Battleship Definition

bătl-shĭp
battleships
noun
battleships
Any one of a class of warships of the largest size, carrying the greatest number of weapons and clad with the heaviest armor.
American Heritage
Any of a class of large warships with the biggest guns and very heavy armor.
Webster's New World

(military) Large capital warship displacing tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with big guns. Battleships are now obsolescent, replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles. Types: dreadnought, pre-dreadnought.

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Non-functional rocket stage, used for configuration and integration tests.

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A guessing game played on grid paper, see Battleship (game)
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Singular:
battleship
Plural:
battleships

Origin of Battleship

  • Short for line-of-battle ship

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Battleship Sentence Examples

  • In February she launched the battleship "Royal Sovereign" at Portsmouth; a week later she visited the Horse Show at Islington.

  • Many states have been for a considerable time supplied by Krupp with steel guns and battleship plates.

  • In these circumstances, President McKinley, accompanied by the greater part of his cabinet, set forth in the early summer on a tour to visit the Pacific coast, where he was to witness the launching of the battleship "Ohio" at San Francisco.

  • During the War she took part in many major events, the first of which was the pursuit of the german battleship Bismarck.

  • Somewhere out on the River Plate were a series of buoys marking the grave of the german pocket battleship, the Graf Spee.

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