Sentence examples for topside from inspiring English sources

Moored to the ocean floor 1,500 metres below the surface, the $600m structure comprises a 13,600-tonne cylindrical floating "spar" supporting a 9,800-tonne 9,800-tonneon or "topside".

The floor timbers reach the sides, in one piece; the topside frames are knees, standing square to the sides so requiring no beveling; the bottom legs of the knees are secured to the bottom plank.

The mechanic was not hurt and there appeared to be no damage to the car, but Conway lost control and went spinning into Will Power's car, then took off again, turning round backwards before striking the fence topside first.

Serves 6 50g dried porcini mushrooms 2 tbsp olive oil 1kg topside veal 2 onions, peeled and quartered 4 garlic cloves, peeled and bashed with the back of a knife 6 carrots, peeled and cut into lengths 2 celery sticks, chopped into lengths 200ml white wine 2 bay leaves Few thyme sprigs Knob butter Heat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas3.

European nations tried numerous arrangements of guns and armour, such as centreline turrets, a central armoured citadel with large guns on turntables at each corner, lightly armoured big guns topside in barbettes (open-top breastworks), torpedoes in even the largest vessels, and substitution of high speed for armour.

Her hull is a box for carrying men; she can sleep two hundred soldiers belowdecks or can carry five hundred on a short ferrying trip, when men stand both below and topside.

Another time, the topside petty officer was still underneath when the aircraft went full throttle, and it sucked him into the intake.

Owen loved their tiny perfection, the flexible undersides of their shells, the ridges down their topside that he could detect with his thumbnail.

This is from "Gusev," a story about an ill sailor and one of the first post-Siberia stories: He sleeps for two days, and on the third day two sailors come from topside and carry him out of the sick bay.

So now they wait for the topside P.O. to come out and wait for the shooter to say, 'Go to military power,' and then the aircraft goes to full tension".

And in place of rules, use floating "rule molecules" whose undersides encode the state and symbol that trigger a rule, and whose topsides encode the new state and new symbol resulting from it.