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NAVY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dark shade of blue
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("navy" is a kind of...):
blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
Synonyms:
naval forces; navy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("navy" is a kind of...):
armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)
Meronyms (members of "navy"):
naval unit (a military unit that is part of a navy)
fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Domain member category:
broadside (the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship)
broadside (all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship)
station ((nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty)
Derivation:
naval (connected with or belonging to or used in a navy)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces
Synonyms:
Navy; United States Navy; US Navy; USN
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Navy" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Meronyms (parts of "Navy"):
Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division; NAWCWPNS (the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems)
Naval Special Warfare; NSW (the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare)
Naval Surface Warfare Center; NSWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare)
Naval Underwater Warfare Center; NUWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems)
United States Naval Academy; US Naval Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Navy)
Office of Naval Intelligence; ONI (the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy)
Naval Research Laboratory; NRL (the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines)
Holonyms ("Navy" is a part of...):
Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)
Context examples:
As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it—and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Having by this time cried as much as I possibly could, I began to think it was of no use crying any more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A little beauty, and a few smiles, and a few compliments to the navy, and I am a lost man.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
But do not imagine that it is a light service which you undertake, young gentleman, when you enter His Majesty’s Navy.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The wreck was located about 50 miles (80 km) south of Okinawa, Japan at a depth of over 1400 feet (about 430 meters), far from where the Navy's records initially predicted it would be.
(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)
Navy beans are rich in fiber, minerals, vitamins, and phytochemicals such as flavonoids and phytosterols.
(Navy Bean Powder, NCI Thesaurus)
The profession, either navy or army, is its own justification.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels—I forget what, now—that were on those shelves; and for days and days I can remember to have gone about my region of our house, armed with the centre-piece out of an old set of boot-trees—the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being beset by savages, and resolved to sell his life at a great price.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had only navy lists and newspapers for her authority, but she could not doubt his being rich; and, in favour of his constancy, she had no reason to believe him married.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
