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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE full ▪ He made the decision to lessen the angle of impact by closing the throttle, applying hard up elevator and full right rudder . ▪ If the spin stops when the full opposite rudder is applied, the stick must be ...
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Rudder is an open source audit and configuration management utility to help automate system configuration across large IT infrastructures. Rudder relies on a lightweight local agent installed on each managed machine (derived from CFEngine 3). Rudder is ...
Usage examples of rudder.
The rudder protruded from the water far aft of the point where the water lapped the aft hull.
There were no shore power cables on the ship but a heavy gantry with thick cables had been retracted aft near the rudder.
The helmsman acknowledged and the rudder, far aft, turned in the white wake of the stern.
Seawolf responded to the rudder, the nose cone avoiding the pier to the south of Pier 4 as the vessel moved into the channel and a violent white foamy wake boiled up aft at the rudder.
The aft view showed the same plumes of vapor coming from the cylindrical deck just forward of the rudder.
But if the nukes aft could get propulsion they could take control of the rudder, and with Lennox in the sail and communications with the walkie-talkies, Lennox and the nukes alone could drive the ship away from the pier.
The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.
Lennox raised his head above the scarred steel of the top of the sail to look aft, making sure the rudder was turned to the right instead of left.
The deck of the ship began to tremble as the water aft of the rudder erupted into foam and the screw began to spin at maximum RPM.
And the aileron and rudder controls, and those which governed the pitch and tune of the rotor blades, by whose combined means the little gig could have been brought down to the surface, were out of operation.
Perhaps because the chuan is slow and sturdy, it has only a single rudder for steering, not two as on our vessels, and it is set amidship at the stern and requires no more than a single steersman.
The Khakhan was the chuan, the biggest ship on the water, steered by a single firm rudder gripped by a single firm hand.
Also we had one fin and rudder badly damaged and a huge hole in the port wing.
She mashed down the left rudder pedal, sending the Devastator into a slow, counter-clockwise spin.
One of these controlled the rudder and the fairwater planes mounted on the sail, and the other the stern planes.