humber in English

noun
1
an estuary in northeastern England that is formed at the junction of the Ouse and Trent rivers near Goole and that flows east for 38 miles (60 km) to enter the North Sea at Spurn Head. It has the major port of Hull on its northern bank and is spanned by the world's largest suspension bridge, which opened in 1981 and has a span of 4,626 feet (1,410 m).

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1. Humber Presents Faculty Spotlight: Bandleader Panel

2. 4 Mr Humber died intestate and the plates therefore returned to the family.

3. The ship eventually withdrew to the Humber, where she undertook 3 months of repairs.

4. But today Humber Coastguards said the canoeist and his craft were still missing and hopes were fading.

5. From there, any seaman or merchant could have carried the announcement down-stream across the Humber on the ferry.

6. After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself.

7. The lighthouse and cottages are still lived in and command extensive views of Hull waterfront and the Humber Bridge.

8. Two workers were slightly hurt in a huge explosion and fire at the Conoco oil refinery at Immingham on the Humber estuary.

9. The Humber River floodplain at Toronto is underlain by a 2.5 km long wedge of alluvium that thins upstream from Lake Ontario.

10. Humber Zone mélanges are spatially associated with Taconian nappes and believed to be of tectonic origin. Dunnage Zone mélanges are interpreted as relicts of an Ordovician accretionary prism.

11. All-steel bodies are well represented by the display of three production models: Hillman Wizard 65 saloon, Austin light twelve-six Harley saloon, 12 hp 4-cylinder Humber.

12. This paper presents evidence for an early Taconian, west-directed fault in northern Vermont, the Prospect Rock thrust, which represents the trace of the contact between the Taconian oceanic accretionary prism (Dunnage Zone) and less allochthonous, continental margin rocks (Humber Zone).

13. “Catch is really progressive and I think your vision is stretching, ambitious, and very forward thinking with a real focus on what is important for the future for Catch, the Humber, and the wider UK, continually breaking new ground and bringing new opportunities

14. Rocks in these slices may be of similar age, but those in the Green Mountain slice were originally deposited as more proximal sediments and remained on the Humber side of the sub duction zone, whereas those in the Prospect Rock slice were transferred by underplating to the accretionary prism.