(n.) One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given the number of desperate people attempting to reach Europe by land or sea on incredibly risky journeys, stowaways on aircraft are comparatively rare.
(2) Stowaway death of man who died with a single pound in his pocket Read more The Angolan capital responded to that event by tightening security to have all international flights followed by a security patrol vehicle for evening departures, keeping the plane’s undercarriage in full view.
(3) A Romanian stowaway has survived a 97-minute flight from Vienna to Heathrow while clinging to the retracted undercarriage of the aeroplane.
(4) US Federal Aviation Authority records suggest that, at best, one in four stowaways survives.
(5) Records collated by the US Federal Aviation Authority suggest that at best one in four stowaways survives, but many others die or fall in transit.
(6) In Hugo's list of Parisian gangsters active in the 1830s, there is a stowaway: "Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, or Hotwhack, Springlike, Golightly Brujon.
(7) That this latest incident appears to have originated in Johannesburg, a major international airport, will worry airport security experts, who have pointed out that if a stowaway can reach a plane’s exterior and hide, planting an explosive could also be possible.
(8) But airport perimeter fences are often surrounded by the worst poverty, such as the shanty towns in Luanda, the Angolan airport from where that last reported Heathrow-bound stowaway flew.
(9) Stowaways risk being crushed or burned by the wheels as soon as they are retracted after takeoff.
(10) The tragic death of a stowaway in London , who plunged from a plane, echoes that of José Matada, who died with a single pound in his pocket after hiding in the landing gear of a plane.
(11) The aircraft lands in Luanda at 5am and sits on the tarmac until the return at midnight, giving potential stowaways time and the cover of darkness.
(12) Stowaway fell to death from plane on to London office after 8,000-mile flight Read more The fact that one of the two men who secreted themselves on the eight-hour BA flight from Johannesburg to London Heathrow has survived the journey, albeit in a serious condition in hospital, is astonishing.
(13) The BA spokesman said stowaways were a rare occurrence on any passenger aircraft, and there was very little chance of surviving a flight in the landing gear bay.
(14) A man remains in a critical condition in hospital after surviving a 10-hour flight by clinging to the undercarriage of a British Airways flight from which another stowaway is feared to have plunged to his death.
(15) Yesterday they showed off hi-tech equipment already operating at Belgian ports to detect stowaways in freight lorries.
(16) The body of a presumed stowaway was discovered on a British Airways plane that arrived at Heathrow from South Africa on Thursday.
(17) There have been other dead bodies found in south-west London: in 2001, a stowaway from Pakistan fell into the car park of a Homebase store, not far from East Sheen, somehow causing no more casualties on the ground below.
(18) "Police were alerted at 7.37pm on Sunday 6 June, regarding a suspected stowaway on a private aeroplane that had landed at Heathrow,'' he said.
(19) Groups of migrants have attempted to board lorries bound for Dover by climbing over a perimeter fence around a lorry park, while one stowaway managed to hide inside a British woman's car last week before being discovered in Kent.
(20) Le Havre was the first film in French by Finnish deadpan stylist Aki Kaurismäki, and its story of a shoe-shine man helping a fugitive stowaway African boy evade the police had something of the Dardennes about it, as well as a bit of Amélie .
Submarine
Definition:
(a.) Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.
(n.) A submarine plant or animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
(2) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(3) He says: "Everybody in Britain wants to be safe in their bed at night, but they don't want to build the submarines.
(4) South Australian MPs were concerned if Japan was awarded the contract local shipbuilder ASC would miss out on the chance to build the submarines.
(5) I subscribe to the view that Britain should remain a nuclear power and that our deterrent should continue to be submarine based.
(6) This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that personnel assigned to submarine duty would display less physical fitness as compared to shore-based personnel.
(7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
(8) A potentially serious, and expensive problem is that the UK and US timetables for building a new generation of submarines and missiles to go on them are out of sync.
(9) He promised to be consultative and then made a promise to a backbencher about awarding the submarines contract without consulting his cabinet, or even some of his South Australian ministers.
(10) A later investigation suggests the boat was sunk by a torpedo launched from a North Korean submarine.
(11) In a confidential report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that safety failings at the UK's main nuclear submarine base at Faslane, near Glasgow, are a "recurring theme" and ingrained in the base's culture.
(12) Australian officials estimate developing up to 12 submarines to replace ageing Collins-class submarines will cost at least $50bn (US$40bn).
(13) America's biggest companies have spent a similar amount beefing up their cybersecurity in the past five years, but analysts say this hasn't been enough to prevent "significant military losses" involving stealth, nuclear weapon and submarine technology, though none of the companies involved will admit it.
(14) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
(15) Repetitive, three-month separations and reunions are experienced by a group of United States Navy submariners and their wives.
(16) According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea when the vessel approached.
(17) In some situations the precrash position of the occupant allowed him to submarine beneath the belt system, allowing the belt to ride up on the soft belly wall.
(18) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
(19) By combining earlier results from ICESat and data from other studies, including measurements made by submarines travelling under the polar ice cap, Laxon said preliminary analysis now gave a clear indication of Arctic sea-ice loss over the past eight years, both in winter and in summer.
(20) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.