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Wharf under construction on the Upper Mississippi in Fountain City, Wisconsin [ 1] A wharf ( pl. wharves or wharfs ), quay ( / kiː / kee, also / keɪ, kweɪ / k (w)ay[ 2] ), staith, or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbour or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers. [ 3][ 4] Such a ...
Quai d'Orsay. The Quai d'Orsay ( / ˌkeɪ dɔːrˈseɪ / KAY dor-SAY, French: [ke dɔʁsɛ] ⓘ) is a quay in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is part of the left bank of the Seine opposite the Place de la Concorde. [ 1] It becomes the Quai Anatole-France east of the Palais Bourbon, and the Quai Branly west of the Pont de l'Alma .
List of English homographs. Homographs are words with the same spelling but having more than one meaning. Homographs may be pronounced the same ( homophones ), or they may be pronounced differently ( heteronyms, also known as heterophones). Some homographs are nouns or adjectives when the accent is on the first syllable, and verbs when it is on ...
Cay. Heron Island, Australia. A cay ( / ˈkiː, ˈkeɪ / KEE, KAY ), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low- elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef .
1. (of a vessel) Floating freely (not aground or sunk). The term may also be used more generally of any floating object or person. 2. In service, even if not currently underway, but not stranded, crewless, in repair, or under construction (e.g. "the company has 10 ships afloat").
The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
The word has many purported origins, but there's a few things we know. First, "key" in the Floridian context is an island while a quay is in reference to a wharf. An alternate spelling for "key" is "cay," but neither "key" nor "cay" mean the same thing as "quay," though all three are allegedly derived of a similar root.
An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore. As a verb, mooring refers to the act of attaching a vessel to a mooring. [ 1] The term likely stems from the Dutch verb meren (to moor ), used in English since the end of the 15th century.