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Unmoored; Nail one's colors to the mast, to commit completely to a course of action, as striking the colors is no longer an option; Flying the flag; Plain sailing; With flying colors - the colors was the national flag flown at sea during battle, a ship would surrender by lowering the colors and the term is now used to indicate a triumphant ...
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The Marble Boat is the oldest surviving structure in the Presidential Palace complex, which was built when Qianlong visited Jiangning (the former name of Nanjing). To please the emperor, the official told him that the name of the structure was called the "unmoored boat", as the metaphor of the firmness of the Qing dynasty's regime.
1. (ship's boat) A small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the Age of Sail. 2. (full-rigged pinnace) A small "race built" galleon, square-rigged with either two or three masts. 3. In modern usage, any small boat other than a launch or lifeboat associated with a larger vessel. pintle
To save the boat and his family from harm, Sylvester Ploof moored his boat to the dock at Henry Putnam's vacation home on Birch Island. [1] [2] After doing so, Putnam's caretaker, Albert Williams, unmoored the Ploof boat, allowing it to be dashed against the shore, destroying the boat and its contents. [1] The Ploof family was injured, too.
1. A towed or self-propelled flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river, canal or coastal transport of heavy goods. 2. Admiral ' s barge: A boat (or aircraft) at the disposal of an admiral (or other high ranking flag officer) for his or her use as transportation between a larger vessel and the shore, or within a harbor. In Royal Navy service ...
The "Unmoored Boat" at Xu Garden. The Paulownia Melody House (t 桐 音 館, s 桐 音 馆, Tóngyīn Guǎn) is the largest building in the garden, built with paulownia timber. It was used as Zeng Guofan's reception hall in the early 1870s. Several huge Chinese parasol trees are planted around the building, resonating pleasantly when rain falls.
Neurath's boat (or Neurath's ship) is a simile used in anti-foundational accounts of knowledge, especially in the philosophy of science. It was first formulated by Otto Neurath . It is based in part on the Ship of Theseus which, however, is standardly used to illustrate other philosophical questions, to do with problems of identity . [ 1 ]