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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

  • enemy: On later levels, enemy spaceships harry you, and the need to defend yourself enters the equation.
  • class: In the background, the Liberator's scanners have detected a 700 year old Earth ' Wanderer ' class spaceship drifting toward the planet.
spaceship Quotes

I am a passenger on the spaceship, Earth.

—Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster

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.

—Koestler, Arthur

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.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

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