(n.) One who serves on board of the same ship with another; a fellow sailor.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the boat pulls in, a few of the shipmates are looking a little the worse for wear but that doesn't stop them soldiering on to the next party.
(2) Rising star Jack O'Connell (Starred Up, United, This is England) plays Zamperini, Domhnall Gleeson and Garrett Hedlund are his shipmates in an adventure scripted by the Coen brothers.
(3) It does collect and drop from the roof in one or two places, but nothing in comparison with what is common in other ships, and if we lighted the stove it would disappear altogether.” His shipmates, he said, were “extraordinary fellows for standing the cold – with the thermometer at 22° below Bentzen goes up in his shirt and trousers to read the thermometer on deck”.
(4) He described how a shipmate routinely used a blue bank card to get past security into his base after losing his Royal Navy identity card on a night out.
(5) It was reminiscent of Spock at the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where he asked to be judged alongside his shipmates for their desertion despite the fact that he was bodily dead at the time and only existed as a quasi-soul in McCoy's mind.
(6) Bryson, who was also based at Faslane for two years before he left the service in 2013, said a shipmate routinely used a blue bank card to get past security into base after losing his Royal Navy identity card on a night out.
(7) Yet, we must be sensitive to the needs of our shipmates.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Force Awakens reunited shipmates Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).
Tamil
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
(n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
(n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
(2) • The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were guilty of human rights abuses and demanded a cut of international NGOs' spending in the areas they controlled.
(3) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(4) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(5) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(6) Neither should our distaste for the war be interpreted to mean that we support the Tamil Tigers.
(7) The UN report said most of the casualties came from government shelling and called for an independent international inquiry into what it called credible claims against Colombo and the Tamil Tigers .
(8) Sri Lanka mounted a merciless final assault on the Tamil Tiger insurgency in 2009 .
(9) The announcement will mean scrapping a review process set up by Labor in October 2012 to examine the cases of 55 mostly Tamil refugees, deemed to be a threat by Asio.
(10) It is believed that nine of the detainees adversely assessed by Asio, all Tamils, are refugees.
(11) Only a handful of local reporters have been permitted to visit the former territories held by the LTTE, who were fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, since the bloody and controversial end to the 26-year civil conflict in May last year.
(12) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
(13) Blood samples from 240 unrelated healthy Tamil-speaking South Indian Hindus residing in Madras (capital city of Tamil Nadu, India) were screened for HLA-A and -B antigen profiles.
(14) Fox's decision came after talks with Hague, the foreign secretary, and a warning by the British Tamils Forum that his trip would send mixed messages to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is facing strong international pressure for an investigation into allegations that Sri Lanka forces committed war crimes.
(15) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
(16) 20 July 2006: The Tamil Tigers close the sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people, prompting the government to launch its first major offensive on Tiger territory since the 2002 ceasefire.
(17) Recounting how the rebels, known formally as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) once controlled a wide swathe of the north and much of the east, Rajapaksa said that for the first time in 30 years, the country was unified under its elected government.
(18) Victims of Tamil Tiger attacks filed a lawsuit against Rajaratnam in New Jersey on Thursday, accusing him of assisting "crimes against humanity".
(19) Quietly, two weeks ago, a Tamil woman called Ranjini and her toddler son walked free from the gates of Villawood detention centre.
(20) The US state department and human rights groups have accused Sri Lanka's government and the rebels of war crimes against civilians during the final months of fighting, when government forces crushed the Tamil Tigers and ended the conflict.