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Definition: Warship |
WarshipNoun1. A government ship that is available for waging war. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "warship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
Synonyms: WarshipSynonyms: combat ship (n), war vessel (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Warship |
| English words defined with "warship": aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier ♦ battleship, battlewagon, broadside ♦ capital ship, carrier, catapult, conning tower, corvette, cruiser ♦ decommission, destroyer, destroyer escort ♦ frigate, Fulton ♦ guard ship, guided missile destroyer, gun room ♦ launcher ♦ magazine, man-of-war ♦ naval gun, naval missile ♦ pigboat, powder magazine, powder monkey, powder store, privateer ♦ Robert Fulton ♦ ship of the line, sick list, sloop of war, sub, submarine, submersible, submersible warship, surface ship ♦ three-decker, torpedo boat, trireme ♦ U-boat ♦ wardroom. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "warship": administrative escort ♦ HAMED. (references) |
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Screenplays | That is such a warship thing to say. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Warship (1972) German Warship at Spithead (1897) | |
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 | Oil painting, probably depicting her arrival in the Bahamas in 1862. She had been purchased secretly in England and sent to the Bahamas for fitting out as a warship. This may explain the absence of visible armament on the ship.Credit: NAVY. |  | Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1963, prepared for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume III. Originally built in 1851, Calhoun was a Confederate warship in 1861-62 and became the the U.S. Army steamer General Sedgewick in 1864.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Trails a Soviet Navy "Kresta" class guided missile ship in the Sea of Japan, April 1970. The Soviet warship was then participating in the World-wide naval exercise "Okean". Note Coontz' ASROC launcher and 5"/54 Mk. 42 gun mount.Credit: NAVY. |  | Underway during exercises in 1940, with her forward gun turrets trained out to port, as seen from another Japanese warship.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Steaming at high speed, circa 1916-17, as seen from the high-angle gun platform of another British warship. Gun is probably a three-inch type. Note that Renown still has her original searchlight installation, which was replaced later in 1917.Credit: NAVY. |  | Painting by Tomaso DeSimone, depicting the ship at Villefranche, France, in 1878, while she was flagship of the European Squadron. A French warship is in the right background.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Eugene Ely landing a plane for the first time in history on the deck of a warship, the USS Pennsylvania, Dec. 1910.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Crimean Conference. Admiral Hewitt, President Roosevelt, and Admiral Stark aboard a warship. Malta. / Signal Corps photo.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Building a warship, Cramp's [i.e. William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company] shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. Army transport warship, Burnside.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Azerbaijan | The delimitation of the Caspian seabed and resources remains a contentious issue that could affect development of the region's considerable energy resources, as seen in a July 2001 incident when an Iranian warship forced a British Petroleum (BP) exploration ship from disputed waters. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Warship" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.13% of the time. "Warship" is used about 107 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) | 98.13% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "warship": belly warship ♦ submersible warship. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "warship": warship-building. | |
| 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 |
warship | 520 | international warship | 5 |
warship model | 51 | klingon warship | 5 |
gunner naval ops warship | 45 | radio controlled warship | 4 |
gunner warship | 17 | classic warship | 4 |
navy warship | 15 | 1 warship | 4 |
us warship | 12 | warship design | 4 |
rc warship | 12 | gunner naval ops review warship | 4 |
2 war warship world | 11 | combat rc warship | 4 |
navy us warship | 11 | russian warship | 4 |
warship of the world | 10 | sale warship | 4 |
naval warship | 9 | janes warship | 3 |
british warship | 9 | space warship | 3 |
model plastic warship | 9 | combat warship | 3 |
model underway warship | 8 | art warship | 3 |
cheat gunner naval ops warship | 7 | photo warship | 3 |
japanese warship | 6 | modern warship | 3 |
c r warship | 6 | roman warship | 3 |
combat model warship | 6 | wallpaper warship | 3 |
german warship | 6 | canadian warship | 3 |
warship picture | 6 | greek warship | 3 |
gunner naval ops ps2 warship | 5 | model rc warship | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "warship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | luftanije (battleship, capital ship, man-of-war). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سفينة حربية (battleship, cruiser, monitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | военен кораб. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 艦只 , 艦 , 軍艦 (military naval vessel), 兵艦 , 兵船 (man-of-war, naval vessel), 军舰 (man-of-war). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | váleèná loï (man-of-war). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | krigsskib. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oorlogsvaartuig, oorlogsschip, oorlogsbodem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناوجنگی , کشتی جنگی (Navy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sotalaiva (war-ship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | navire de guerre, bâtiment de guerre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kriegsschiff (man-of-war). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολεμικό πλοίο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | א ית מלחמ" (battleship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hadihajó (battlewagon, craft, man-of-war, men-of-war, naval vessel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nave da guerra (battleship, man-of-war). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 軍艦 (battleship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぐ"せ" (ancient commander's fan), ぐ"か" (battleship), ふじょう (defilement, dirtiness, filthiness, floating fortress, impurity, inconstancy, indefinite, insecurity, latrine, menses, rising to the surface, surfacing, toilet, uncertainty, uncleanliness, undecided), か"せ" (contagion, government compilation, government-appointed, infection, main line, psoriasis, sweat gland, trunk line, vessels, watching agame), か" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, writing brush), いくさぶね, もうどう (acting blindly), へいせ" (fire caused by war). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 군함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhong caggee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arshipway navio de guerra (manometer, peacemaker). (various references) vas de rãzboi (battleship, Dreadnought, man-of-war), bastiment. (various references) военный корабль (man-of-war). (various references) ratni brod (man-of-war, war-ship). (various references) navio de guerra, buque de guerra (battleship, fighting ship, man-of-war). (various references) krigsfartyg (man-of-war), örlogsfartyg (man-of-war). (various references) savaş gemisi (battleship, gunboat, naval). (various references) військовий корабель (man-of-war, warcraft). (various references) t u chiến (rating). (various references) cadlong (battleship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "warship": warships. (additional references) | |
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"Warship" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: warsh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "warship" (pronounced wô"rshi'p) |
| 4 | -r sh i' p | airship, premiership, starship. |
| 3 | -sh i' p | ambassadorship, apprenticeship, authorship, battleship, bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, censorship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, companionship, conservatorship, consulship, craftsmanship, dealership, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, draftsmanship, editorship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, gamesmanship, generalship, governorship, guardianship, gunship, hardship, headship, horsemanship, internship, interrelationship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, leadership, Lightship, marksmanship, membership, musicianship, ownership, partisanship, partnership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, receivership, relationship, ridership, salesmanship, scholarship, showmanship, spaceship, speakership, sponsorship, sportsmanship, statesmanship, steamship, stewardship, township, trusteeship, upmanship, viewership, workmanship. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-p-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: parish, raphis, rawish, ripsaw. | |
-2 letters: aphis, apish, hairs, harps, pairs, paris, pshaw, sharp, spahi, wairs, warps, whaps, whips, whirs, wisha, wraps. | |
-3 letters: airs, hair, haps, harp, hasp, haws, hips, pair, pars, pash, paws, phis, pias, pish, raps, rash, rasp, raws, rias, rips, sari, shaw, ship, shri, spar, swap, wair, waps, warp, wars, wash. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-p-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: wardship, warships, whiprays. | |
+2 letters: wardships. | |
+3 letters: prewashing, wardenship. | |
+4 letters: athwartship, playwrights, stewardship, wardenships, workmanship. | |
+5 letters: athwartships, paperweights, praiseworthy, stewardships, superhighway, watermanship, workmanships. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 61 72 73 68 69 70 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. ... .... .. .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W a r s h i p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0061 0072 0073 0068 0069 0070 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)57678485747582 |
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