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swells
noun
Plural of swell
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Which polymerises to form a dense mesh, and swells up when exposed to water.
Our route, which was fairly typical, took in Norman Island - said to be the inspiration for Treasure Island - Virgin Gorda, and a trip across some bigger Atlantic swells to Anegada and Jost Van Dyke.
Just jumping into the Higgins boats as they reached the top of four- to eight-foot swasls was dangerous.
Your throat swells up".
The Labour leader ventured a joke, charging that the "born-to-rule" swells filling David Cameron's cabinet think that "Downton Abbey" is a fly-on-the-wall documentary, rather than a costume drama.Expect more of this.
Their zirconium cladding swells and distorts as a result of temperature differences and radiation damage.
Normal swells, known technically as gravity waves, are created by wind pushing the surface of the sea up and gravity then pulling it down, causing it to bounce.
It took American politicians a while to explain to voters on Main Street just how they would suffer if the high-fiving swells on Wall Street were allowed to go under.
The new money swells the size of bank reserves in the economy by the quantity of assets purchased hence "quantitative" easing.
By adopting the dollar, it would eliminate the devaluation risk that swells the interest rates which foreign lenders demand.
Class politics makes for bad economics: the state swells, public money gets wasted and entrepreneurs grow nervous.
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