(n.) One whose occupation is to assist in the management of ships at sea; a mariner; a sailor; -- applied both to officers and common mariners, but especially to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The last save in a competitive match was perhaps the most memorable: David Seaman stopping Gary McAllister's 'rolling ball' during Euro 96.
(2) "They have some lawsuits in the works, and they're pretty passionate people," said Paul Seamans, of Draper, South Dakota, who farms and ranches on land the pipeline would cross.
(3) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
(4) Top coach-in-residence Mark Seaman is on hand to teach you how to bunnyhop like a pro – and avoid biffing (crashing).
(5) He spent four years in the navy after joining as a boy seaman.
(6) Trident whistleblower needs to be listened to even if he is exaggerating Read more Able Seaman William McNeilly, 25, a newly qualified engineer, claimed that Britain’s nuclear deterrent was a “disaster waiting to happen” in a report detailing 30 alleged safety and security breaches, including a collision between HMS Vanguard and a French submarine during which a senior officer thought: “We’re all going to die.” McNeilly wrote that a chronic shortage of personnel meant that it was “a matter of time before we’re infiltrated by a psychopath or a terrorist; with this amount of people getting pushed through”.
(7) Seaman saved the penalty, Jason McAteer rammed in the rebound, and Fowler ended up winning Uefa's Fair Play award for his honesty.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Arsenal dominated the ball, but in the 105th minute, Ryan Giggs, a second-half substitute, leapt upon a Patrick Vieira mistakeand darted between Lee Dixon, Martin Keown and Tony Adams before smashing the ball past David Seaman to score one of the great FA Cup goals .
(9) Results further indicate that, just as cell partition in charged phase systems reflects membrane charge-associated properties not readily measured by means other than partition (Brooks, D.E., Seaman, G.V.F.
(10) We can confirm that Able Seaman McNeilly has left the naval service the details of which are a matter for the individual and his employer,” said a naval spokeswoman.
(11) Hobsbawm married his first wife, Muriel Seaman, in 1943.
(12) Able Seaman McNeilly, 25, is in the custody of Royal Navy police at an undisclosed military establishment in Scotland after he was apprehended at Edinburgh airport on Monday night.
(13) (MACLENNAN, D.H., YIP, C. C., ILES, G. H., and SEAMAN, P. (1972) Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
(14) Gillies first used the tubed pedicle flap in reconstructing the face of a naval seaman burned in World War I. Axial pattern flaps such as the deltopectoral are widely used in the treatment of head and neck cancer and the one-stage free flap obviously has an exciting future.
(15) The more sophisticated computer analysis of the data has revealed a substantial CD contribution from the low-affinity sites (approximately 30% of the high affinity contribution at pH 6.94) and suggests that skeletal TN-C with Ca2+ bound at the low-affinity sites is in a different conformation from that when just the high-affinity sites are occupied, in agreement with a recent nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study on this system (Seaman, K. B., Hartshorne, D. J.
(16) "I mean, you just wouldn't see David Seaman or Jens Lehmann wearing a pink shirt, would you?
(17) Barewood College, near Wokingham, was a school for the sons of merchant seaman (Kemp's father was a sailor; he was lost at sea in 1940).
(18) It also showed a handwritten letter purporting to be by leading seaman Turney to her parents, saying she had "written a letter to the Iranian people to apologise for us entering into their waters".
(19) Mankell, who has been politically active from a young age and was once a merchant seaman, said he had been struck by the lack of other writers and intellectuals on the voyage and called on others to become involved.
(20) David Seaman came racing out of his area, but Giggs took the ball round him and round Sol Campbell to leave sight of an open goal.
Shaman
Definition:
(n.) A priest of Shamanism; a wizard among the Shamanists.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(2) The shaman is a specialist in producing and managing altered states of consciousness.
(3) • Mayan shamans took part in a ceremony to mark the end of the Mayan cycle and the start of the new age in the ancient Mayan site of Tikal, 350 miles (560km) north of Guatemala City.
(4) Accessible to non-specialists, the system conveyed by these recitations acts to validate shamanic intervention as a significant and intelligible activity.
(5) Shamans themselves have adapted their politics, diagnoses and symbolic actions to an increasingly cold social climate.
(6) This discussion reveals those aspects of the shaman's experience that render her more, rather than less, like those she treats and suggests a process whereby the shared reality of shaman and client is realized in lived experiences, rituals, and conversations.
(7) Psychotherapeutic management of a potential spirit medium (shaman) in a modern University Hospital setting in Malaysia is described.
(8) Using their oral texts, shamans effectively reproduce worlds that require shamanic interventions.
(9) I went to Peru to Machu Picchu and did ancient shamanic ceremonies to cleanse myself after I eventually realised why I couldn’t let her go.
(10) The pharmacological effects of the alkaloid on the human body are shown to have informed shamanic therapeutic practices and beliefs.
(11) This time, the insecure, anxious Howard Moon (Barratt) and the self-assured, narcissistic Vince Noir (Fielding) work in a second-hand shop owned by their shaman friend Naboo (played by Michael Fielding).
(12) However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states.
(13) Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism.
(14) In the postshamanic culture derivatives of shamanism and non-inspirational healers (naturalists) are active.
(15) The shaman may also be medically active when his expert knowledge of the supernatural disease agents is called for.
(16) Differences included more complex theories about illness, greater number of folk practitioner types and greater differentiation of the shaman role (i.e.
(17) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(18) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(19) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(20) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.