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SAILOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
Synonyms:
boater; leghorn; Panama; Panama hat; sailor; skimmer; straw hat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sailor" is a kind of...):
chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A serviceman in the navy
Synonyms:
bluejacket; navy man; sailor; sailor boy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sailor" is a kind of...):
man; military man; military personnel; serviceman (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailor"):
coastguardsman (a member of a coastguard)
Navy SEAL; SEAL (a member of a Naval Special Warfare unit who is trained for unconventional warfare)
striker (someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating)
submariner (a member of the crew of a submarine)
Derivation:
sail (traverse or travel on (a body of water))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any member of a ship's crew
Synonyms:
crewman; sailor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sailor" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailor"):
hand (a member of the crew of a ship)
lascar (an East Indian sailor)
gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar (a man who serves as a sailor)
water dog; water rat (a person who enjoys being in or on the water)
yachtsman; yachtswoman (a person who owns or sails a yacht)
Instance hyponyms:
Alexander Selcraig; Alexander Selkirk; Selcraig; Selkirk (Scottish sailor who was put ashore on a deserted island off the coast of Chile for five years (providing the basis for Daniel Defoe's novel about Robinson Crusoe) (1676-1721))
Derivation:
sail (traverse or travel on (a body of water))
Context examples:
Only once in those long years did my father return home, which will show you what it meant to be the wife of a sailor in those days.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nobody can wonder that men are soldiers and sailors.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Veer the sheet! and strange it was to him to see how swiftly the blood-stained sailors turned from the strife to the ropes and back.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Probably he handed it to some sailor customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sailor grinned and passed him a fragment of sea biscuit.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, which I had no inclination to answer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Because, in some professional inquiry, he has been working among Chinese sailors down in the docks.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I've hearn sailors talk of sharks followin' a ship," Bill remarked, as he crawled back into the blankets after one such replenishing of the fire.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The carcinogens can be of any type: chemicals, electromagnetic fields, UV, viruses, etc. Many of these agents may also be commonly encountered outside the occupational environment (e.g., UV) but in such cases they are not coded in this category; for farmers and sailors, UV is an occupational carcinogen.
(Occupational Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)
Part of the most remote island archipelago on Earth, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monumen is home to more than 7,000 marine species, including coral, fish, seals, turtles, whales, and several shipwrecks, and serves as the final resting place for more than 3,000 sailors and soldiers who served during World War II.
(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)
