Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art or business of designing and constructing ships.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Naval architecture; the art of constructing vessels for navigation, particularly ships and other large vessels carrying masts: in distinction from boat-building.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The construction of ships.
- n. A construction of a ship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the construction of ships
- n. the construction of ships
Etymologies
- ship + building (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As articulated in their respective long-term shipbuilding plans, the Navy and the Coast Guard intend to purchase a total of 83 small combatants.”
Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Modernization of Coast Guard Cutters and Naval Surface Combatants
“Once a center for salt shipping, Lymington became known as a shipbuilding and trading port during the Middle Ages.”
“For one illustration, we are using today vastly more wood in shipbuilding than in the days when all the ships of all the world were made of wood; and that applies all down through the line.”
“I have seen illustrations in shipbuilding, where, after making quite a sweep, discharging of men that worked on a vessel, we drove more rivets with the smaller force than we did before.”
“Chinese shipbuilders beat Korea for the first time in Chinese shipbuilding history in terms of volume of shipbuilding orders placed in 2009.”
“Roughead's order reminds its readers that Midway put America back on the offensive only six months after the disastrous surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when the IJN outnumbered the USN due to a gap in longterm shipbuilding programs combined with asymmetric battle losses; there is also today real concern about the adequacy of the current USN longterm shipbuilding program.”
“The 1980s saw explosive growth in Korean shipbuilding: In 1980,”
“When the war ended, it marked the end of the boom in shipbuilding that had kept Harold’s father working 7 days a week.”
“We’d won the war! It was over.” « Quincy Remembers World War II
“The Navy's long-term shipbuilding plan, combined with a Pentagon effort to cut costs on big weapons programs, presents challenges for Northrop.”
The Washington Post: Northrop prepares to spin off ship unit
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shipbuilding’.
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ship phrases /words
how ship is used
shipway, great ship, king's ship, ship-accounts, ship-agent, ship-based, ship-beak, ship-bearer, ship-bearing, ship-beer, ship-bell, ship-beset and 229 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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