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Definitions: Admiralty |
AdmiraltyNoun1. The department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain). 2. The office of admiral. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "admiralty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | Any civil or criminal matter having to do with maritime legal issues. (references) |
Shipping | Refers to marine matters such as an Admiralty Court. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Admiralty Board is a division of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence overseeing the affairs of the Royal Navy.
It should not be confused with the Board of Admiralty (officially the Lords Commissioners for Exercising the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, etc.) which it replaced.
See also Admiralty law
The office of Admiral of England, or Lord Admiral and later Lord High Admiral was created in approximately 1400. In 1546 King Henry VIII established the Council of the Marine later to became the Navy Board to oversee administrative affairs of the naval service. Operational control of the Navy remained the responsibility of the Lord High Admiral.
In 1628, Charles I put the office of Lord High Admiral into commission and control of the Royal Navy passed to a committee in the form of the Board of the Admiralty. Control of the Navy was passed to and from the board and the Lord High Admiral a number of times until 1709 when the powers of the Lord High Admiral were finally vested in the Board of Admiralty.
The Board of Admiralty consisted of admirals (known as Sea Lords) and civilian lords, normally politicians. The professional head of the Royal Navy was (and still is) known as the First Sea Lord. The civilian minister and president of the Board was known as the First Lord of the Admiralty.
In 1831 the Navy Board was abolished as a separate entity and its duties and responsibilities were given over to the Board of Admiralty.
In 1964 the Admiralty was subsumed into the Ministry of Defence along with the War Office and the Air Ministry. Within the expanded Ministry of Defence are a new Admiralty Board, Army Board and Air Force Board, each headed by the Secretary of State for Defence. (The new Admiralty Board was to have been called the Navy Board but for an amendment in the House of Lords).
The title of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom is now vested in the Sovereign. However, there continues to be appointed a Vice-Admiral and a Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom.
History
Lords High Admiral, 1413-1628
Lords High Admiral and First Lords of the Admiralty, 1628-1709
First Lords of the Admiralty, 1709-1964
Admirals of the Fleet, 1795-1827
First Sea Lords, 1828-Present
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Admiralty."
Synonym: AdmiraltySynonym: Maritime law. (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: admiralties (military & defense). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral, port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, ensign, skipper, mate, master, officer of the day, OD; navarch. |
Tribunal | Assize, eyre; wardmote, burghmote; barmote; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer, court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet, court-baron, court of pie poudre, court of common council; board of green cloth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Admiralty |
| English words defined with "admiralty": Admiralties, Admiralty brass, Admiralty Island, Admiralty Islands, admiralty law, Admiralty Metal, Admiralty mile, Admiralty Range ♦ Coast guard, Court of delegates ♦ Droits of the Admiralty ♦ Instance Court ♦ Libelant ♦ naval brass ♦ Tobin bronze ♦ Vice admiral, Vice admiralty, Vice-admiralty court. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "admiralty": acting marshall in admiralty, Admiralty Court ♦ Black Book of the Admiralty ♦ Cabinet Ministers, Cry Havock! ♦ divided damages ♦ Exchequer Courts Reports ♦ Honour and Glory Griffiths ♦ LAWYER, ADMIRALTY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "admiralty": Libelant. (references) |
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 | Chart of northwest coast of United States, Gray's Harbor to Admiralty Inlet From reconnaissance survey of Lt. Cmdg. James Alden, 1853.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tlingit Indian village - Angoon - on the west coast of Admiralty Island. 57.5 North Latitude, 134.6 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | An elephant seal at Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The old base camp G at Admiralty Bay, King George Island.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | An icy beach in Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands, a glacier front to right. 62 10 S Latitude 58 25 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | "Mount Rainier from the south Part of Admiralty Inlet." Mount Rainier was named "after my friend Rear Admiral Rainier." In: "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World" by Captain George Vancouver. Volume I, Plate III, page 268. Library Call Number G420 .V22 1798.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Figure 22. Driver depth sounding device. This sounder was used by the British Admiralty and was very simple to maintain and use. Little is known of its history; it is first listed in a catalog of instruments in 1896.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor, Admiralty Islands, on 25 March 1944.Credit: NAVY. |
 | With a sister ship in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, on 1 April 1944.Credit: NAVY. |  | View of part of Whitehall, shewing the Admiralty Office, with the new gateway, designed & executed in the year 1760, & also a part of the Horse Guards, &c. / D. Cunego, sculpsit.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State; (See Note 10)--between Citizens of different States, --between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The term "harbours, shall include the north-east mole, the west wall, the outer and inner breakwaters, and reclaimed land within them, and all naval and military works, fortifications, and buildings, constructed or under construction, between lines connecting the following positions taken from the British Admiralty chart No.126 of April 19, 1918: (a) lat. 54 10' 49" N.; long. 7 53' 39" E.; (b) 54 10' 35" N.; 7 54' 18" E.; (c) 54 10' 14" N.; 7 54' 00" E.; (d) 54 10' 17" N.; 7 53' 37" E.; (e) 54 10' 44" N.; 7 53' 26" E. (reference) |
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Economic History | Nigeria | In addition, the federal high court has jurisdiction over revenue matters, admiralty law, banking, foreign exchange, other currency and monetary or fiscal matters, and suits to which the federal government or any of its agencies is party. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Admiralty" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 97.65% of the time. "Admiralty" is used about 298 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 (common) | 97.65% | 291 | 17,055 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.35% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 298 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Admiralty Bancorp, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "admiralty": acting marshall in admiralty ♦ admiralty brass ♦ admiralty court ♦ admiralty Island ♦ admiralty Islands ♦ admiralty law ♦ admiralty Metal ♦ admiralty mile ♦ admiralty Range ♦ Black Book of the Admiralty ♦ board of admiralty ♦ Droits of the Admiralty ♦ first lord of the admiralty ♦ lords commissioners of admiralty ♦ vice admiralty. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "admiralty": admiralty-issue. | |
Ending with "admiralty": vice-admiralty. | |
Containing "admiralty": Vice-admiralty court. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "admiralty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | admiraliat, ministri e forcave detare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إمارة البحر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | министерство на флотата, адмиралтейство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 海军部. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | admiralita, ministerstvo námořnictví. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | AM (Adm., Admiral, air-mass, amplitude modulation, Armenia, Republic of Armenia, thickness of atmosphere), admiral (Adm., admiral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Admiraal,Admiraliteit (Adm., Admiral), Adm. (Adm., Admiral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | meriministeriö (Navy Department). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amirauté. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | admiralsamt, Admiralitaet (Adm., Admiral), admiralität (admirality, admirals), Admiral (Adm., admiral), Adm. (Adm., Admiral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ναυαρχείο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | admiralitás, tengernagyi hivatal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jabatan laksamana. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ammiragliato (Adm., Admiral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 해군성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ard-marraght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | admiraltyay almirantado (admiralship), ministério da marinha, domínio dos mares. (various references) amiralitate (navy), ministrul marinei. (various references) адмиралтейство. (various references) admiralitet, ministarstvo ratne mornarice. (various references) almirantazgo. (various references) amiralitet. (various references) amirallik, amiraller, deniz kuvvetleri komutanlığı. (various references) війсково-морське міністерство, адміральське звання, адміралтейство (navy). (various references) morlys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Admiralty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: admirality, Almirante. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "admiralty" (pronounced a"dmerultē) |
| 5 | -er u l t ē | mayoralty. |
| 4 | -u l t ē | casualty, disloyalty, faculty, fealty, loyalty, novelty, penalty, realty, royalty, specialty, subtlety. |
| 3 | -l t ē | cruelty, difficulty, faulty, frailty, guilty, kilty, salty. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-m-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: admiral, marital, martial, matilda, tardily. | |
-3 letters: amrita, aramid, aridly, artily, atrial, datary, daylit, lariat, latria, malady, milady, mitral, myriad, radial, ramtil, tamari, trimly. | |
-4 letters: admit, adyta, alarm, alary, aliya, altar, amity, artal, atria, daily, dairy, damar, diary, dimly, dirty, drail, drama, drily, laari, laird, laity, lamia, lardy, liard, lidar, lyard, lyart, madly, malar, malty, maria, marly, milty, ratal, riata, riyal, talar, tamal, tardy, tiara, tidal, trail, triad, trial, tryma, yaird. | |
-5 letters: adit, airt, airy, alar, alit, alma, amia, amid, amir, amyl, aria, arid, aril, army, arty, aryl, atma, dart, data, dial, dirl, dirt, dita, dram, drat, dray, idly, idyl, lady, laid, lair, lama, lard, lari, lati, liar, lima, limy, lira, maar, maid, mail, mair, malt, marl, mart, maya, mild, milt, miry, mity, raia, raid, rail, rami, raya, rial, rimy, tail, tala, tali, tidy, tirl, trad, tram, tray, trim, yald, yard, yird. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-m-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: maladroitly, mandatorily. | |
+3 letters: admirability, dramatically. | |
+4 letters: adumbratively, diametrically, intradermally. | |
+5 letters: antidromically, democratically, extrapyramidal, undramatically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6D 69 72 61 6C 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. -- .. .-. .- .-.. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101101 01101001 01110010 01100001 01101100 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d m i r a l t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006D 0069 0072 0061 006C 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357079758467788691 |
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