Marina vs Navy - What's the difference?
marina | navy |
A harbour for small boats.
A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
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A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.
A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue .
Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
* 2006 , Samantha Hunt, The Seas: A Novel , page 57:
* 2006 , Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure , page 26:
Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
* 1943 , Fletcher Pratt, The Navy has wings , page 167:
* 1993 , Robert A. Frezza, McLendon's Syndrome , page 299:
* 1994 , Harry Carey, Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company , page 76:
* 2003 , Jedwin Smith, Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold , page 88:
* 2003 , Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story , page 21:
As adjectives the difference between marina and navy
is that marina is while navy is having the dark blue colour of navy blue.As a noun navy is
a country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.marina
English
Noun
(en noun)- It's a peaceful marina with not too many boats and yachts.
Anagrams
* * ----navy
English
(wikipedia navy)Noun
(navies)Adjective
(en adjective)- The cover is as navy as a bruise.
- The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.
- [...] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors' own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.
- Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesn't want to get out. Now, I know there's no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.
- It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.
- He was navy through and through; no-nonsense, humorless, and all spit and polish—every hair in its place, every thought gleaned from the manual compiled by brilliant sea dogs of long ago.
- Goodwin was navy through and through.
