(v. t.) That side of a vessel which is on the right hand of a person who stands on board facing the bow; -- opposed to larboard, or port.
(a.) Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard quarter; starboard tack.
(v. t.) To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel; as, to starboard the helm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Officials add that there are "large deformations" on the starboard side of the ship, Lizzy adds.
(2) Porcellacchia said an initial inspection of the starboard side, covered in brown slime from its 20 months underwater while the ship was stuck on a rocky seabed perch, "looks pretty bad".
(3) A similar analysis correctly classified 100% of the port rowers and 100% of the starboard rowers on the basis of their spectral parameters.
(4) Others were catapulted down corridors running athwart the ship or hurled from the starboard decks into the sea.
(5) "The lifeboat returned to the starboard side of the vessel and I climbed aboard up a rope ladder."
(6) In the coming months the team carrying out the salvage operation – Titan Salvage from the United States and the Italian engineering company Micoperi – will have to examine quite how damaged the starboard side of the ship is in order to decide how to proceed.
(7) "Large deformations" had been observed on the starboard side, said Girotto, but for the moment, the parbuckling was succeeding.
(8) Yahoo is the only Silicon Valley company we know that currently has a stock price almost entirely driven by the value of an entity outside of its control,” wrote Starboard principal Jeffrey Smith last month.
(9) Starboard is mounting a proxy campaign to win seats on AOL's board, and has been critical of Armstrong's decision to focus the firm on online media such as the Huffington Post, which it acquired last year for $315m.
(10) After 10 minutes, the starboard engine’s gauge ran hot.
(11) Undaunted, the climbers made it to a gangway 80ft over the vessel's starboard stern.
(12) The deal may come as a useful reprieve for Armstrong, who is facing pressure from the activist investor Starboard Value.
(13) Activist investor Starboard contacted the Yahoo board as the results were released demanding a change in management.
(14) If it succeeds, the team will be able to move on to the next phase of the salvage - establishing the extent of the damage to the starboard side, attaching additional sponsons to it, and then using the huge steel boxes to add buoyancy to the water-logged ship and help it to re-float.
(15) • The team has noticed "large deformations" on the starboard side, Girotto said.
(16) Read more Activist investor Starboard Value sent an open letter to Yahoo in November instructing the company to spin off its internet search and display advertising businesses and to devote the company to Aabaco (the division that owns the Alibaba stake) and Yahoo Japan, a joint venture with Japanese telecoms company Softbank.
(17) • The salvage crews say the shifted liner has shown significant "deformation" on the starboard side, with the extent of this damage still to be assessed .
(18) Twenty-three members of a men's collegiate varsity crew team consisting of port (N = 13) and starboard (N = 10) rowers were tested in a laboratory during a fatigue-inducing isometric contraction sustained at a relatively high, constant force.
(19) Cape de la Motte, East Antarctica: the Xue Long appeared as a dot on the horizon, against a bright blue sky, to the starboard side of our ice-locked ship just after dinnertime on Friday evening, local time.
Watches
Definition:
(n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(2) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(3) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
(4) The government has been counting on the fact that their attacks on the NHS are too complicated to be widely understood: after all, their Health and Social Care Act was much longer than the legislation that created the NHS under Aneurin Bevan’s watch in the first place.
(5) "We purposely watched it that way - to magnify the experience," Kidman says.
(6) Milan’s 4-0 win over Steaua in the European Cup final in 1989 was a great display so I’ve made my players watch the video.
(7) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(8) Yet Malema's influence continues to grow and his travails are watched with interest.
(9) Four million viewers tune in to the show every week and two million more watch online the next day.
(10) Lessons have been learned from previous Games, not least London 2012, in how to best frame the sporting action for maximum impact – not only for those watching on television but those attending in person.
(11) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(12) The UK is a country we are watching closely on these issues.
(13) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(14) But despite gendarmes keeping watch at entrances to the village, one local police officer said there were five times more journalists than security forces.
(15) I watch three hours of Smiley, then I have lunch, then I write for a couple of minutes. '
(16) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(17) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
(18) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(19) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(20) They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa."