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  • adjective Carried by ship

Etymologies

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ship +‎ borne

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Examples

  • CTT's perform a variety of specialized duties associated with processing of airborne, shipborne and land-based radar systems and associated signals.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • His Airpower Lesson Number Five held that land-based aviation must be superior to shipborne aviation.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • His Airpower Lesson Number Five held that land-based aviation must be superior to shipborne aviation.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • The freezing of Baltic ports hindered shipborne traffic.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • A navigation system used by military aircraft that provides the user with bearing and distance slant-range to a ground or shipborne station.

    A Nightmare’s Prayer Michael Franzak 2010

  • The JSS project is effectively dead, the frigate mid-life extension project is in serious jeapordy and replacement shipborne helicopter delivery is now a date pulled from the air with no attachment to reality.

    How many ways can you say "Rust-Out"? Dave 2009

  • The Chinese Navy "will very likely monitor the way NATO and especially US warships communicate with each other and with their shipborne helicopters," the Texas-based intelligence company added.

    China's bid to halt Somalian piracy 2009

  • The JSS project is effectively dead, the frigate mid-life extension project is in serious jeapordy and replacement shipborne helicopter delivery is now a date pulled from the air with no attachment to reality.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dave 2009

  • Rat-watchers in Alaska worry that shipborne rodents could stamp out 4 million birds-10 times the number slicked to death in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

    Fear, Fur And Four Feet 2008

  • There was a point in the late 1990s when a rational assessment of the air fleet should have produced a competition to deliver a new shipborne helicopter by 2004.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Dave 2008

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