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Fore or forward: at or toward the front of a ship or further ahead of a location (opposite of "aft") [1] Preposition form is "before", e.g. "the mainmast is before the mizzenmast". Inboard: attached inside the ship. [15] Keel: the bottom structure of a ship's hull. [16] Leeward: side or direction away from the wind (opposite of "windward"). [17]
The Oxford English Dictionary records: "the custom (in the 18th century prevalent in France and sometimes imitated in England) of going away from a reception, etc. without taking leave of the host or hostess. Hence, jocularly, to take French leave is to go away, or do anything, without permission or notice."
At a certain speed the sets of spokes appear to slow and rotate in opposite directions. The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect ) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation.
Suzy Merton is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Martelle Edinborough.She made her first appearance on 30 March 2022. Edinborough had previously appeared in Emmerdale in 2018 and was excited to be cast on the soap again, calling it a dream job.
Windward is upwind from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction from which the wind is coming; leeward is downwind from the point of reference, i.e., along the direction towards which the wind is going. The side of a ship that is towards the leeward is its "lee side".
"When you take away sometimes some of the stuff that gets in the way from how we all connect every day, the self-judgement or whatever it is, it's about the connection and the love that you have ...
But I go back to sort of our kind of three big tenets in this space is, look, first and foremost, has to fit our financial framework, our view of cycle prices going forward.
In many commuter rail and rapid transit services in the United States, the rail directions are related to the location of the city centre. The term inbound is used for the direction leading in toward the city centre and outbound is used for the opposite direction leading out of the city centre.