Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A combat ship.
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- noun Any
ship built orarmed fornaval combat .
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- noun a government ship that is available for waging war
Etymologies
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Examples
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A U.S. warship is patrolling waters near Somalia to find a Japanese ship that was hijacked by pirates.
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Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum."
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Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum."
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In the past, ships could be held in reserve unmanned to be ready in emergency and further ships could be adapted from merchant vessels; today, the warship is too specialized for it to be effective from merchant ship conversion.
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U.N. representatives joined actors Edward James Olmos, who played the commander of the show's title warship, and Mary McDonnell, who starred as President Laura Roslin, his civilian superior.
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June 8th, 2009 BRUSSELS - NATO is to launch a new, long-term warship fleet dedicated to fighting piracy off Somalia, a senior US diplomat said Monday.
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With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.
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With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.
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Pirates are all over these waters and the warship will be a deterrent to any more pirates coming onboard and most importantly perhaps basic communications between the crews still onboard the Maersk Alabama and the U.S. Navy.
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The warship was a ghost from a bloody past, a death-specter, a haunt.
The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972
yarb commented on the word warship
I worship warships.
May 21, 2008