(n.) One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) BMWs, Porsches and Land Cruisers meander through Luanda past beggars missing limbs due to the civil war or polio.
(4) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.
(5) It is clear Sayeed appears to operate with a measure of patronage from the Pakistani establishment and the Zardari government recently cleared the purchase of a bulletproof Land Cruiser for him.
(6) Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy carrying a toy pellet gun, was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in November last year, a mere two seconds after the police pulled up to him in their cruiser in a park.
(7) Vice-admiral Sir Tim McClement, who was responsible for co-ordinating a turning point in the war – the torpedo attack which sank Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano, with the loss of 323 lives – said he had no regrets.
(8) At 7am, the president was awoken and told that two units of the navy had rebelled at Valparaiso, controlling two of the country's three cruisers.
(9) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Permanent moorings can be difficult to find in London "because those who have them keep them" and so instead Haydock has a continuous cruiser licence, which means she has to move every two weeks.
(10) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
(11) Squad members continue to drive up and down the Lorengau road in their Land Cruisers several times a day.
(12) On Boston Common, state police cruisers were parked a row on the grass, while troops wearing camouflage and SWAT police officers carrying assault rifles and wearing helmets stood nearby.
(13) On Monday the state-run English-language channel, Russia Today, reported that Moscow would be sending the aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov, and two escort ships on a two-month tour of the Mediterranean and would be dropping in on the Syrian port of Tartus.
(14) The missile cruiser Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, is also on its way to the Syrian coast to lead the Russian force there.
(15) He never got on with his overbearing mother, Rosalind, but idealised his father Edward, who, as captain of the former passenger steamer Rawalpindi, had gone down with his ship and 263 men after the attack by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in November 1939.
(16) The US Pacific Fleet has said the cruiser USS Cowpens manoeuvred to avoid a collision while operating in international waters.
(17) During the EU referendum, Geldof commandeered a river boat cruiser to rival a Brexit flotilla headed by Ukip’s Nigel Farage, in one of the most surreal moments of the campaign nicknamed the “Battle of the Thames”.
(18) Other assets included a fleet of vehicles and a £345,000 Sunseeker Portofino cruiser he named Aesthete.
(19) In the Atlantic city of Mar del Plata, lyric tenor Darío Volonté, a survivor of the Belgrano, the cruiser on which 323 Argentinian sailors died after it was torpedoed by a British submarine, led a large crowd in the national anthem.
(20) In July Cleveland settled a federal lawsuit with the families of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams after they were killed in 2012 following a 20-mile car chase involving 62 police cruisers.
Frigate
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
(n.) Any small vessel on the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Gölcük naval base, a frigate was reportedly taken over by an unidentified anti-government group and the head of the Turkish fleet was held hostage, a Greek military source told Reuters.
(2) The workforce at BAE in Glasgow is second to none and the promises made to them must be honoured.” In last autumn’s defence review, the government announced it would order eight frigates instead of the original 13.
(3) In its recent decision to end Portsmouth’s role as a naval dockyard, the British government said recently that future warships - notably a new generation of frigates - would be built in Scotland only if Scotland remained part of Britain.
(4) Seven News reported that Australia had dispatched a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft and the Anzac-class frigate HMAS Stuart to monitor the four Russian ships, which were said to be in the Coral Sea south of Bougainville and heading towards Australian waters.
(5) Captain Jeremy Hill, commander of the American frigate USS Taylor, admits it is getting harder to distinguish between legitimate fishermen and the pirates.
(6) As well as the frigates and destroyers, the French have an Awacs surveillance plane in the area.
(7) I don’t think that will strike the public as the best way to keep us safe.” In other announcements, the government said eight Type-26 frigates will be built on the Clyde, nine new surveillance planes will be based at Lossiemouth in Scotland to counter Russian air and submarine activity around UK airspace and water, and the number of Typhoon aircraft is to be extended for an extra 10 years to 2040, meaning there will be a total of seven frontline squadrons, with about 12 planes per squadron.
(8) This will end the boom and bust which has occurred in terms of naval shipbuilding in this country.” Staged tender will take place for $20bn Collins class submarine replacement Read more Andrews’s spokesperson said $89bn was the expected total acquisition cost for Australia’s future submarine, future frigate and offshore patrol vessel programs.
(9) Portsmouth based engineers will be retained to support the design and development of the Type 26 frigate programme.
(10) The Clyde's won these contracts because it's the best place to build the frigates.
(11) A German frigate could help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean, from which fighter jets are carrying out bombing runs, and tanker aircraft could refuel them mid-air to extend their range, the defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week.
(12) Plans for a state-of-the-art “frigate factory” – which it had been hoped would help the yard win future export orders – also appear to have been shelved, and there are concerns that work promised to Scotland will be relocated to England.
(13) The defence secretary, Philip Hammond , recently said both yards would close – and contracts for the navy's next-generation Type 26 frigates would be lost – if Scotland voted for independence, as no UK government would pay a foreign shipyard to build its warships.
(14) The occupation comes after a nine-day stand-off between Greenpeace and the Danish navy, which has sent its frigate Vaedderen to the area, deploying elite Danish commandos on high-speed boats to patrol a 500m exclusion zone around the rigs.
(15) An attempt by militants to take over a Pakistani navy frigate in port in Karachi shortly after that announcement failed – but only just, western officials in Delhi said.
(16) But civilian coastguard patrols are struggling to fill the void left by the navy frigates that led operations for Mare Nostrum, said Flavio Di Giacomo, IOM’s spokesman in Italy .
(17) Russia then launched a search and rescue mission involving frigates and nuclear submarines to prevent the incident blowing up into an international scandal, it added.
(18) The number of destroyers and frigates will be cut from 23 to 19 and the navy will loose an amphibious landing vessel.
(19) The naval force, led by HMS Illustrious and including two frigates, will sail for the Mediterranean on Monday at the start of a four-month deployment.
(20) Argentina has complained to the UN of the UK's "militarisation" of the south Atlantic following news of the six-month deployment of Dauntless, which the Ministry of Defence has said is on routine mission taking over patrols from the frigate HMS Montrose.