Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
warship
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for warship.
Editorial note
When was the last time we shot at another warship with a warship?
Quick take
Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of warship gathered in one view.
(science fiction) A spacecraft built or armed for space warfare.
(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 41 locomotive, dating from the late 1950s.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for warship.
noun
Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
See also: war-vessel, combat-ship
noun
(science fiction) A spacecraft built or armed for space warfare.
See also: war-vessel, combat-ship
noun
(British, rail transport) A British Rail Class 41 locomotive, dating from the late 1950s.
See also: war-vessel, combat-ship
Example sentences
When was the last time we shot at another warship with a warship?
It includes peasants in the middle ages, factory workers in ‘Soviet Russia’ and even gally slaves on a Roman warship.
This, of course, is critical for a warship out at sea that would need to make repairs or improvise right now.
Of course, it’ll probably have significantly inferior performance to a real warship, since it has a merchant ship’s engines and hull.
A nice example is HMS Victory, a wooden warship that saw battle at Trafalgar.
I still remember an array called K which contained the X,Y coordinates and shield strength of each Klingon warship.
Monitorama hosted a great talk by Pete Cheslock about the Vasa warship project.
The difference here is that the Santa Maria is not a warship, so I'm not sure the same rule applies.
The warship has been decomissioned, but clearly Windows is more durable.
We laughed at the warship disabled due to NT issues.
It does not matter that it is not a warship.
That warship was NOT disabled due to NT issues.
Quote examples
Search for "warship" on google images, click on your favorite one, and look for flat, slightly off-color octagon-ish panels on the side.
In Excession, a Culture warship comments how the brain-computer interface (in-universe called a "neural lace") is the most effective torture device ever devised.
Not just a battleship, one of the two famous Japanese "Super-battleships", pride of the Japanese navy, with the biggest guns ever fitted on a warship.
For the cost of your single "thermally stealth" warship, your enemy can likely afford thousands of cheap dumb probes that can spot you from many angles.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use warship in a sentence?
When was the last time we shot at another warship with a warship?
What does warship mean?
Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
What part of speech is warship?
warship is commonly used as noun.