(n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.
(v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Incorporation of FMDP into a dipeptide structure has produced effective antifungal agents (portage transport).
(2) This paper describes methods for simultaneous cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of repeated measurements obtained in cohort studies with regular examination schedules, then uses these methods to describe age-related changes in pulmonary function level among nonsmoking participants in the Six Cities Study, a longitudinal study of air pollution and respiratory health conducted between 1974 and 1983 in Watertown, Massachusetts; Kingston and Harriman, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; Steubenville, Ohio; Portage, Wisconsin; and Topeka, Kansas.
(3) Historically it was one of the first areas of western Canada visited by European explorers, travelling over the Methye Portage to reach the Clearwater and Athabasca rivers, rich sources of the furs that were shipped back to England to feed the demand for beaver hats – the first resource exploitation.
(4) Anoka and Portage cultivars of soybeans were inoculated with each of 8 and 24 strains, respectively, of Rhizobium japonicum and surveyed for H2 evolution and C2H2 reduction rates nodule weight, and plant dry weight.
(5) Nodules formed by strain 3Ilb 143 exhibited an efficiency of 1.0 on the following cultivars: Amsoy 71, Anoka, Bonus, Clark 63, Kent, Peking, and Portage.
(6) In Jamaica, however, professionals use the Portage model with only a few modifications.
(7) The isolation of multiresistant strains will be in rapport with the antibiotic resistant plasmide portage.
(8) Save time for Grand Portage state park which has Minnesota's highest waterfall.
(9) This paper describes how Portage has been adapted for brain-damaged adults.
(10) Many councils in England and Wales have reduced spending on portage, a speech and language therapy home visiting service used to prepare individuals up to five years old with learning disabilities for mainstream schooling, while almost one in five councils do not provide any portage services at all, Mencap said.
(11) The Portage model and its benefits to families are outlined.
(12) Of the 50 Portage County, Wisconsin, women who participated in the first study, 45 participated in the follow-up: 18 formerly exposed and 27 formerly unexposed.
(13) A cross-sectional epidemiological study investigating the respiratory health of children in two Canadian communities was conducted in 1983-1984 in Tillsonburg, Ontario, located in a region of moderately elevated concentrations of transported air pollutants, and in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, situated in a low pollution area.
(14) Ohio (7.30pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.3pt 2008 result: Obama won by 4.6pt 2004 result: Bush won by 2.1pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Hamilton (+2.2), Lake (-3.7), Montgomery (+1.6), Portage (+4.4), Stark (+0.9), Wood (+2.5) No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio.
(15) In order to circumvent the presumed permeability barrier to sulfanilic acid, advantage was taken of the technique of portage transport.
(16) Sulfur dioxide (SO2), sulfate, and particulate nitrate levels were significantly higher in Tillsonburg than in Portage la Prairie (P less than 0.05), but nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and inhalable particles (PM10) differed little between the communities.
(17) In the late 1960s in rural Wisconsin, the Portage Guide to Early Intervention was developed to manage development delay in preschool children.
(18) This overview of Portage services in various countries indicates that these services alone are relatively unimportant as direct agents of social change and may be an important element of broader social changes.
(19) As well as considering cross-cultural aspects of Portage, variability within one country, the United Kingdom, is considered by comparing one service in an inner-city area and one in a rural area.
(20) Professionals in India and Bangladesh have incorporated Portage into a variety of early intervention services, thereby modifying the model considerably.
Voyage
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country.
(n.) The act or practice of traveling.
(n.) Course; way.
(v. i.) To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
(v. t.) To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(3) The countdown has begun for Tim Peake’s exciting voyage into space .
(4) Possible mechanisms of changes developing in conditions of long-term voyage, especially the role of the state of the vegetative nervous system, and possibilities of prophylactic measures stimulating the weakening of dysfunctional disturbances are discussed.
(5) She was perhaps surprised to hear that the whole scheme of the thing came to Gaiman when, severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived on a stopover in Reykjavik, he saw the tourist centre's diorama of Leif Erikson's voyage to America.
(6) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
(7) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(8) China blasted off its Long March-7 new generation carrier rocket on a successful inaugural voyage on Saturday from a new launch centre, state media reported, as the country races ahead with an ambitious space program.
(9) The sea voyage takes roughly 1½ hours; tickets start at €10pp; advance booking is recommended during high season Ventotene Facebook Twitter Pinterest The piazza in Ventotene.
(10) The trip's leader, Huigen Yang, told Reuters this week that Chinese shipping companies, encouraged by the ship's success, may be planning a commercial voyage along the same route as soon as this summer.
(11) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(12) Just as important, legal channels must be created for refugees to claim asylum without undergoing deadly voyages across the sea or hidden in trucks.
(13) Shipowners have said it can save them €180,000-€300,000 on each voyage.
(14) Eighty naval cadets, unaccustomed to sailing in heavy seas reported during voyages on the high seas, symptoms of seasickness every hour for 4 consecutive hours after ingestion of 1 g of the drug or placebo.
(15) Nine galleries narrate the tale, from context-setting in boomtown early 1900s Belfast, through construction and fitting-out, all the way to the launch and catastrophic maiden voyage.
(16) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(17) It took some 1500 years to double this number by the time of Columbus' voyage to America.
(18) Sorensen has sailed deep into ice at both poles for 30 years, but this voyage is different, he says.
(19) During their voyage, they traverse the three acinus zones, and since in each they produce different enzymes, each zone represents a differentiation state of the advancing cell.
(20) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.