Essay on maritime/admiralty terminology
and how it relates to child birth.
The term berth is used to describe a bed on a boat or a location in a port or harbour used specifically for mooring vessels while not at sea (or as a verb to describe bringing a vessel alongside - to berth.
Locations in a Port - Berth is the term used in ports and harbours to define a specfic location where a vessel may be berthed, usually for the purposes of loading and unloading.
The following is a list of berth types that you may find in a large port.
General Berth - used to handle smaller shipments of general cargo. Vessels using these would usually have their own lifting gear, but some ports will provide mobile cranes to do this.
Birth certificate is a legal
document describing details of a person's birth.
Birth is the process in animals by which an offspring is expelled from the body of its mother. Different forms of birth are ovipary, vivipary or ovovivipary.
Vessel can refer to:
- a boat or ship;
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any container except for container ship container; (see this disambiguation page for other meanings of container). Also see Category:Containers for more information.
- a tubular structure in anatomy, such as arteries and veins in the circulatory system of animals, or xylem and phloem tubes comprising the vascular tissue of plants;
A
port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo to and from them.
Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. There are two main types of canals: irrigation canals for the delivery of water and transportation canals for passage of goods and people.
Birth Canal - Female insects and other invertebrates also have a vagina, which is the terminal part of the oviduct.
A container
terminal is a facility where cargo containers are loaded or unloaded from ships to land vehicles, for further transport. Often these vehicles are trains or trucks. These tend to be individual parts of a larger port, and situated near either a river or a harbour.
Container typically refers to:
An item in which things are stored.
Container (cargo), a shipping container, storage for cargo transport.
A
ship is a large, sea-going watercraft.
A
watercraft is a vehicle,
vessel or craft designed to move across (or through) water for pleasure, recreation, physical exercise, commerce, transport of people and goods, and military missions.
Citizen-
ship is membership in a political community (originally a city but now usually a country) and carries with it rights to political participation; a person having such membership is a citizen.
Citizenship, which is explained above, is the political rights of an individual within a society.
Childbirth (also called labour)
In ancient times the status of manual laborers was low, as most physical tasks were done by slaves.
Slavery is the social or de-facto status of specific persons, usually captives or prisoners (or their descendants), who are considered as property or chattel, for the purpose of providing labor and services for the owner or state without the right of the slave to refuse, leave or gain compensation beyond room and board and clothing.
Most slaves, historically, were
born into that status as at least one of their parents was a slave.
Birth Certificate - The certificate is issued shortly after a person's birth, usually after the mother's physician files the required forms with the appropriate government agency. To obtain a birth certificate for a newborn is normally compulsory.
The official birth certificate is usually stored at a
government record office, and certified copies of the original are issued when requested.
A
government is a body that has the authority to make and the power to enforce laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.
In its broadest sense, "to govern" means to administer or supervise, whether over a state, a set group of people, or a collection of assets.
Where births are officially registered, a name entered into a birth certificate may by that fact alone become a
legal name.
Legal name is often the name which an individual is called at birth or which appears on their birth certificate.
In Canada all
port authotities have a federal or Crown charter called
Letters Patent.
Letters patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of an open letter issued by a monarch or government granting an office, a right,
monopoly, title, or status, to someone, or to some entity such as a corporation.
Legal instrument is a legal term that is used for any written legal document such as a
certificate.
A certificate is an official document affirming some fact. For example, a
birth certificate.
In economics, a government-granted
monopoly (also called a "de jure monopoly") is a form of coercive monopoly in a government grants exclusive privilege to a private individual or firm to be the sole provider of a good or service.
Human capital is a way of defining and categorizing peoples' skills and abilities as used in employment and as they otherwise contribute to the economy.
Seaman as a rank refers to the one of the lowest ranks in a navy.
Semen is a whitish, milky fluid, very viscous, containing
water and small amounts of
salt.
Water is a tasteless, odorless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent.
In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge).
Discharge (see) An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that either prohibits or compels ("restrains" or "enjoins") a party from continuing a particular activity.
Charge - In the common law legal system, an indictment is a formal charge of having committed a most serious criminal offence.
Dock - In British English, a dock is an enclosed area of water used for loading, unloading, building or repairing ships.
Dock-et - A brief summary of a document, also called an abstract.
Factors of production are
resources used in the production of goods and services in economics. Classical economics distinguishes between three factors:
Re-source includes -
Labor – human effort used in production which also includes technical and marketing expertise.
Labour - also known as childbirth.
The payment for labor is a wage.
In historical scholarship, a primary source is a
document or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied.
A
document contains information.
Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication,
control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.
A control system is a device or set of devices to manage,
command, direct or regulate the behavior of other devices or systems.
Commander is a military rank used in many
navies but not generally in armies or air forces.
The
navel, also called a bellybutton or umbilicus, is a scar on the abdomen, caused when the umbilical cord is removed from a newborn baby.
In placental mammals, the umbilical cord is a tube that connects a developing embryo or fetus to its placenta. It contains one or two major
vessels.
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