Galveston Bay
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3.8
- proper noun
- /ˈɡælvɪstən beɪ/
:
Bahía de Galveston
- More of the Galveston Bay inshore fishermen reported impacts from the Texas closure than did shrimpers from the fishery in Calcasieu Lake.
- Galveston Bay's inshore shrimp
- shrimp houses in Galveston Bay
Examples
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Survey instruments were administered to 159 shrimp boat captains: 89 from Galveston Bay and 70 from Calcasieu Lake.
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The communities bordering the east side of Galveston Bay are characterized by ethnic uniformity.
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An interview survey was conducted with inshore shrimp boat captains in both Galveston Bay and Calcasieu Lake in the summer of 1987.
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During the spring season, 83 percent of shrimp passing through these shrimp houses were reported to have come from Galveston Bay, compared with 97 percent during the fall season.
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Like the Calcasieu Lake population, most Galveston Bay shrimpers (48 percent) were previously employed in skilled manual labor jobs.
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As in Calcasieu Lake, shrimp houses in Galveston Bay that serviced inshore boats seemed highly dependent on their product from local shrimp harvests.
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Proportionally more captains of the medium-sized boats in Galveston Bay (20 percent) were personally affected by the closure than in Calcasieu Lake (10 percent).
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Nonpoint pollutants, including trash, debris, oil and gasoline residues, and other chemicals, further impair water quality in the bayou and, ultimately, in Galveston Bay.
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The significance of Galveston Bay to the local economy is apparent in that 45 percent of the city of Galveston's economy is derived from waterborne commerce (Galveston Chamber of Commerce, 1987).
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Every summer, my family goes sailing in Galveston Bay to enjoy the beautiful views.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a fully compositional toponym: 'Galveston' names a locality and 'bay' denotes a coastal inlet, so the meaning 'the bay associated with Galveston' is directly derivable from the parts. The pattern X + bay to form place names is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Galveston Bay comes from the Spanish governor Gálvez. English speakers turned Gálvez into Galveston, adding '-ton' like a 'town', and because the bay lies by that town people called the water Galveston Bay, so the name links the bay to that person and place.