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navy | circumnavigate |

As a noun navy

is a country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.

As an adjective navy

is having the dark blue colour of navy blue.

As a verb circumnavigate is

to travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.

navy

English

(wikipedia navy)

Noun

(navies)
  • A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy .}}
  • A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.
  • A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
  • * 2006 , Samantha Hunt, The Seas: A Novel , page 57:
    • The cover is as navy as a bruise.
  • * 2006 , Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure , page 26:
    • The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.
  • Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
  • * 1943 , Fletcher Pratt, The Navy has wings , page 167:
    • [...] 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.
  • * 1993 , Robert A. Frezza, McLendon's Syndrome , page 299:
    • 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.
  • * 1994 , Harry Carey, Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company , page 76:
    • 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.
  • * 2003 , Jedwin Smith, Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold , page 88:
    • 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.
  • * 2003 , Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story , page 21:
    • Goodwin was navy through and through.

    Quotations

    * 2001 , Lynda Barry, Cruddy , page 21: *: Possibly she was more Navy than I was. * 2004 , James L. Nelson, Glory in the Name: A Novel of the Confederate Navy , page 100: *: One glance told him Fairfax was old navy , through and through. * 2008 , Don Pendleton, The Killing Rule , page 201: *: The skipper was Russian navy through and through. He considered this his duty, and he was prepared to die doing it.

    Derived terms

    * merchant navy * naval * naval dockyard * navy bean * navy cut * Navy Cross * navy yard * Royal Navy

    Related terms

    * navicular * nonnaval

    See also

    * * Annapolis * bluejacket * captain * chief petty officer * commodore * ensign * erk * Fleet Air Arm * gob * gunroom * marine * Seabee * silent service

    circumnavigate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To travel completely around somewhere or something, especially by sail.
    • We circumnavigated the Mediterranean.
  • To circumvent or bypass.
  • * {{quote-news, 2006, July 9, , Magic month of memories, Times of London citation
    • , passage=Rebel of the tournament: Saudi Arabia’s Malek Al Hawsawi, who circumnavigated Fifa’s ban on jewellery by keeping his ring in his mouth.}}
  • (sailing) To sail around the world.
  • * {{quote-book, 1992, Richard Henderson, Singlehanded Sailing citation
    • , passage=Patrick Childress, who solo circumnavigated on a Catalina 27 in 1982, stresses the value of eggs, which will keep at least six weeks if previously unrefrigerated and oiled with vegetable shortening.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, Diana Jessie, The Cruising Woman's Advisor citation
    • , passage=Jack and Lura Francis, both fairly tall, circumnavigated on a Westsail 32. }}
  • * {{quote-news, 2004, March 10, Edward Gorman, Van den Heede rewarded for perseverance, Times of London citation
    • , passage=Chay Blyth was the first when he circumnavigated in British Steel in 292 days in 1970 in a voyage that some predicted would end in certain death.}}

    Synonyms

    * (travel completely around) compass, go around, sail around * (circumvent) circumvent, go round

    Related terms

    * circumnavigation * circumnavigator * navigate