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Meanings of navies in English
Maritime warfare branch of a military.
Synonyms
Examples for "navy"
Examples for "navy"
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A navy statement gave no information on the identity of the victims.
2
Today, a police and navy dive squad will continue searching for it.
3
The Malaysian navy was monitoring the situation, one of the sources said.
4
He served in the New Zealand navy during the Second World War.
5
And Victoria's mid-length navy frock, however, raised eyebrows for the wrong reasons.
1
Therefore we continue a policy of a naval blockade, Netanyahu told ministers.
2
Name the present secretary of the navy; the two highest naval officers.
3
Just two weeks ago, Britain was calling for a European-led naval mission.
4
I work for naval intelligence, which he almost certainly didn't tell you.
5
Oct. 17-Russiansdefeated in a naval engagement in the Gulf of Riga.
1
A large man in a gray knitted hat and a wet navy-blue jacket came marching up beside the wall in big rubber boots.
2
"Back on Old Earth, one of the old wet navies had a tradition," Jaruwalski said distantly, returning her eyes to the display.
1
In these results maritime power, directly or indirectly, had a great share.
2
Sir, we were at war with the greatest maritime power on earth.
3
The Republic of RHODES was the chief maritime power in the Ægean Sea.
4
Athens, mainly a maritime power, ruled all the subject cities of the Aegean.
5
The country also affords as many sites for maritime power as any other.
1
With justice England is called the mightiest naval power in the world.
2
England succeeded Spain and Holland as a naval power; and when Charles II.
3
But with the subjects of a naval power it is different.
4
In 1875 Germany was neither a maritime nor a naval power.
5
Thirdly, yourselves excepted, we are the greatest naval power in Hellas.
1
Their fortifications have lately been rebuilt and their maritime force increased.
2
Washington's proposed Gulf maritime force -dubbed Operation Sentinel -is struggling to leave the harbour.
3
A bigger maritime force has the possibility of personally enriching one of the candidate's top advisers.
4
Asian allies will also have questions for Esper on a U.S.-led maritime force in the Strait of Hormuz.
5
You would think the maritime force would reexamine the method it provides air power from the sea, vital yet today too vulnerable.
1
The chief of the place possesses a naval force of 600 canoes.
2
A naval force was to go forward with him on the lake.
3
He accordingly determined to take immediate measures for forming a naval force.
4
Russians, with a large naval force, attack Constantinople, and the Saracens Thessalonica.
5
Arms and a naval force, however, are what must ultimately save us.
1
Because of its vastness, naval forces monitor the area with surveillance aircraft.
2
Of the disposition of the naval forces of Germany less was known.
3
Our foe, as regards his naval forces, came the next in order.
4
The Germans fled from Ostend and British naval forces were landed there.
5
And he also had his naval forces to inspect at frequent intervals.
1
Our naval combatant fleet is three times its pre-Pearl Harbor tonnage.
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Even with their inferior weapons and shields, the extra 140 warships joined with the Imperial defense fleet made the odds more even.
2
"Tactical, what's the status on our friends' defense fleet."
Usage of navies in English
1
A new get-tough approach by foreign navies has already yielded some success.
2
The latter is the form used in the American and British navies.
3
Thence came a radical transformation in the navies of the two continents.
4
These figures give some idea of the effectiveness of the various navies.
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Beijing's expanding submarine fleet has been of growing concern to regional navies.
6
The first mines are used to supply the fleets of foreign navies.
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The crash of the encounter between the two navies was now imminent.
8
The armies and navies of the powers would be at his mercy.
9
The old historic navies of the Greek and Phoenician states had declined.
10
This deep and capacious harbor can float the navies of the world.
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The showing as to the cost of great navies is equally impressive.
12
The wireless proved as valuable to the navies as had been anticipated.
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Then there were data on the French and Russian armies and navies.
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The old Republican prejudice against standing armies and seagoing navies still survived.
15
All the world's navies can swing at ease in this superb bay.
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It is associated with armies and navies, and an unlimited police force.
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