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Definition: Cruiser |
CruiserNoun1. A car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters. 2. A large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer. 3. A large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cruiser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Occupations | Cruises forest land to estimate volume of marketable timber and collect data concerning forest conditions for appraisal, sales, administration, logging, land use, and forest management planning: Traverses forest area on foot in established pattern and applies sampling technique. Sights over scale stick to estimate height and diameter of each tree in sample. Estimates loss of marketable volume due to defects, such as rot and bends in tree, and computes quantity of usable wood in each tree. Logs cruise data and prepares summary report of timber types, sizes, condition, and outstanding features of area, such as existing roads, streams, lakes, and communication facilities. May mark trees with spray paint to denote trail, boundary, or for cutting. May be designated Chief Cruiser (forestry) when leading a crew. (references) |
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In military terminology, a cruiser is a large warship capable of engaging multiple targets simultaneously.
Modern United States Navy guided missile cruisers (CG and CGN hull classification symbols) perform primarily in a Battle Force role. These ships are multi-mission -- anti-aircraft (AAW), anti-submarine (ASW), and anti-surface (ASUW) surface combatants capable of supporting carrier battle groups, amphibious forces, or of operating independently and as flagships of surface action groups.
Technological advances in surface-to-air missiles coupled with the Aegis combat system have increased cruisers' AAW capability, while Tomahawk missiles give them long-range strike mission capability. These weapon systems have restored an offensive strike role to the surface forces that seemed to have been lost to air power at the battle of Pearl Harbor.
All cruisers currently in commission in the US Navy are members of the Ticonderoga class.
Historical subtypes include armored cruiser, protected cruiser, auxiliary cruiser, heavy cruiser, and light cruiser. The battlecruiser could be considered a sort of hybrid between cruiser and battleship.
The term "cruiser" was a mid 19th century invention. When warships were made of wood and had sails, frigates were small, fast, long range, lightly armed (single gun-deck) ships used for scouting and carrying dispatches. The first ironclads also had only a single gun-deck because of the weight of armor, even though they were bigger ships with bigger guns. They were nevertheless referred to as frigates although they were really ships of the line. Thus the definition of a frigate changed.
Ships which carried out the original frigate role were now renamed "cruising ships", which was rapidly abbreviated to cruiser. This continued to be the meaning until after the Second World War - a fast, long-range, lightly armored ship, although by then more powerful than a destroyer.
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Aurora in St. Petersburg
Career Laid down: 1896 Launched: 24 May 1900 Commissioned: 29 July 1903 Fate: museum ship Decommissioned: 1945 ? General Characteristics Displacement: 6731 tons Length: 126.8 m (- ft) Beam: 16.8 m (- ft) Draft: 7.3 m (- ft) Speed: 19 knots Complement: 570 - 720 Armament: 1903: eight 152 mm (6in) guns, 24 x 75 mm guns, 8 x 37 mm guns, 3 torpedo launchers
1917: fourteen 152 mm guns, 4 x 76 mm AA guns, MG's, 3 torpedo launchersThe Aurora (correctly: Avrora - in Russian language: Аврора) is a Russian protected cruiser, currently preserved as a museum ship in St. Petersburg. She became a symbol of the communist revolution in Russia.
She was one of three Diana-class cruisers, built in St. Petersburg for a service in the Far East (on the Pacific). All the ships served during the Russo-Japanese War (the other two ships of the class, Diana and Pallada, were sunk by the Japanese in Port Arthur in 1904).
Aurora was included into the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron, which was sent from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific, under the command of Admiral Rozhestvenski. On 27 and 28 May 1905, Aurora took part in the battle of Tsushima, along with the rest of the Russian squadron. Aurora manged to avoid being destroyed like the majority of the Russian vessels, and along with two other cruisers broke through to a neutral Manilla, where she was interned.
In 1906 Aurora returned to the Baltic and became a cadet training ship. Then, she served in the First World War. In 1915 her armament was changed to fourteen 152 mm (6in) guns. In the end of 1916, the ship was moved to Sankt Petersburg (then: Petrogrod) for a major repair. The city was full of revolutionary ferment by then. A part of her crew joined the bourgeois 1917 February Revolution. A revolutionary committee was created on the ship. Great part of the crew joined bolsheviks, who were preparing for the communist revolution.
On 7 November 1917, at 9.40pm, a shoot from Aurora gun became a signal to start an attack on Winter Palace, that was the first episode of the communist Russian Revolution.
In 1922 Aurora was brought to service again as a training ship. During the world war II, the guns were taken from the ship and used for land defence of Leningrad. On 30 September 1941 she was damaged and sunk in harbour.
After repair in 1945-1947, Aurora was made the museum ship, anchoring on the Neva in Leningrad (currently: St. Petersburg). In 1984-87, the ship was reconstructed (part of her construction was replaced by the new one).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Russian cruiser Aurora."
Synonyms: CruiserSynonyms: cabin cruiser (n), patrol car (n), pleasure boat (n), pleasure craft (n), police car (n), prowl car (n), squad car (n). (additional references) |
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Combatant | Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. |
Ship | Ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. |
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Crosswords: Cruiser |
| English words defined with "cruiser": battle cruiser ♦ frigate ♦ guided missile cruiser. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cruiser": timber cruiser. (references) |
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Screenplays | Star Cruiser Crash Crash (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor; writing credit: George Lucas; Jim Wheat) I was a promising cruiser weight (Halifax f.p: Swimming with Sharks; writing credit: Robyn Sinclair; Keith Thompson) I was just showing Caroline the backseat of my Vista Cruiser. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Tongue Twisters | The U.S. twin-screw cruiser. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh' (1899) Admiral Dewey Taking Leave of Washington Committee on the U.S. Cruiser 'Olympia' (1899) Crew of the U.S. Cruiser 'Raleigh' (1899) Cruiser 'Raleigh' (1899) | |
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 | "Danish Cruiser Valkyrien in St. Thomas Harbor". In: "The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands", by Theodoor De Booy and John T. Faris, 1918. J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia. P. 31. Library Call Number C/hc100 V81 B. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) bound for Hampton Roads, after leaving the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on board, 14 November 1910. Ely took his plane off from Birmingham later that afternoon. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Eugene B. Ely flies his Curtiss pusher airplane from USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), in Hampton Roads, Virginia, during the afternoon of 14 November 1910. USS Roe (Destroyer # 24), serving as plane guard, is visible in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | At dawn the chink-running cruiser dumped her cargo on a mournful Florida lagoon--. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | First photograph of the Battle of Midway - June 1942--A Japanese heavy cruiser of the Mogami class after having been bombed by U.S. carrier-based naval aircraft. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rescue workers aboard a cruiser directing streams of water at the light carrier U.S.S. "Princeton," hit by Japanese bombs during the battle of Leyte gulf, in Oct. 1944, and later sunk. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Drake, British cruiser. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Inflexible, British cruiser. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | This is the Dutch cruiser "de Ruyter," firing a salvo while on manuvers from its base at Sourabaya, on the island of Java, Netherlands East Indies. The bulk of the Dutch Navy is again in the battle for democracy, basing its operations at this strongly for. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Buffalo, New York. Bystanders at a parade held to raise money for the cruiser Buffalo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cruiser Bike 3" by Chris Sharp Commentary: "Another shot of the entire bike. Sexy huh?." |
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Business | Nissan followed with the Almera Tino, to take advantage of the trend and Citroen and even Chrysler have introduced compact vans, notably the Picasso and the Cruiser. (references) | |
Economic History | Japan | Boeing, on the other hand, is proposing joint production of its Sonic Cruiser, a medium-sized ultrafast jet. (references) |
Austria | In addition to the PT cruiser, two Saab models are due to begin production in 2001. Whereas the year 2000 saw 160,000 new cars leave Austrian assembly plants, we estimate that Austria will be producing around 200,000 cars annually by 2003. (references) | |
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| "Cruiser" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.63% of the time. "Cruiser" is used about 169 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.63% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.37% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 169 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cruiser": armored cruiser ♦ armoured cruiser ♦ battle cruiser ♦ cabin cruiser ♦ cruiser weight ♦ guided missile cruiser ♦ ocean cruiser ♦ protected cruiser. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cruiser": cruiser-racer, cruiser-racers, cruiser-shaped. | |
Ending with "cruiser": battle-cruiser, motor-cruiser. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pt cruiser | 2,780 | toyota land cruiser fj40 | 87 |
toyota land cruiser | 927 | land cruiser part | 85 |
land cruiser | 677 | southern cruiser | 80 |
pt cruiser accessory | 433 | beach bike cruiser | 69 |
cruiser | 414 | fj40 land cruiser | 68 |
chrysler pt cruiser | 280 | baha boat cruiser dealer | 67 |
pt cruiser part | 209 | custom cruiser | 66 |
beach cruiser | 204 | pt cruiser club | 66 |
cruiser bicycle | 188 | toyota land cruiser for sale | 58 |
motorcycle cruiser | 165 | cruiser customizing | 57 |
cruiser yacht | 154 | cruiser inc | 57 |
cruiser bike | 119 | custom pt cruiser | 56 |
cabin cruiser | 115 | craigs cruiser | 56 |
metric cruiser | 112 | land cruiser for sale | 55 |
eddie and the cruiser | 112 | used toyota land cruiser | 53 |
toyota land cruiser part | 106 | cool cruiser of texas | 51 |
convertible pt cruiser | 105 | p t cruiser | 51 |
beach bicycle cruiser | 99 | shadow cruiser | 49 |
cruiser boat | 96 | buy a pt cruiser | 45 |
baha cruiser boat | 95 | used pt cruiser | 44 |
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| Language | Translations for "cruiser"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | udhëtar (fare, passenger, peregrinator, pilgrim, roadster, traveler, traveller, viator, voyager, wayfarer), mjet lëvizës, makinë policie (patrol car), kryqëzor, anije e madhe udhëtarësh. (various references) | |
Arabic | سفينة حربية (battleship, monitor, warship), طراد, المطوفة سفينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крайцер. (various references) | |
Chinese | 巡洋舰. (various references) | |
Czech | výletní loï, křižník. (various references) | |
Danish | slagkrydser (battle cruiser). (various references) | |
Dutch | slagkruiser (battle cruiser). (various references) | |
Farsi | کشتی یاتاکسی یاکسی که گشت میزند, رزمناو. (various references) | |
Finnish | risteilijä. (various references) | |
French | croiseur (battle cruiser). (various references) | |
German | Kreuzer (cruisers, Kreutzer). (various references) | |
Greek | καταδροικό, καταδρομικό, θαλαμηγόσ (cabin cruiser, yacht). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אנית סיור. (various references) | |
Hungarian | cirkáló (cruising). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mobil polisi (policevan), kapal penjelajah. (various references) | |
Italian | incrociatore, imbarcazione da crociera. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 巡航船 , 巡洋艦 , クリプトコッカス症 (chloroform, Chloromycetin, claim, claimant, claimer, clay, clay court, clay pigeon, climograph, clinch, crane, crater, crazy, creatinine clearance, crepe, crepe shirt, crew, crimson, cross sign, crouton, cruise, cruising, cryptococcosis, customer complaint, Krugerrand, krypton, Kurd, Kurdish). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | クルーザー , じゅんこうせん, じゅんようかん. (various references) | |
Korean | 함 (Doing). (various references) | |
Manx | coorseyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uisercray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cruzador. (various references) | |
Romanian | crucişãtor (battleship). (various references) | |
Russian | крейсер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krstarica. (various references) | |
Spanish | crucero (battle cruiser, cruise, junction, ocean cruiser, transept), viajador. (various references) | |
Swedish | kryssare. (various references) | |
Turkish | kruvazör, kamaralı büyük tekne (cabin cruiser), hızlı savaş gemisi. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kreяser (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | крейсер, мандрівник по морю. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tàu tuần dương. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwiblong. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cruiser": cruisers, cruiserweight, cruiserweights. (additional references) | |
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"Cruiser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Causier, Creider, Creoser, Croesor, croiser, cruase, Cruice, cruis, cruisie, cruisoe, cruisy, crusia, Kreisler, Kruitsberg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cruiser" (pronounced kruw"zer) |
| 5 | k r uw" z er | kreuzer. |
| 3 | -uw" z er | abuser, accuser, boozer, loser, user. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: curries. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cirrus, criers, cruise, curers, curies, currie, curser, recurs, ricers. | |
-2 letters: cires, crier, cries, cruse, curer, cures, curie, currs, curse, ecrus, recur, ricer, rices, riser, ruers, sieur, sucre, surer, ureic. | |
-3 letters: cire, cris, crus, cues, cure, curr, curs, ecru, ecus, errs, ices, ires, recs, reis, rice, rise, ruer, rues, ruse, sice, sire, suer, sure. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: couriers, cruisers, crustier, curriers, recruits, reincurs, scurfier, scurried, scurries, scurrile, scurvier, sprucier. | |
+2 letters: acquirers, carburise, coinsurer, courtiers, croupiers, crucifers, cruzeiros, curarines, curarizes, curiouser, curricles, mercuries, recursion, recursive, scripture, scrubbier, scruffier, stricture, superrich, turmerics. | |
+3 letters: carburised, carburises, carburizes, coinsurers, couturiers, criteriums, cuirassier, currencies, currieries, curtailers, discourser, hurricanes, mercurials, micrurgies, precarious, pruriences, reacquires, recruiters, recursions, resecuring, ridiculers, rubricates, scirrhuses, scriptures, scroungier, scrutineer, strictures, subscriber, supermicro, versicular. | |
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