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Surf


Definition:

  • (n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
  • (n.) The bottom of a drain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (2) Others, such as Guardian TV critic Charlie Brooker's recent show, even attracted a large teenage audience - who, if industry orthodoxy is to be believed, are more likely to be surfing the internet than watching TV these days.
  • (3) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
  • (4) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
  • (5) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
  • (6) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
  • (7) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima have a built-in mechanism that prevents polyspermy: the eggs show a 70 percent decrease in sperm receptivity 5 seconds after fertilization, and become completely resistant to sperm by 15 seconds.
  • (8) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
  • (9) The Northern Region Surf Lifesaving Association Helicopter Rescue Service is one of the few aeromedical services in Australia mainly funded and staffed through the voluntary efforts of a local community.
  • (10) Download downturn That in turn carries serious risks for the music industry, which for some time has surfed along on the iPod sales boom, warns Mark Mulligan, vice-president of the global media practice at the analysis company Forrester Research .
  • (11) The Surf-3 gene (which could code for a basic polypeptide of 266 amino acids) is a highly expressed member of a pseudogene-containing multigene family.
  • (12) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
  • (13) While university students at Kim Chaek University of Science and Technology and the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology also have carefully monitored internet access – and are under strict instructions to access only educational materials – most North Koreans have never surfed the web.
  • (14) Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA.
  • (15) Surfing the Heaviest Wave in the World - Teahupoo Pipe dreams 4.
  • (16) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
  • (17) We’re mostly Brits, with a sprinkling of Canadians, Dutch women and a guy from Dubai, and of mixed abilities; some have been surfing for years while others, like me, have barely stood up on a board before.
  • (18) RNase alters the in vitro assembly of spindle asters in homogenates of meiotically dividing surf clam (Spisula solidissima) oocytes.
  • (19) But that is not borne out if 97% of users will see no change – because their surfing habits will persist as before.
  • (20) While web surfing for possible names, Dalton says he realised that Mayo was born in Eccles, part of Salford.

Surfer


Definition:

  • (n.) The surf duck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surfers chase the reliable swell here when it's flat further west.
  • (2) The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
  • (3) Winter says he had "friends who would spend 14 hours trying to pull a Butthole Surfers song offline.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 11.09am GMT 9.35am GMT From Auckland You can always rely on surfers to keep an eye on the world.
  • (5) The mechanical work on the lung required during spontaneous breathing with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) was compared with different methods of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in nine young healthy athletes (surfers) at levels of 5, 10, 15, and 20 cm H2O.
  • (6) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
  • (7) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (8) A case of anterolateral first rib fracture produced by indirect trauma in a surfer is presented.
  • (9) According to campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) (pdf), at least one thing is clear: we need to build greater producer responsibility across the supply chain and hold principle polluters to account.
  • (10) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
  • (11) Authors describe a case of S. mansoni intestinal schistosomiasis in a young wind-surfer.
  • (12) The Lewis hunting response was seen only in the toes of the surfers.
  • (13) Ian Morgan, field operative for the Environment Agency (and keen local surfer), said he had never seen anything like the storm and waves in the 20 years he has lived on Portland.
  • (14) Photograph: Steven Morris Ian Morgan, field operative for the Environment Agency (and keen local surfer), said he had never seen anything like the storm and waves in the 20 years he had lived on Portland.
  • (15) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
  • (16) It used to be a leftie joke that the quickest way to crash a thinktank website was to post a research paper entitled The Swedish Model because not every net surfer would recognise another tribute to Scandinavian social democracy by its title alone.
  • (17) In nonsurfers, plasma cortisol approximated the decrease anticipated because of the circadian cycle but was elevated in the surfers.
  • (18) "I was a surfer as a kid, I was a surfer in Vietnam, I am still a surfer," he likes to say.
  • (19) Lifeguards patrol the beach in the summer and surfers are asked not to come within 100 metres of the tide line, to allow bathers a good stretch of safe water.
  • (20) Web surfers repeatedly caught obtaining music, films or video games illegally would first be warned; thereafter the agency would have the power to cut off their web access for up to a year.

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