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Meanings of drydock in inglés
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A large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline.
Synonyms
Examples for "dry dock"
Examples for "dry dock"
1
In 1961 it was raised, refloated and moved to a dry dock.
2
His mouth opened and closed like a fish on a dry dock.
3
The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock.
4
We won't build the dry dock until we've taken the ship.
5
He told me he would send her into dry dock to-day.
1
In November 1800 the new graving dock, near the bridge, was opened for the reception of vessels.
2
Include medium-heavy dismounting tools, below the graving dock size, but heavy enough to handle any job less drastic.
3
History was marked at Dublin Port on Monday when tall ship Jeanie Johnston floated out of its graving dock.
4
Seaton carried this intelligence directly to Lloyds' agent; he overhauled the ship, and ordered her into the graving dock for repairs.
5
He reclaimed some land from the sea, and made a shipyard and graving dock on what was known as Corporation Ground.
Usage of drydock in inglés
1
Then more and more, and soon he had his own drydock.
2
Can't fix those ducts properly without putting the ship in a full drydock.
3
They are constantly kept in repair each winter when laid up in drydock.
4
The captain promised to take a message to the drydock.
5
His pal was on an aircraft carrier that was in drydock getting a new scientific deck.
6
A jetmarine was hoisted into drydock and the work crew swarmed over it, rigging the transducers.
7
The job was considered an impossibility because there was no drydock large enough to take the monster.
8
All three efforts use the same drydock.
9
I ordered us back to drydock immediately.
10
As I stepped onto the drydock, I was surprised to see that we were back in Kribirsk.
11
Mentions the Enterprise now lying in drydock, and then thinks about Lipton, the Great Loser and his cup sloops.
12
Go to drydock and patch up your reputation, and in a few years you'll come out as good as new.
13
The deficiencies included such problems as a frozen valve, rags and debris in an engine room and a 74-day overdue drydock examination.
14
Ahead was the harbor: cubes that must be warehouses, rotting docks, cranes of elegantly simplistic design, and one tremendous ground-effect ship in drydock.
15
We had not been able to haul the ships out over the winter and tar their timbers, whereas Agrippa's had spent that time in drydock.
16
I thought she was very intelligent-seemedvery much interested when Lieutenant Green was explaining to her what made the drydock dry-butthey were all that.
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