What's the difference between sailor and seafaring?

Sailor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Separation of the methyl esters was performed on columns of 10% sailor on Chromosorb.
  • (2) "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.
  • (3) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
  • (4) This is a haven for sailors from near and far, and filled with locals whose faces you might recognise from Howards' Way.
  • (5) The releases, including that of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, coincided with the end of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and came days after the release of 10 American sailors briefly detained by the Revolutionary Guard.
  • (6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
  • (7) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
  • (8) A set of factors of ship's environment greatly affected the onset of diseases in sailors.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) The rejection of contentious themes resulted in a domestic drama in which Ellida's sexual rejection of her husband and her obsession with the lost sailor is steered towards an uplifting conclusion.
  • (11) Manouchehr Mottaki told the Associated Press that Britain must admit that its sailors entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) Beastly Brits Dom: This show should have been called “British people are awful”, which is what Owen says when they spot Kevin on what had to be the campest video-game launch in history (hello sailors!).
  • (14) Use of interrater agreement as a reliability index and two cutoff points for the partition of the sample resulted in the elimination of about one-third of the initial sampl and the formation of two subsamples-the "sick" (N equals 45) and "not sick" (N equals 73) sailors.
  • (15) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
  • (16) Iran dramatically raised the stakes in its tense diplomatic stand-off with Britain last night, broadcasting a propaganda video of the British sailors and marines seized last week, including a "confession" that they had entered Iranian waters.
  • (17) Last month General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, warned that manpower was increasingly seen as an "overhead" and that Britain was in danger of being left with hollowed-out armed forces boasting "exquisite" equipment but lacking the soldiers, sailors and airmen needed to operate it.
  • (18) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
  • (19) Prince Felipe, who competed as a sailor at the 1992 Barcelona Games, repeated the mantra that Madrid's bid "made sense" because 80% of the venues were already built.
  • (20) The International Sailing Federation said just over 7% of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.

Seafaring


Definition:

  • (a.) Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
  • (2) Systolic zone murmurs were recorded in 4.19% of the seafarers, including those with heart defects (1.44%), therein mitral valve insufficiency (0.79%), mitral valve prolapse syndrome (0.39%) and aortal valve stenosis (0.26%).
  • (3) The alcohol use and abuse was a major risk factor in accidents and fatal injuries in seafarers and fishermen.
  • (4) The crew of the Montecristo resorted to a traditional seafaring means of communication when their ship was hijacked by pirates.
  • (5) In the period 1986-1988 a prospective study comprising 30 crew members of deep-sea factory-trawlers (altogether 2468 fishermen) and 85 of the merchant navy vessels (total 2906 seafarers).
  • (6) The Seafarers Health Improvement Program (SHIP) was initiated in 1978 by the United States Public Health Service to improve the health status of seafarers, their health environment, medical care and safety aboard ship, and communication between parties responsible for the health and safety of American seafarers.
  • (7) Hadid based the project on the fishing and seafaring heritage of the city.
  • (8) Depp again stars as Lapointe, this time helping out a duo whose friend, played by Justin Long, has gone missing after trying to interview a demented seafarer – who intends to turn him into a walrus.
  • (9) To a greater extent they should be involved in training seafarers in first aid and primary health care, and in health education activities among seamen, during sea voyages.
  • (10) To assess the risk of ischaemic heart disease, the following examinations were conducted in 350 seafarers, 480 deep-sea fishermen and 500 dockers: physical examination, chest X-ray, standard 12-lead electrocardiogram, exercise stress test, echocardiography, laboratory tests.
  • (11) 2013 saw Echo begin another long deployment - 18 months away surveying the seas and improving seafarers’ charts for the UK Hydrographic Office.
  • (12) 322 cases of closed fracture and 69 cases of open fracture in Russian seafarers injured on ships were treated.
  • (13) A normal heart first sound was recorded in 95.41% of seafarers, normal second sound in 95.94%, and in 95.05% and 95.05% of the undergraduates, respectively.
  • (14) With no word on the fate of the crew, relatives gathered at a seafarers’ union hall in Jacksonville, Florida where they were briefed by the Coast Guard and the ship’s owner.
  • (15) He has designed some of the biggest and most spectacular yachts ever to set sail and can offer just about anything a seafaring billionaire's heart desires – from tennis courts to personal submarines, waterfalls and even special stability features for those prone to feeling a little bilious on the high seas.
  • (16) A detailed appraisal of the British seafarer and his way of life is described and the prevailing management of sexually transmitted disease in the seafarer is outlined.
  • (17) Will seafarers continue to take ships through the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden if no ransoms can be paid?
  • (18) The above differences in the health status of seafarers examined cannot be attributed only to the changes in their work conditions.
  • (19) The impact of specific working conditions on ships on the psyche of seafarers is discussed.
  • (20) Doctors also consulted injured seafarers 2456 times in cases of injuries, wounds, contusions, broken bones, burns, scalds etc.

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