This kind of battleship is assembled with big guns. 这种战舰装备着大型火炮。
The missile had blown the battleship asunder. 炮弹把战舰炸碎了。
battleship
[ noun ] large and heavily armoured warship <noun.artifact>
Line \Line\, n. [OE. line, AS. l[=i]ne cable, hawser, prob. from L. linea a linen thread, string, line, fr. linum flax, thread, linen, cable; but the English word was influenced by F. ligne line, from the same L. word linea. See {Linen}.] 1. A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
Who so layeth lines for to latch fowls. --Piers Plowman.
2. A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
3. The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
4. Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
5. A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
6. A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
7. (Poet.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa. --Broome.
8. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
He is uncommonly powerful in his own line, but it is not the line of a first-rate man. --Coleridge.
9. (Math.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
10. The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. --Milton.
11. A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
Though on his brow were graven lines austere. --Byron.
He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. --Cleveland.
12. Lineament; feature; figure. ``The lines of my boy's face.'' --Shak.
13. A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
Unite thy forces and attack their lines. --Dryden.
14. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
Of his lineage am I, and his offspring By very line, as of the stock real. --Chaucer.
15. A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
16. (Geog.) (a) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map. (b) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
17. A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
18. (Script.) (a) A measuring line or cord.
He marketh it out with a line. --Is. xliv. 13. (b) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. --Ps. xvi. 6. (c) Instruction; doctrine.
Their line is gone out through all the earth. --Ps. xix. 4.
19. (Mach.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
20. The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
21. (Mil.) (a) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to {column}. (b) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
22. (Fort.) (a) A trench or rampart. (b) pl. Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
23. pl. (Shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
24. (Mus.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
25. (Stock Exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
26. (Trade) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. --McElrath.
27. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
28. pl. The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver. [U. S.]
29. A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
{Hard lines}, hard lot. --C. Kingsley. [See Def. 18.]
{Line breeding} (Stockbreeding), breeding by a certain family line of descent, especially in the selection of the dam or mother.
{Line conch} (Zo["o]l.), a spiral marine shell ({Fasciolaria distans}), of Florida and the West Indies. It is marked by narrow, dark, revolving lines.
{Line engraving}. (a) Engraving in which the effects are produced by lines of different width and closeness, cut with the burin upon copper or similar material; also, a plate so engraved. (b) A picture produced by printing from such an engraving.
{Line of battle}. (a) (Mil. Tactics) The position of troops drawn up in their usual order without any determined maneuver. (b) (Naval) The line or arrangement formed by vessels of war in an engagement.
{Line of battle ship}. See {Ship of the line}, below.
{Line of beauty} (Fine Arts),an abstract line supposed to be beautiful in itself and absolutely; -- differently represented by different authors, often as a kind of elongated S (like the one drawn by Hogarth).
{Line of centers}. (Mach.) (a) A line joining two centers, or fulcra, as of wheels or levers. (b) A line which determines a dead center. See {Dead center}, under {Dead}.
{Line of dip} (Geol.), a line in the plane of a stratum, or part of a stratum, perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon.
{Line of fire} (Mil.), the direction of fire.
{Line of force} (Physics), any line in a space in which forces are acting, so drawn that at every point of the line its tangent is the direction of the resultant of all the forces. It cuts at right angles every equipotential surface which it meets. Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point. --Faraday.
{Line of life} (Palmistry), a line on the inside of the hand, curving about the base of the thumb, supposed to indicate, by its form or position, the length of a person's life.
{Line of lines}. See {Gunter's line}.
{Line of march}. (Mil.) (a) Arrangement of troops for marching. (b) Course or direction taken by an army or body of troops in marching.
{Line of operations}, that portion of a theater of war which an army passes over in attaining its object. --H. W. Halleck.
{Line of sight} (Firearms), the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object.
{Line tub} (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled.
{Mason and Dixon's line}, {Mason-Dixon line}, the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. In an extended sense, the line between the free and the slave States; as, below the Mason-Dixon line, i.e. in the South.
{On the line}, (a) on a level with the eye of the spectator; -- said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures. (b) at risk (dependent upon success) in a contest or enterprise; as, the survival of the company is on the line in this project.
{Right line}, a straight line; the shortest line that can be drawn between two points.
{Ship of the line}, formerly, a ship of war large enough to have a place in the line of battle; a vessel superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker; -- called also {line of battle ship} or {battleship}. --Totten.
{To cross the line}, to cross the equator, as a vessel at sea.
{To give a person line}, to allow him more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line.
{Water line} (Shipbuilding), the outline of a horizontal section of a vessel, as when floating in the water.
battleship \bat"tle*ship`\ (Nav.) [shortened from line-of-battle ship, i.e. the most heavily armored ship suited to be in the front line of a naval battle.] An armor-plated warship built of steel and heavily armed, generally having over ten thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to combat the heaviest enemy ships in line of battle; the most heavily armed and armored class of warship at any given time. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
The French battleship Jean D'Arc will sail to the United States and Puerto Rico in 1989, calling in at the ports of Pearl Harbor, San Francisco, New Orleans and Puerto Rico where the ship will be open to the public.
Paul Cross, JRN's director of special projects, had to look to Hollywood, Calif., to find companies to reproduce the battleship linoleum used on the cafe's floors and the wheel-etched glass that bore the colonel's name on the front of the building.
The Navy has halted repairs to the battleship USS Iowa's No. 2 turret amid speculation that the World War II ship would be mothballed.
And the battleship Missouri is to join the USS Wisconsin already in the gulf.
In the window is an oil painting of a 1930s battleship painted by Charles Robert Patterson.
The memorial spans the hull of the Ariozona battleship, which still flies the U.S. flag.
The memorial spans the hull of the battleship, which still flies the U.S. flag.
But in December Babcock Thorn submitted a proposal based instead on refurbishing battleship docks, which the company believes is being considered by the MoD on an equal footing with Devonport's scheme.
Fogarty, who once commanded the battleship New Jersey, is director of plans and policy for the Central Command, administrative headquarters for U.S. military affairs in 19 countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
The battleship Iowa and two other ships were withdrawn earlier from the U.S. task force operating in the Arabian Sea outside the gulf, in support of the navy's escort operations.
Last month the marine scientist led the search for the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of France.
At a news conference, family members said they believe the Navy's controversial conclusion that the battleship explosion was likely caused by sabotage by a disgruntled gunner's mate who died in the blast.
THE NAVY REOPENED its inquiry into the explosion aboard the battleship Iowa.
The USS Iowa's No. 1 gun turret had a misfire in one of its 16-inch guns shortly before the battleship's No. 2 turret exploded on April 19, killing 47 sailors, a survivor said.
Naval sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said budget concerns may have been a factor in replacing the Midway with a less costly battleship group.
The battleship was retired from service in 1949, then brought back for duty in the Korean War.
The commander of the USS Iowa has decided to retire from the Navy and someday may write about the turret explosion last April that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship.
The Navy, meanwhile, continued to defend its finding that a chemically ignited explosive device "most probably" was placed in the breech of one of the battleship's 16-inch guns to detonate the blast, which killed 47 sailors April 19.
Gulf was a battleship on a 40-acre lake.
The explosion occurred as the No. 2 gun, the middle gun of three in the second turret, was being loaded for firing practice while the battleship was near Puerto Rico.
Svend Ovesen, the pilot, said the Navy had told aircraft to stay 25 miles from the Iowa, but we moved in close for a better view. Our plane approached at 500 mph, then Ovesen lowered the landing gear and circled the battleship at 130 mph.
In a search of his home after the explosion, investigators found one of the burlap patches that gunners insert between bags of powder to clean the barrels of the battleship's huge guns during firing, the network said.
Enemy planes and artillery could not sink the battleship USS Iowa, but budget tightening and the costly damage left by a tragic explosion are sending the proud ship back into mothballs.
I waited and waited, but I knew." _ Leasa Thompson, wife of Jack E. Thompson Jr., upon learning her husband was one of 47 killed in an explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa.
The skipper of the USS Iowa will testify next Monday before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the April 19 blast that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship, the panel announced Monday.
Hartwig's family has said they do not believe the sailor could have taken his own life _ and those of 46 colleagues _ in the fiery April 19 blast aboard the World War II-era battleship.
Anti-nuclear activists buzzed around the U.S. battleship Iowa in rubber dinghies trying to keep it from anchoring in Kiel harbor on Sunday, but police dragged away the intruders, the activists said.
When the battleship Wisconsin heads for maintenance and repairs this summer, its powder charges _ 110-pound bags _ will not be stored aboard uncooled, unventilated barges as the Iowa's were, the newspaper reported in Sunday editions.
The worst Navy accident this year was the explosion in a turret of the battleship USS Iowa in April.
The battleship Wisconsin was to leave Norfolk, Va., too, joining the Eisenhower and the carrier Independence in the region.