berth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.

   “Tho' vve vvere again got near our harbour by three in the afternoon, yet it ſeemed to require a full hour or more, before vve could come to our former place of anchoring, or birth, as the captain called it.”

2. isim A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.

   “But not only was this the first day that Jack may be said to have appeared in the service, but it was the first day in which he had entered the midshipman's berth, and was made acquainted with his messmates.”

3. isim A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.

   “Passengers their births are clapt in, / Some to grumble, some to spew. / 'Hey day! call you that a cabin? / Why 'tis hardly three feet square; / Not enough to stow Queen Mab in— / Who the deuce can harbour there?'”

4. isim A job or position on a vessel.

   “He was now a temperate man for life, and capable of filling any berth in a ship, and many a high station there is on shore which is held by a meaner man.”

5. isim An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.

   “[W]ith worldly wisdom, the first comer hastens to secure the best birth in the coach for himself, and to make the most convenient arrangement for his baggage before the arrival of his competitor.”

6. isim A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.

   “It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.”

7. isim A place for a vehicle on land to park.
8. isim An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as comfortable or good.

   “He vvas a Surgeon, and they called him Doctor; but he vvas not employed in the Sloop as a Surgeon, but vvas going to Berbadoes to get a Birth, as the Sailors call it.”

9. isim Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.

   “The road was very narrow, with no opportunity of giving the apparent phantom what seamen call a wide birth.”

10. isim A proper place for a thing.

    “[T]he Maſter-builders appoint the VVorking or Converting, as they call it, of every Piece of Timber, and give to the other Head-vvorkmen or Foremen, their Moulds for the ſquaring and cutting out of every Piece, and placing it in its proper Byrth (ſo they call it) in the Ship that is in Building; […]”

11. isim A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
12. isim A position on a field of play.

    “Olivier Giroud then entered the fray and [Theo] Walcott reverted to his more familiar berth on the right wing, quickly creating his side's fifth goal by crossing for Giroud to send a plunging header into the net from close range.”

13. fiil To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).

    “"The Henery," being let loose to drive up the river of herself, did run up as high as the bridge, and broke down some of the rails of the bridge, and so back again with the tide, and up again, and then berthed himself so well as no pilot could ever have done better; […]”

14. fiil To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
15. fiil To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.3 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
16. fiil To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
17. fiil Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
18. fiil Of a person: to occupy a berth.

    “The cabin-boy Ransome […] came in at times from the round-house, where he berthed and served, now nursing a bruised limb in silent agony, now raving against the cruelty of Mr. Shuan.”

19. fiil Chiefly in shipbuilding: to construct (a ship or part of it) using wooden boards or planks; to board, to plank.