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Corvette vs Brig - What's the difference?

corvette | brig |

As a proper noun corvette

is a sports car, manufactured by from 1953 to present, an american icon.

As a noun brig is

force, power.

corvette

English

(wikipedia corvette)

Alternative forms

* (l) (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical, historical) A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
  • (nautical) In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.

    • brig

    English

    (wikipedia brig)

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviated from brigantine, from (etyl) brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
  • (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
    • See also
    * hermaphrodite brig * gun-brig

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) bridge
    • (Burns)

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (brigadier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Brigadier.

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