Hovercraft vs Submarine - What's the difference?
hovercraft | submarine |
A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
English plurals
undersea.
Hidden or undisclosed.
A boat that can go underwater.
A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.
(baseball) Pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
Any submarine plant or animal.
(informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
To operate or serve on a
To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack
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Submarine is a hyponym of hovercraft.
As nouns the difference between hovercraft and submarine
is that hovercraft is a vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport while submarine is a boat that can go underwater.As an adjective submarine is
undersea.As a verb submarine is
to operate or serve on a submarine.hovercraft
English
(Hovercraft)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* ACV, air-cushion vehicle, GEM, ground-effect machinesubmarine
English
(wikipedia submarine)Adjective
(-)- a submarine patent
Synonyms
* subaquatic, subaqueousNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (boat) U-boat * (sandwich) grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, poor boy, po' boy, sub, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedgeAntonyms
* (boat) surface shipVerb
(submarin)citation