The ensign of the United States is Stars and Stripes. 美国国旗是星条旗。
An ensign; a flag. 军旗;旗帜
An ensign is a junior officer in the United States Navy. 海军少尉是美国海军中的下级军官。
ensign
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a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
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an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality
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colors flown by a ship to show its nationality
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Ensign \En"sign\, v. t. 1. To designate as by an ensign. [Obs.]
Henry but joined the roses that ensigned Particular families. --B. Jonson.
2. To distinguish by a mark or ornament; esp. (Her.), by a crown; thus, any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
ensign \en"sign\ ([e^]n"s[i^]n also [e^]n"s[imac]n, except for 4a), n. [L. enseigne, L. insignia, pl. of insigne a distinctive mark, badge, flag; in + signum mark, sign. See {Sign}, and cf. {Insignia}, 3d {Ancient}.] 1. A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still. --Shak.
2. A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
He will lift an ensign to the nations from far. --Is. v. 26.
3. Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
The ensigns of our power about we bear. --Waller.
4. (a) Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment. (b) A commissioned officer of the lowest grade in the navy, corresponding to the grade of second lieutenant in the army. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Note: In the British army the rank of ensign was abolished in 1871. In the United States army the rank is not recognized; the regimental flags being carried by a sergeant called the color sergeant.
{Ensign bearer}, one who carries a flag; an ensign.
"We all feel as if we're ready for it" said one 23-year-old ensign who flies the F-18.
Mr. Whitney, 44, applied to Navy Officer Candidate School after college and was commissioned as an ensign.
The former Norwegian American liners Vistafjord and Sagafjord ran up Cunard's familiar ensign of a lion rampant after their purchase in 1983.
Truly holds a bachelor of aeronautical engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1959.