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Caravel
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- Small trading vessel also used for exploration. three-masted, usually square rigged on the two forward masts, and having a lateen rigged mizzen mast.
- A ship with triangular sails that allowed it to sail into the wind and with square sails that carried it forward when the wind was at its back.
- A small 15th century two or three-masted trading and exploration vessel, that could be either lateen or square-rigged on the forward masts, but was normally lateen-rigged on the mizzen. when lateen- 63 caravel rigged, a caravel could speedily navigate rivers and shallow coastal waters. when square-rigged it was a fast oceangoing sailer. (two of christopher columbus’ ships—pinta and nina—were caravels, but his flagship santa maria was a carrack.)
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Exploration, английский
- Поисково-разведочные работы, прр. комплекс региональных буровых и геофизических работ поискового и разведочного бурения
- Поисковое исследование
- The general activity undertaken to identify and classify the elements of which a soil mass is constituted. explosion-proof said of an enclosure that is capable of withstanding an explosion of a specified gas or vapor that may occur within it, and of preventing the ignition of the gas or vapor surrounding it.
- A procedure or surgical operation where the aim is to discover the cause of symptoms or the nature and extent of an illness
- The work involved in looking for mineral deposits and determining their extent by drilling boreholes or by excavations.
- Поисково-разведочные работы (прр). комплекс региональных бу- ровых и геофизических работ поискового и разведочного бурения.
- The search for reservoirs of oil and gas, including aerial and geophysical surveys, geological studies, core testing and drilling of wildcats.
Triangular, английский
Oceangoing, английский
The legal and marine insurance term for any vessel designed and equipped for, and normally engaged in, travel on international waters.
Christopher, английский
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Chop, английский
- Small, steep chaotic waves.
- Чоп (зыбь) - небольшие волны, создаваемые ветром
- Л?гкое волнение, зыбь, рубящий удар волн
- Rough, short, steep waves.
- Толчея, беспорядочное волнение
- A permit or license of departure for merchant ships in the china trade. a chinese word signifying quality. also, an imperial chop or mandate; a proclamation.
- [1] short, steep, irregular waves (see choppy). [2] to signify approval of something by initialing it (from the chinese for a seal denoting authority). [3] usn term for the transfer of a ship or unit from one command to another. [4] slang for food (from west african pidgin-english). chop-chop: asian pidgin-english for “quicklyquickly” (from the chinese k”wai-k”wai = nimblynimbly).
- To break up and drill through boulders or other rock and earthy material encountered in sinking a drivepipe or casing through overburden by impact produced by lifting and dropping a chopping-bit-tipped string of drill rods in a borehole. also to break lost core or other obstruction in a borehole in the manner described above.
- Small, steep, disorderly waves.
- Turbulence type characterized by rapid, rhythmic jolts (pirep » cat or chop to describe the type of turbulence)
Shoal, английский
- Shallow areas of water.
- Or sandbar is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles. bars can appear in the sea, in a lake, or in a river.
- Shallow water that is a hazard to navigation.
- Мель, стая, косяк, выходить на мелкое место,
- Aii area of shallow water.
- Мелкий
- A danger formed by sunken rocks, on which the sea does not break; but generally applied to every place where the water is shallow, whatever be the ground. (see flat shoal, shole, or schole.) also, denotes a great quantity of fishes swimming in company— squamos? cohortes. also, a vessel is said to shoalen, or shoal her water, when she comes from a greater into a less depth.
- [1] an area of shallow water, with substantially less clearance than the surrounding area, forming an offshore hazard to surface navigation. [2] a submerged sandbank or reef visible at low tide. [3] to become shallower [4] a group of swimming fish. (the first three are pronounced shole, from old english sceald = shallow; the fourth is pronounced skool, from middle dutch shele = school.)
- (noun) (a) a relatively shallow place in a stream, lake, sea, or other body of water; a shallows. (b) a natural, subaqueous ridge, bank, or bar consisting of, or covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, rising from the bed of a body of water (e.g. estuarine floor) to near the surface. it may be exposed at low water. compare - reef. sss & gg
- Submerged bar, bank or ridge.
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