(n.) A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.
(n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
(n.) Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Workers have begun delivering tarpaulins to survivors in Kathmandu and baby packs in the Bhaktapur district, which include children’s clothes, blankets and soap.
(2) Disembarkation was delayed while officials erected a white tarpaulin on the boat to block the media’s view.
(3) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
(4) Georgia's rescuers put up tarpaulins to shield her from the camera lenses as they extracted her through a 10ft square hole in the brickwork and took her to hospital.
(5) A large green tarpaulin, supported on scaffolding poles, was set up at the back of the building covering the area behind her basement flat and one next door to it.
(6) The goal came in front of the south end where before the game a gigantic tarpaulin had depicted Alfredo Di Stéfano, the man who changed this club for ever when he arrived in 1953.
(7) The structure, which is made of a tarpaulin-type pvc material, takes only 15 minutes to shut but could not be closed while the rain fell.
(8) The women had no electricity and no roof – merely a soggy fabric tarpaulin stretched between two walls.
(9) The meth addicts cluster on the riverbed, improvising tents with tarpaulin and shoelaces.
(10) For now, these mountain farmers have salvaged what they can from their destroyed homes and are sheltering under tarpaulins, in plastic vegetable tunnels, or even in cowsheds.
(11) Although she creates on a massive scale, her sculptures are often described as anti-monumental, the monument and its downfall contained within a form made of ordinary materials: cardboard, rags, rubber, tape, tarpaulin, paper, polystyrene.
(12) On a wall beside the tarpaulin-covered command centre in what some were calling Madrid's "Republic of Sol" – home to a press office, an infirmary and a legal centre – a list of needs had been pinned up.
(13) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.
(14) The boat was moved further away from the island and covered in a tarpaulin so the arrivals cannot be counted or identified, the sources said.
(15) Earlier, two British cargo planes left Oxfordshire to airdrop bottled water, tents and tarpaulins to displaced Iraqis encircled by militants.
(16) The planes were seen yesterday on a site owned by BAE Systems at Woodford in Stockport, with their cockpit windows taped up, close to an area sectioned off by tarpaulin sheets, where it is believed they will be broken up.
(17) By Monday about 200 tents were based there, as well as an increasingly intricate series of tarpaulin-covered structures to house necessities such as food, recycling and rubbish, and facilitate relations with the media.
(18) The victims are then covered with black tarpaulins.
(19) Setting ambitions and targets around the Rio anniversary has been a bit like removing the tarpaulin from the lifeboat, and then deciding it is better to go down with the ship because no one can be bothered to launch it.
(20) Just steps away, two half-brothers in their mid-forties with grubby faces and missing teeth are sitting on a camouflage tarpaulin, sharing some weed.
Waterproof
Definition:
(a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
(n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
(n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.
(v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the thickness of the waterproofing sheath is not a very sensitive variable, assuming the thickness is between 0.5 and 2.0 mm.
(2) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
(3) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).
(4) The BBC sessions version of Hey is one of my favourite ever songs and to hear that, as the sun was trying to break through, almost made me forget the fact I'd lost my waterproof and was walking about sopping wet in a glorified bin-liner.
(5) In the meantime, clinicians should be aware of this problem and may choose to prevent these errors by wrapping the connection with waterproof tape.
(6) He issues instructions home for new boots, a waterproof sheet, a lamp, field glasses and a camera.
(7) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
(8) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(9) Below this is a very thin waterproof layer of wax and 'sclerotin' continuous with the contents of the tubular filaments, which is readily removed by adsorptive dusts.
(10) British mountaineer Kenton Cool was sitting in the check-in lounge at Gatwick airport last Thursday with a locked waterproof box that, if all goes according to plan, will not leave his side until he reaches Everest's summit for a 10th time this spring.
(11) He has kitted us out in our super-modern waterproof gear that makes us look like a family of Scandinavian traffic cops, but about which even the teenager doesn't complain.
(12) Let's hope he's not brought his brolly along this time, but invested in a nice waterproof jacket instead, a mac maybe.
(13) Waterproof footwear and clothing should be worn to minimize skin contact.
(14) Make sure you take a waterproof bivvy for your sleeping bag, plenty of warm layers and hot food and drink.
(15) It is also waterproof and would be perfect to use in hydrogen reservoirs.
(16) After struggling into a dry suit, I grabbed a handful of waterproof gear bags and headed down to the beach.
(17) Motorola is promising “all-day battery life” for the Moto E, and has fitted it with features such as Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 and P2i’s waterproof nano coating (which makes the phone splash-proof) that are found only on smartphones costing twice as much as the Moto E. As with the Moto G, Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android for the Moto E, something that cannot be said for most of the other smartphones in its class.
(18) Bedding has been constructed with a vapour-permeable waterproof fabric that is impermeable to house dust mite antigen (Der p1).
(19) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
(20) Try a waterproof picnic blanket, much cheaper and easy to keep clean.