(n.) A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.
(n.) A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Stratolauncher won’t be fully operational for several years, and it may take decades before anyone designs a system that can propel man-made objects through space fast enough to reach a star over a human being’s lifespan, if it happens at all.
(2) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(3) Carpeting of the type commonly used in hospitals imposed a burden upon normal and patient wheelchair users propelling a wheelchair as reflected in increased energy cost per unit of distance traveled.
(4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(5) Some of the main protesters who have propelled the organization movement forward, particularly Deray McKesson , Netta Elzie and Stephen Houldsworth , have expressed no interest in backing down tonight.
(6) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(7) The video filmed by a witness , which propelled the case into the global spotlight, showed Scott was running away with his back turned when Slager, then an officer with the North Charleston police department, opened fire.
(8) Right now most are in for small repairs, propellers that sort of thing.
(9) The Texas senator Ted Cruz says the rise of Donald Trump makes him “very optimistic” the next occupant of the White House will be a conservative – perhaps himself – propelled there by the “volcanic rage” of voters.
(10) Beating and coordination of these short cilia were compared with those of cilia propelling water.
(11) His pioneering efforts helped propel Barbados to a leader in solar water heater use in the western hemisphere.
(12) Second, if two self-propelled objects are related in a special way--a relation called the BDR sequence--the infant perceives not only intentional movement but also one object as having the goal of affecting the other object.
(13) Wednesday’s attack during dawn prayers is the first attack on Maiduguri since 28 December, when Boko Haram killed at least 50 people in an operation involving rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers.
(14) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
(15) Allergic contact eczema from the use of deodorant sprays is sometimes caused by sensitization to the propellants.
(16) Interestingly, the thymine.adenine pair favours negative buckling for propellers mostly observed in DNA crystals while positive buckling is preferred by the cytosine.guanine pair.
(17) Republican guards used anti-aircraft guns, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades against the opposition camp and intensified the shelling of the streets surrounding the square.
(18) Bill Shorten pushes integrity inquiry but says political corruption isn't widespread Read more If politics is about people, and about connections, Shorten’s challenge for 2017 is not only validating the concerns of voters angry enough to propel Donald Trump to the White House, to Brexit and to vote for Pauline Hanson – but to persuade them to make a durable connection with him.
(19) He begins describing the crumbling wall of mud that enveloped him, the image of his young daughter propelling him to fight to the surface and take his first breath of air.
(20) Lloyd scored three times in just 16 minutes to propel the Americans to a 5-2 win and their first World Cup in 16 years, their third overall.
Skeg
Definition:
(n.) A sort of wild plum.
(n.) A kind of oats.
(n.) The after part of the keel of a vessel, to which the rudder is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 1980s, the British government tried to claim that the beaches of Brighton, Blackpool, Skegness and many other resorts weren’t used for bathing, to avoid dealing with the sewage, condoms and tampons that polluted them.
(2) Able to live on his savings from the restaurant, he took up his place; Dusty went to Skegness to work as a waitress.
(3) Nuttall will stand for Boston and Skegness in the June election, after losing the Stoke-on-Trent Central byelection in February.
(4) Mark Simmonds, conservative MP for Boston and Skegness, has resigned, citing the intolerable pressure of trying to live in London on an MP’s expenses.
(5) In the 2013 local elections, this county saw Ukip's best single result , when 16 new Ukip county councillors were elected, and the party became the official opposition; among the parliamentary seats that are reckoned to be vulnerable to a Ukip surge are Labour-held Great Grimsby, and Boston and Skegness, currently represented by the Tories.
(6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
(7) Skegness Tidal Surge A surge results in a particularly high tide in Skegness on the evening of Thursday 5 December 2013.
(8) Ukip under the current leadership, without positive radical policies, is finished as an electoral force.” The party lost 10 seats in Lincolnshire, where Nuttall has decided to run in the general election in the Boston and Skegness seat .
(9) Don't let the name put you off: Skegness (nicknamed Skeggy) has a wonderful beach, wide and largely empty, especially to the south towards Gibraltar Point.
(10) Moby doesn’t float my boat Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three dead whales wash up on Skegness beach – video After the heartbreak of the recent stranded whales , it’s lovely to see such a happy creature on the shores of Loch Nevis.
(11) Three dead sperm whales wash up on Skegness beach Read more These young males head north, enter the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, and unfortunately find this shallow sea a natural trap – difficult to navigate and short of food.
(12) And in the last chance saloon, Ukip leader Paul Nuttall said he would stand in the heavily Brexit-supporting constituency of Boston and Skegness as support for his party drops by the week, with many voters defecting to the Tories.
(13) Robert Pert, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, is among those hit by this loophole.
(14) After a lunch of strong tea and fish and chips in Mablethorpe, where children can jump on a small fleet of donkeys (and we gambled a plastic cupload of pennies in the amusement arcade), we dined out at the Windmill restaurant in Burgh-Le-Marsh, a few miles inland from Skegness.
(15) The Ministry of Defence said about 100 soldiers from the Catterick army base in Yorkshire had been deployed to Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast, where about 3,000 residents were urged to leave their homes or move upstairs.
(16) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(17) Well, for every teacher heading to Saudi Arabia, there’s a classroom in Skegness missing one.
(18) On a grim and blustery morning in the town some people know as "Skeg", conversations with locals suggest a town much more weary and fatalistic than Great Yarmouth, although people have a similar litany of complaints: awful local roads, shut-down shops, an economy that effectively dies for half the year.
(19) The first is the direct threat of a Ukip victory in a handful of mostly Conservative seats, such as South Thanet, Boston and Skegness, Castle Point, and Thurrock.
(20) After being unfrocked, Davidson eked out a living as an entertainer on the seafront at Skegness - where, in 1937, he was mauled to death by a lion.