(n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
(n.) That which is shipped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(2) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(3) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
(4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
(5) It also emerged that Cameron confronted Putin over arms supplies and had been personally involved in plans to prevent a Russian-manned shipment of three repaired attack helicopters and air defence systems reaching Syria.
(6) The first trial heard that Fleckney, a drug dealer known as "the chairman of the board", passed Clark information about drug shipments.
(7) The importation of a shipment of high-Se wheat from Australia in 1984 raised Se concentrations in breads and other wheat products two to four fold.
(8) The number of shipments in which Newcastle disease was found to be present in the birds is reviewed.
(9) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(10) Heins was speaking less than a week after RIM unveiled quarterly results with an operating loss of $643m (£409m) and handset shipments which dipped to their lowest level since spring 2009, amid a smartphone market growing at 50% annually.
(11) Michelle Wiese Bockman, markets editor of Lloyd's List, the shipping news and data provider, said the shipment provided "a signal that Libya is open to international trade and shipping.
(12) Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians.
(13) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
(14) The Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted a US official as saying Sudan had been warned in advance about the shipment.
(15) Similarly, 15 MAI strains were isolated from the lymph node pools of 12 deer from the 2 imported shipments.
(16) The former saw iPhone shipments rise from 26.9m in Q3 2012 to 33.8m in Q3 2013, but its market share dropped from 15.6% to 13.4% in that time.
(17) Analysts call shipments to intermediaries "sell-in"; the total number that actually reaches customers is "sell-through".
(18) PC calves had significantly less shrink after shipment and in 1971 significantly more rapid daily gain during the first weeks of the feeding period.
(19) While phablet shipments are still a small proportion of overall global smartphone shipments, they are seeing a marked increase in sales according to IDC's data.
(20) Areas with relatively poor adherence rates included pharmacy department preparation of investigational drug patient-information sheets (20.5%), maintaining information within the pharmacy on minimum stock levels (53.9%), mode of shipment (30.8%), time to receive investigational drugs after order placed (38.5%), acceptance of nursing transcriptions of oral orders (56.8%), including "investigational drug" on the dispensing label (55.8%), and approval of data sheets by the investigator and the institutional review board (40.5% and 37.8%, respectively).
Shipping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ship
(a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
(a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
(n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
(n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
(n.) Navigation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) 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.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.