Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made or used for ocean voyages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seafaring life.
- Designed or fit for going to sea, as a vessel.
- Seafaring.
- Catadromous, as a fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from
coasting orriver , as applied to vessels.
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- adjective Made for, or used on the high
seas . - adjective In the condition of being fit for sailing on the
high seas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used on the high seas
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seagoing exhibition - descended from two generations of seamen, Leonard Shiel has inherited a great love of 'seagoing'.
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Under those circumstances, the pirates, who have now learned how to operate far out to sea using mother ships such as seagoing trawlers carrying speedboats for attacks, look set for a lot more plunder.
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Under those circumstances, the pirates, who have now learned how to operate far out to sea using mother ships such as seagoing trawlers carrying speedboats for attacks, look set for a lot more plunder.
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"This is a so-called seagoing destroyer; but no one but a fool would buck one into a head sea; and that's what's coming, with a big blow, too.
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He failed to explain, for instance, how Obama, whose seagoing was limited to bodysurfing, managed to mimic at least thirty nautical metaphors—some very sophisticated—used by the former merchant seaman Ayers.
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But the books I can return to with the greatest satisfaction are the Hornblower novels of Forester, the fantastic fiction of Jack Vance -- like the Demon Prince novels, and his Dying Earth books, and the literate seagoing adventure novels of Patrick O'Brian, for example HMS Surprise.
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From there I was in the rigging, getting into the crow's nest, keeping my eye to the lens as I was inches away from the unfurling of a 400 square foot main sail 80 feet above the waterline -- and pointing the glass at the crew as they went about their seagoing tasks.
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Any seagoing civilization has ample resources to lay this myth to rest.
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From there I was in the rigging, getting into the crow's nest, keeping my eye to the lens as I was inches away from the unfurling of a 400 square foot main sail 80 feet above the waterline -- and pointing the glass at the crew as they went about their seagoing tasks.
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Despite the space and logistical limitations of cooking in a galley on a seagoing vessel, cruise lines are increasingly attracting travelers with high-quality food and food-oriented programs.
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