that were taken from ancient Roman sites.
  • (20) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.

Navel


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
  • (n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
  • (n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
  • (2) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
  • (3) The cut of the skin makes two flaps suppressing the navel which is generally salient.
  • (4) Similarly, devices used in the cutting of the umbilical cord and placenta were not properly sterilized and potentially dangerous substances were applied at the navel after cutting the umbilical cord or placenta.
  • (5) A place to study your navel, if you can still locate it.
  • (6) The simian and human Navel strains comprised a single serogroup, distinct from the established Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma species of the class Mollicutes.
  • (7) Retropneumooperitoneum following the increasingly popular method of intermittent respiration by above atmospheric pressure respiration of the newborn is now more frequently observed, as is necrosis of the wall of the bladder by instillation of medication and catheters in the arteries of the navel.
  • (8) Revealed: how developers exploit flawed planning system to minimise affordable housing Read more The furore over the opening of the cafe in late 2014 exemplified the problem with hipster-hating: that it is often little more than middle-class navel-gazing.
  • (9) Incidentally, I'm aware this is Olympic-level navel gazing, but you're a human being with free will who can stop reading any time.
  • (10) An increased incidence of lesions of the navel, hocks, and nares was observed, but regression analyses showed them to be relatively unimportant in the determination of body weights.
  • (11) His torso was cut open, gashed deep to the navel, and the index finger of his right hand torn off.
  • (12) The authors describe an umbilical anomaly marked by confluent erythematous and crusted plaques, spreading beyond the navel limits and histologically regarded as a choristia that is to say a displacement of intestinal tissue within the epidermis.
  • (13) During the course of observation, navel-like lesions developed in one of the other 27 eyes with other abnormalities and in 4 of the 17 eyes without any abnormality.
  • (14) A 16-month-old girl was referred to our clinic with a complaint of a cystic mass in the region of the navel.
  • (15) We will not take the Senate for granted in 2015, as perhaps sometimes we were tempted to do in 2014, but the important thing is not to navel gaze, it’s not to focus on ourselves; the important thing it to get on with the job of being a better government today than we were yesterday, being a better government tomorrow than we are today.” The defence minister, Kevin Andrews, dismissed suggestions Abbott should step down.
  • (16) In a 1969 European title defence at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, against another Italian, Piero Tomasoni, Cooper suffered the lowest blow of his career – a dent seven inches below his navel in the aluminium cup covering his genitals.
  • (17) In spite of isopropanol being reported as a more efficient skin disinfectant than ethanol in several experimental models, no significant differences were seen in the frequency of navel colonization or in infection rates between the two treatment groups.
  • (18) People-watching, navel-gazing, and gentle meandering are all that are really required of you, and doing so little actually allows you to find yourself too.
  • (19) Yet this is rarely what mainstream politics is now about.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jon Glasby ‘It’s not about ivory towers or navel gazing, it’s about high quality research making a dfference to people’s lives’ Jon Glasby, professor and head of school designate, school of social policy, University of Birmingham, says: “With so much emphasis on Stem, social sciences can sometimes appear to take a back seat.
  • (20) Interestingly, in the conical incisor teeth, the enamel navel, septum and knot are absent, and Hox-8 has a symmetrical expression pattern.