Corvette

Definition: Corvette

Corvette

Noun

1. A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "corvette" was first used: 1636. (references)

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.

Crosswords: Corvette

French (corvette).

Blue his house with A blue little window and a blue corvette (Blue (Da Ba Dee); performing artist: Eiffel 65)

Blue like my corvette it's SITTING outside (Blue (Da Ba Dee); performing artist: Eiffel 65)

Corvette Port Arthur (1943)

Little Red Corvette (performing artist: Prince)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chilton's Gm Corvette 1963-82 Repair Manual (reference)

• Corvette Fifty Years (reference)

• Corvette Restoration Guide 1968-1982 (Authentic Restoration Guides) (reference)

• The Corvette Anthology 2003 (reference)

• Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Legend Behind Corvette (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Corvette Fever Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Corvette (reference)

• Corvette Summer (reference)

• The Visual History of Cars, Vol. 3 (Aston Martin, Corvette, BMW, Mustang) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Corvette Summer (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 45. A rheostat controlled bathymeter invented by Emil Stahlberger in 1873. This instrument was designed to measure currents, depth, and take bottom samples. It was used for the first time in the Gulf of Fiume aboard the Austrian corvette MINERVA. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 38. Stahlberger rheobathometer, invented in 1873 by Emil Stahlberger to measure currents, measure depth, and collect deep water samples. It was first used on board the Austrian corvette MINERVA in 1873 in the Gulf of Fiume. The original device was made by Mathias Skull of Fiume, Austria. Several versions of this instrument were tested at various depths. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Wrecked ships in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, during salvage efforts soon after the storm. The view looks about northward, with USS Trenton and the sunken USS Vandalia to the left and the beached German corvette Olga at right. Wreckage just off Trenton's stern may be from the German gunboat Eber, which was destroyed when she struck the harbor reef during the hurricane. Credit: NAVY.

"The Olga beached" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows German corvette Olga beached on the eastern side of Apia Harbor, following the storm. Credit: NAVY.

"Views of the Trenton, Vandalia, Nipsic, & Olga looking from the shore" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows USS Trenton at left, with USS Vandalia sunk along side her. The stern of USS Nipsic is at right, and the German corvette Olga is beached in the distance. Credit: NAVY.

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Albanian

korvetë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏الحراقة سفينة حربية قديمة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

корвет. (various references)

Chinese 

轻武装快舰. (various references)

Czech

korveta. (various references)

Danish

korvet. (various references)

Dutch

korvet. (various references)

Farsi 

رزمناوی که یک ردیف توپ دارد. (various references)

French

corvette. (various references)

German

Korvette (jump to headstand). (various references)

Greek 

κορβέτα, κορβέττα, πλοίο (boat, craft, ship, vessel, water-craft), ταχύ πλοίο. (various references)

Hungarian

korvett. (various references)

Indonesian

kapal perang kecil. (various references)

Italian

corvetta. (various references)

Korean 

경구축함. (various references)

Manx

corvaid. (various references)

Pig Latin

orvettecay

Portuguese

corveta (sloop). (various references)

Romanian

corvetã. (various references)

Russian 

корвет. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stražarski čamac, korveta. (various references)

Spanish

corbeta (sloop). (various references)

Swedish

korvett. (various references)

Turkish

korvet, denizaltılara karşı silahlı savaş gemisi. (various references)

Ukrainian

корвет. (various references)

korver. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "corvette": corvettes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Corvette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cervetti, civette, convette, Convitto, Coretta, Cornette, Corrette, corsette, corvent, Corvidae, Covatta, covete, louvette, Morette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coveter.

-2 letters: corvee, corvet, cotter, covert, revote, tercet, trevet, vector, vetoer.

-3 letters: cover, covet, erect, evert, octet, otter, overt, recto, revet, rotte, terce, torte, toter, trove, voter.

-4 letters: cere, cero, cete, core, cote, cove, ever, over, rete, rote, rove, torc, tore, tort, tote, tree, tret, trot, veer, vert, veto, vote.

-5 letters: cee, cor, cot, ere.

+1 letter: corvettes.

+2 letters: protective.

+3 letters: overprotect, overstretch, retroactive.

+4 letters: controverted, controverter, interconvert, overprotects, protectively, retrodictive, vitrectomies.

+5 letters: concentrative, contraceptive, controverters, counteractive, exteroceptive, interconverts, interoceptive, introspective, overcommitted, overprotected, overstretched, overstretches, retroactively, retrospective.