(n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
(n.) Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
(n.) A wing; a van.
(n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
(n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
(n.) A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.
(n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.
(n.) To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a water fowl.
(n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton.
(n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.
(n.) To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
(v. t.) To pass or move upon, as in a ship, by means of sails; hence, to move or journey upon (the water) by means of steam or other force.
(v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
(v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(2) Porec , a port in Istria, is a good place to learn to sail; try the marina (marina-porec@pu.tel.hr) or istra-yachting.com .
(3) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
(4) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(5) 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.
(6) When I clambered onto the fishing boat after the last men left, it occurred to me that an armed smuggler might be hiding below deck, waiting to sail the boat back to Libya.
(7) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(8) "In ocean races in sailing a handicap prize is awarded as well as a line honours prize to recognise sailing skill rather than simply the newest and most expensive boat," writes Benjamin Penny.
(9) For most people this ship has sailed and they want to move on.
(10) The new royal research ship will be sailing into the world’s iciest waters to address global challenges that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, including global warming, the melting of polar ice and rising sea levels,” he said.
(11) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
(12) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
(13) The SAILS offers a criterion-based means of quantifying patient functional status for both clinical and research applications.
(14) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(15) "I don't know why," he says, but it's something that didn't even happen at his lowest ebb: amid the bleakness of the early 70s, he somehow kept sporadically producing incredible songs: Til I Die, This Whole World, Sail On Sailor… There's always touring, however.
(16) Back in Liverpool, however: "My great-grandfather on my mother's side was a qualified ship's captain, but was never allowed to sail out of Liverpool as such, because the crews would not take orders from a black captain.
(17) Ahmad boarded at roughly the same time, calling to tell his family he would be sailing for Italy that night.
(18) Tourists Guy and Jo from Margaret River, in Western Australia, were preparing to sail in the lagoon in a glass-bottom boat when a police officer stopped them.
(19) A similar surge was expected this “sailing season”, Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR, told Guardian Australia.
(20) Some of those operations may “sail close to the wind” in terms of breaking existing laws.
Sheet
Definition:
(v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
(v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
(v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
(v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
(v. t.) the book itself.
(v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
(v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
(v. t.) A sail.
(v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
(v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
(v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
(v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(2) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(3) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(4) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(5) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(6) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(7) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
(8) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
(9) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(10) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
(11) A template showing typical histograms from commonly occurring CLPD was also produced on an acetate sheet.
(12) These findings suggest that the presence of features such as large prominent nucleoli, tumor growth in sheets, individual-cell necrosis, and nuclear pleomorphism may be used to predict recurrence of subtotally resected meningiomas that would not be classified as malignant by traditional criteria.
(13) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(14) The cortical vitreous of the normal (control) eye appeared to be a lamellar structure composed of sheets of collagen mesh.
(15) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
(16) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
(17) The simultaneous binding of the polypeptidic molecules to two opposing bilayers appears to be required in order to preserve the beta-sheet structure at pressures over approximately 9 kbar: a small proportion of the polypeptide, most likely the molecules at the surface of the aggregated bilayers, was found to convert to unordered and eventually to alpha-helical conformations in the pressure range 9-19 kbar.
(18) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(19) Cells containing A-layer and isolated A-layer sheets specifically bound laminin and fibronectin with high affinity.
(20) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.