spaceship
spaceship
Definition
space·ship (-s̸hip′)
noun
a spacecraft, esp. if manned
spaceship
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- crash: When onboard a crashed spaceship, they discover Cassandra.
- fly: His latest mission is to fly a spaceship with a trans-dimensional drive.
- build: Building the Spaceship is a bit of a drag.
- see: What if tomorrow morning, you walked out of your door and saw an enormous spaceship hovering over your entire city?
- design: Members in Group 1 saw the Virtual Reality Suite and designed a spaceship, Group 2 designed their own computer game.
- have: You have a little spaceship, a red triangle.
Adjective modifier
- interplanetary: To such people a searchlight on a cloud or a bright star is an interplanetary spaceship.
- extraterrestrial: The belief that physical proof of extraterrestrial spaceships is kept secret is hopelessly irrational.
- interstellar: You will find yourself in a vast interstellar spaceship that has gone out of control.
- alien: Designed for a cheeky barbecue for two, the small grill looks more like an alien spaceship than a cooking device.
- giant: The Daleks planned to extract the Earth's core and turn the planet into a giant spaceship.
- little: You have a little spaceship, a red triangle.
Modifies a noun
- crash: The bit where Elton is talking about when the spaceship crash landed in London.
- earth: Here on spaceship earth, we seem less tolerant.
- battle: About half an hour in there is what must be the least interesting spaceship battle ever.
- mode: Find out what it is like to be an astronaut in spaceship mode where you can travel to the edges of the known universe.
- land: While Jim is inside the dragon an alien spaceship lands on the Baron and takes the dragon back to their planet for secret experiments.
- pilot: The spaceship pilot then fires his rocket motor for about 80 seconds, reaching Mach 3 in a vertical climb.
Noun used with modifier
spaceship Quotes
I am a passenger on the spaceship, Earth.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
The last sound on the worthless earthwill be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where theyare going next.
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