corvette

As a verb curvet

is (of a horse) to leap about, frolic.

As a noun curvet

is a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as his forelegs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

As a proper noun corvette is

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

In nautical terms the difference between cutter and corvette

is that cutter is a ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore while corvette is in a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.

As nouns the difference between cutter and corvette

is that cutter is a person or device that cuts (in various senses) while corvette is 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.

As a proper noun corvette

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

As a noun cruiser is

(nautical|in the days of sail) a frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships.

As a noun corvetto

is (mineralogy) a curvet.

As a proper noun corvette is

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

As a proper noun corvette

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

As a noun bark is

(three-masted vessel).

As nouns the difference between corvette and destroyer

is that corvette is 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 while destroyer is that which destroys something.