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Meanings of frigate in inglés
Modern warship class designed to fulfill several roles independently or in support of naval forces or merchant convoys.
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Examples for "ff"
Examples for "ff"
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At this moment I introduce in the orchestra in F minor ff.
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And, as a lawyer, he uses the authority of Vergil, ff.
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To marry likewise our daughters when they are ripe, and no sooner, ff.
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VAGRANT: ff you look at God, you turn to stone.
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Seidenadel, The Language of the Bontoc Igorot, p. 491 ff.
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RUSSIA Russia's navy sent a Baltic Fleet frigate, the Neustrashimy (Fearless), to the Gulf of Aden in September to combat pirates.
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The king's mail came by a fast frigate.
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Can you deny that a seaman before the mast makes more in a fast frigate than a lieutenant can in a battleship?
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A fast frigate from Gibraltar carried the warning to Calder off Ferrol and to the Brest blockade, whence it reached London on April 25.
Usage of frigate in inglés
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One of the captains asked, 'Had the frigate already left the convoy?'
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The frigate had moved ten million kilometers in-system from their rendezvous point.
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The gale continued till the frigate was close in with the coast.
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A French naval frigate seized 11 buccaneers on Wednesday, foiling another attack.
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Early in the morning the Merrimac appeared, moving toward the steam-frigate Minnesota.
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The French frigate was drawing in closer and closer to the fort.
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But there is a new frigate building and almost completed at Plymouth.
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The frigate drew nearer and nearer to it; still she flew ahead.
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When the sun rose he saw the frigate some twenty miles away.
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We sailed from the Cape in company with the Astree French frigate.
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Immediately the anchor was raised, and the frigate set out in pursuit.
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While in the hospital, the frigate made a cruise, leaving me ashore.
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Sir Sydney then pulled off in his small boat for the frigate.
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The frigate answered, Not so; they neither have nor purpose to yield.
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This was the popular name by which the frigate Constitution was known.
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Until that moment, none in the frigate were aware of our vicinity.
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United Kingdom
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