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submarine
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. beneath the surface of the sea [syn: undersea ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible , which has more limited underwater capability. The term most commonly refers to a large, crewed, autonomous vessel. It is also sometimes used historically ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"submarine boat," 1899, from submarine (adj.). Earlier "a creature living under the sea" (1703). The short form sub is first recorded 1917. As a type of sandwich from 1955, so called from the shape of the roll. Related: Submariner .
Usage examples of submarine.
Then suddenly they were gone, all stopped together, and the water resumed its flat oily calm, only the smell of sulphur hanging on the air to remind us that we were aground on a submarine volcano that was fissured with gas-vents like a colander.
The flooding worsened the list until the ship began leaning hard aport into the hull of the black submarine alongside.
He had charge of all the USW assets in the area, ranging from P-3s deployed from shore stations in support of the battle group, to the S-3 submarine-hunter killers that flew off our own flight deck, to the host of other national assets, including our own submarines.
The first black shape was the sail of a submarine, vertical and unadorned, with a slight angling fillet bringing it to the deck of the cylindrical shape, the sail identical to that of his old Seawolf, but the hull now appearing beneath the sail too small in diameter to belong to a Seawolf-class.
Navy came up with the term, an acronym for Submarine Naval Automated Robotic Combat system.
Edwards had designed the special instrumentation for the Barracuda and the Bluefin that monitored the thermal variations in the water surrounding the submarine, giving the skipper a constant readout of temperature differentials.
It was Gibbs who had masterminded the sale of the Shark, a World War II, Gato- class submarine, to the Chilean government, and arranged its modifications to look like the Barracuda, before sinking it in fifteen hundred fathoms of water.
Every officer aboard the Barracuda was requested either by Captain Crawton or by some other senior officer aboard the submarine.
I examined them and positively identified the blister markings of a submarine exactly like the Barracuda and the Bluefin, and placed them in my office safe .
End and final entry of Captain Crawton, Commander of the submarine Barracuda .
Two Borzoi submarines were completed in late 1991 using purloined stealth technology.
Of the extortionists--they were no better than extortionists, although they had been attempting to work on an international plane--had been caught, those who had not drowned when the submarine sank.
In class Major Staley lectured on the firststrike survival capability of our nuclear arsenal, ranging from the landbased Minuteman and Titan missile silos to the nuclearpowered Polaris submarine missilelaunching fleet to the more than five hundred combatready bombers of the Strategic Air Command.
Catherine gazed up at the cathedral-like vaults of the overpass, like a succession of empty submarine pens.
But where in a submarine you are only surrounded by the elements, during phasing, you become part of the elements.