(v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
(v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
(v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(2) "Stowe was one of the most important political gardens of the 18th century, open to the public then, and still open today," she says.
(3) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
(4) His successor must also respond to a world in which more and more screens are stowed in the pocket and viewed on the move.
(5) The CO2 electrode concept had occurred to Gesell in 1925, but for measurement of gas only, and to Gertz and Loeschcke, who were unaware of the Stow-Severinghaus electrode, in 1958.
(6) With the normal seats stowed away, the Jocks – as the men are known – arranged themselves on the floors of the helicopters, legs tucked around the man in front of them and the bulky rifles, rocket launchers, radios and other kit.
(7) They believed they wanted to take control and believed Britain would be better off … These kind of awful things are done by a minority who come from the sewers who want to exploit division and have their own racist agenda.” Map Halfon, who backed remain, added: “All of us need to stand up for tolerance and kindness and against any kind of division.” Police in Harlow have been given the power to order anyone involved in crime or harassment to leave The Stow.
(8) He decided he would start stowing away rare indigenous grape varieties with the goal of preserving as much diversity as he could.
(9) The classrooms have hooks on the back wall to stow jackets and bags, to stop them getting in the way.
(10) Southwark Cathedral, once the parish church of St Mary Overie, doesn’t seem particularly far away, it has to be said but this could, nonetheless, be what Stow was talking about.
(11) It's manual labor, basically doing inventory counts or stowing inventory," he explains.
(12) Trump’s plane does without the emergency medical facilities secreted on Air Force One, which has an operating table discreetly stowed in a wall like a fold-up bed.
(13) A Metropolitan police spokesman said today that he was arrested for stowing away in an aircraft contrary to the Air Navigation Order 2009.
(14) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
(15) According to the Civil Aviation Authority, 2.4m tonnes of air cargo has been carried in and out of the UK in the year to date, two-thirds of it stowed in the holds of passenger planes.
(16) The man who crashed to earth in a south-west London suburb on Sunday made his doomed attempt to stow away to Heathrow on a British Airways plane flying from Luanda, the Angolan capital, flight data records and a handful of money suggest.
(17) New reports documenting the dangers of the camp are published every week; on Monday Unicef research suggested that the Calais refugee children were risking their lives 2,000 times a week to reach Britain, trying to stow away in lorries or jump on trains.
(18) Speaking just days after it emerged British police stepped in to rescue a seven-year-old Afghan boy who had stowed in a lorry from the French port, after he sent a text he was suffocating, Alf Dubs has called on the prime minister to take urgent action to provide a safe passage for child refugees.
(19) One Sudanese man said: “I would never try in Belgium because there the port is international, you wouldn’t know where you’re going if you stowed away.” Several were afraid of going to the Netherlands for fear that, if they were caught by police, they would be forced to declare asylum on the spot.
(20) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
Treasure
Definition:
(n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
(n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.
(n.) That which is very much valued.
(v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
(2) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
(3) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
(4) The previous day in the Commons, Miliband had accused former Conservative party treasurer Lord Fink of tax avoidance and talked about “dodgy” donors.
(5) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, defended the government's planned changes to higher education during an appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night.
(6) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
(7) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
(8) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
(9) Frankly, it is rather a shame that he does not fall under the Treasure Act (to do so he would have to be over 300 years old and be composed of more than 10% gold or silver).
(10) Darth Vader is no match for Treasure Island, Guardian 19 November 1983 In the early years, Stevenson did not consider Treasure Island one of his great achievements, perhaps because he did not have to work hard over it.
(11) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(12) Turning on the community suggests they are spooked by the growing support to protect our national treasures.
(13) Treasurer Wayne Swan says largely because we have a fixed price in Australia's carbon pricing scheme to allow certainty for businesses having to make the transition.
(14) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.
(15) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(16) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
(17) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(18) Ambling along Long Beach, south of Tofino, exploring treasures in tidal pools can easily absorb days.
(19) Your commitment, passion and, crucially, skills will be treasured elsewhere.
(20) Back when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University, Andrew Leigh (now the federal shadow assistant treasurer) co-authored a study that found Chinese applicants must submit 68% more applications to get an interview than those with Anglo-Saxon names.