Marine Corps

Definition: Marine Corps

Marine Corps

Noun

1. An amphibious division of the United States Navy.

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

Synonym: Marine Corps

Crosswords: Marine Corps

I have two books at my bedside, Lieutenant: the Marine Corps Code of Conduct and the King James Bible. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

No, sir! United States Marine Corps, sir! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

God was here before the Marine corps, so you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the corps! (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick)

Marine Corps Combat Leadership Skills (1982)

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

Books

• Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor Winners (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Marine Corps Gazette (reference)

• Marine Corps Times (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Evening Parade: Special Marine Corps Bicentennial Edition (reference)

• U.S. Marine Corps Battle Color Cermony (reference)

• Marine Corps Marksmanship (reference)

• Force Recon: Inside U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance (reference)

• Semper Fit: The Marine Corps Workout (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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FAIRWEATHER moored at Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe Bay. During Hurricane Iwa. Power knocked out to Marine Corps Base. FAIRWEATHER cooked Thanksgiving turkeys for Marine Corps families.Credit: America's Coastlines.

Marine Corps officials temporarily halted flying operations of all models of the V-22, including two CV-22s, (shown here) which are being flight tested at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The officials made the move after a Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed in No.

U.S. Marines advance after Marine close-air fighters plaster targets ahead during fighting in Korea. Billowing smoke and flames from the small, tight target areas bear out the accuracy of the flying Leathernecks' marksmanship. (Marine Corps photo).

President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape recording from his son-in-law Capt. Charles Robb, who was a Marine Corps company commander in Vietnam. By Jack Kightlinger, Washington, DC, July 31, 1968.Credit: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, National Archives and Records Administration.

A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard receives Captain Siemens, Commanding Officer of the visiting German light cruiser Karlsruhe, 7 May 1936.Credit: NAVY.

Photographed circa the 1880s or 1890s. As a U.S. Marine Corps Corporal, he served in USS Kearsarge during the Civil War, reportedly firing the first and last guns during her engagement with CSS Alabama on 19 June 1864.Credit: NAVY.

The Marines land--Marines hit three feet of water as they leave their LST to take the beach at Cape Gloucester / Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps).Credit: Library of Congress.

Crew members of a Marine torpedo bomber squadron lugging their own bags across the Okinawa airstrip as they arrive to start operations against the enemy] / Official U.S. Marine Corps p.Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Corporal William Beall..

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps. Closeup of woman worker applying rubberized fabric attachements to inflation valve equipment. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.

Athens, Ohio. USMC (United States Marine Corps) recruiting office.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

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In 2000, the Armed Forces enlisted 87,500 individuals in four service branches--the Army, Navy (including the Marine Corps), Air Force, and the Armed Forces of Cooperation (FAC), commonly known as the National Guard. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "Marine Corps": Marine Corps Log ♦ us Marine Corps. Additional references.

Dutch

Korps Mariniers (Royal Netherlands Marine Corps), Commandant v. h. korps mariniers (Commandant Royal Netherlands Marine Corps). (various references)

French

Corps des fusiliers marins (Royal Netherlands Marine Corps). (various references)

German

Marinekorps (Royal Netherlands Marine Corps). (various references)

Greek 

σώμα πεζοναυτών. (various references)

Hungarian

tengerészgyalogság (marines, naval infantry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

海兵隊 (Royal Marines). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいへいたい (Royal Marines). (various references)

Pig Latin

arinemay orpscay

Misspellings

"Marine Corps" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: marine corp. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: proseminar.

-2 letters: campesino, caponiers, companies, comparers, copremias, procaines, proscenia, romancers.

-3 letters: apocrine, armoires, armories, campions, canopies, caponier, capsomer, carmines, carrions, comparer, compares, comprise, conspire, copremia, corpsman, corpsmen, crampons, cremains, crimpers, incomers, incorpse, manropes, mariners, meropias, mesocarp, minorcas, moraines, parecism, parsonic, pemicans, perisarc, prancers, primeros, primrose, prisoner, procaine, promines, promiser, rampions, ransomer, resorcin, romaines.

+2 letters: intercompares, superromantic.

+3 letters: contemporaries.

+4 letters: chlorpromazines, intercomparison, mercaptopurines.

+5 letters: anthropocentrism, cinematographers, intercomparisons, malpractitioners, megacorporations, microsporangiate, semipornographic, superromanticism.

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