How do you use Slipway in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like ways or shipway, plus the exact meaning.
Slipway meaning
- A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched.
- A slip road.
Synonyms of Slipway
Using Slipway
- The main meaning on this page is: A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched. | A slip road.
- Useful related words include: ways, shipway, structure, construction.
- In the example corpus, slipway often appears in combinations such as: the slipway, slipway in, and slipway.
Context around Slipway
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Slipway
- In this selection, "slipway" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, trefor, watchouse, facility, using, show and isn stand out and add context to how "slipway" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a transhipment slipway with associated and and a slipway that makes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "slipway" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with slipway
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Right, Watchouse Slipway in Edwardian times. (6 words)
Quidi Vidi's slipway is closed for repairs. (8 words)
Bongoyo Island can be reached by boat from the Msasani Slipway. (11 words)
By 1925, with the advent of the stern slipway in factory ships and the use of steam-driven whale catchers, the catch of blue whales, and baleen whales as a whole, in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic began to increase dramatically. (41 words)
The company, in association with the Troon Tug Co Ltd, want to build a transhipment slipway, with associated timber stacking yard and a temporary timber pier at Imachar to enable timber export by boat to the mainland. (37 words)
The float-off process is a more modern, efficient and low risk way for a ship to enter the water, compared to the previous dynamic launches where ships were slid down a slipway into the water. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Mid and West Wales Fire Service rescued both people, helping them out of the car and back up to the slipway using a seven-metre ladder.
Other beaches in the county have also been barriered to stop illegal car parking such as Traeth Trefor slipway.
Right, Watchouse Slipway in Edwardian times.
The estate’s on-site facilities provide boat storage, a tractor, and a slipway that makes launching boats quick and effortless for guests.
The traditional stone harbour has “immaculate” stone-built harbour walls forming a simple basin as well as a slipway from which boats may be launched.
The Tuncurry boat maintenance facility (slipway) has been in operation in various forms since the establishment of Tuncurry in 1875.
Volunteers will meet at the pier slipway on Saturday, April 29 for the beach clean, taking place between 10am-12noon.
A large safety zone of 300m was set up around the route from St Michael Avenue to the Torpoint Ferry slipway.
And when the yard launched the Salmaid, a salvage vessel for the Ministry of Defence, the children had a slipway show of the naming ceremony as guests of the shipbuilders.
Quidi Vidi's slipway is closed for repairs.
The DA also requested permission for landscaping and site preparation works including the partial demolition of the existing slipway and significant earthworks.
The float-off process is a more modern, efficient and low risk way for a ship to enter the water, compared to the previous dynamic launches where ships were slid down a slipway into the water.
The hovercraft crew advised them of the safest route back to the shore and escorted them to the steps in the sea wall near Dovepoint Slipway, where they were met by HM Coastguard officers.
The company, in association with the Troon Tug Co Ltd, want to build a transhipment slipway, with associated timber stacking yard and a temporary timber pier at Imachar to enable timber export by boat to the mainland.
The QHM spokesman also reiterated that the slipway ‘isn’t the best place’ to park and stressed the environmental risk of oil and fuel getting into the water.
Civil engineers McLaughlin and Harvey of Belfast and Glasgow are civil engineers for the work taking place at the Port Beag slipway, owned by Argyll and Bute Council, alongside the Oban lifeboat station.
The new office is located on Chole Road, Masaki (junction Chole Road / Slipway Road) and will be open for the public as of today, April 17th, 2018.
Bongoyo Island can be reached by boat from the Msasani Slipway.
By 1925, with the advent of the stern slipway in factory ships and the use of steam-driven whale catchers, the catch of blue whales, and baleen whales as a whole, in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic began to increase dramatically.
Charles and his brother Henry were directors of the Wallsend Slipway Company, a repair yard established by Mitchell in 1871.
Common combinations with slipway
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the slipway 2×
- slipway in 2×
- and slipway 2×
- slipway on 2×