词汇 | sailing-ship |
释义 | BETA sailing shipcollocation in Englishmeanings of sailingand shipThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. sailing noun uk /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/ us /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/ the sport or activity of using boats ... See more at sailing ship noun[ C ] uk /ʃɪp/ us /ʃɪp/ a large boat for travelling on water, especially across ... See more at ship Examples of sailing shipsailing ship Then came the steam engine, which revolutionised naval warfare and drove the sailingship from the sea. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been the transition from the galley to the sailingship, and from the sailingship to vessels propelled by steam and the internal combustion engine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were very few nations which could really move about the world readily, and the speed of movement was the speed of the horse and the sailingship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On a sailingship, however, the cadets could live under the same conditions as the men of the lower deck and take part in all the working of the ship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was because the chart was based on a survey carried out in 1843 by a sailingship taking hand-lead soundings along tracks one mile apart. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The steamship was drastically faster than the sailingship, and provided cheaper services, opening the trade to small operators. A sailingship cannot sail directly into a headwind. The sailingship, therefore, had great uses then, and there are uses for it still, for that matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the old sailingship days you might have time to put a thing right, but you have no time to do so now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In school, one is always taught that the sailingship was driven off the sea by the steamer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For one thing a sailingship has a poor chance in competition with a steamer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The net tonnage is the basis for reckoning maritime dues, but they are computed in a manner which developed in the old sailingship days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The experience would all be gained upon a sailingship without very much expenditure of public money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had a patient until recently who had been a boatswain on a sailingship; he had been retired for 51 years when he died. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When the steamship first came it was complementary to the sailingship, but finally, for all practical purposes, it swept it from the seas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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