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frig·ate (frigit)

noun

  1. a fast, medium-sized sailing warship of the 18th and early 19th cent., which carried from 24 to 60 guns
  2. a Brit. warship between a corvette and a destroyer
    1. until 1975, a U.S. warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a light cruiser
    2. since 1975, a U.S. warship smaller than a destroyer, used chiefly for escort duty

Etymology: Fr frégate < It fregata

frigate Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • gun: Launched 1 st August 1810, cut down to a frigate of 50 guns ( 4 th rate ) 1831.

Converse of object

  • capture: In 1805 he lost an arm during an action in which he captured some French frigates.
  • build: The most recent ship to bear the name HMS Duncan was a Type 14 frigate built in 1957.
  • include: There are also a few wrecks including the Russian frigate, Capt. Keith Tibbets, sunk in 1996 at 25m.
  • sink: Normally, a ship of the line would have been able to sink a frigate with a very few broadsides.
  • command: He then commanded the frigate HMS BRILLIANT, was Director of the Naval Staff and had the role of Senior Naval Officer Middle East.

Adjective modifier

  • anti-submarine: The next solution was to develop anti-submarine frigates that could be added to the escort groups.
  • French: This was followed by action with a French frigate.
  • Spanish: After a general action of 35 minutes the Spanish frigate struck, three of the gunboats blew up and six were sunk.
  • British: The wind was too light to let them chase off the British frigates.
  • American: The American frigates which captured them were armed with long guns.
  • English: It was the harbor that Sir Henry Morgan had taken with three small English frigates.

Modifies a noun

  • bird: A farmer found a frigate bird in a moribund state in Shropshire, England on 7th November.
  • captain: Promoted to Post Captain in 1783 he quickly gained a reputation as a smart frigate captain.

Noun used with modifier

  • gun: In the 1790s the Americans built some very large 44 gun frigates with an extra gun deck on top of the normal one.
  • missile: We descended onto the deck of the Russian destroyer 356, a missile frigate that had once belonged to the Soviet Navy.
  • steam: Account of capture of four noted slavers by Her Majesty's steam frigate, Cormorant on the coast of Brazil.
  • class: November - HRH joined HMS Minerva, a Leander class frigate.
  • screw: The " Defense " a screw steamer war frigate was launched in the afternoon.
  • navy: The protesters chained themselves to a French navy frigate.

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