What's the difference between naval and navy?

Naval


Definition:

  • (a.) Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fifty-five myopic naval personnel with no previous contact lens experience were put through a three-week study using these contact lenses.
  • (2) The announcement came two days after US-led naval exercises started in the Gulf.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) For the treatment of systemic HSV-1 infection in Naval Medical Research Institute mice, a single oral dose per day of 5 mg of CEDU per kg achieved a significant reduction in the mortality rate.
  • (5) Chinese naval ships recently showed up off the Aleutian islands during an Obama visit to Alaska, the mineral-rich Arctic being another possible theatre.
  • (6) And that requires a big military commitment to protect refugees from attacks.” During Monday afternoon’s two-hour meeting, the US president and the four EU national leaders are also likely to discuss stemming the flow of migrants from Libya by placing EU naval patrols in Libyan waters.
  • (7) An additional 2,900 BAE staff are employed in the Portsmouth area on tasks that include maintaining, servicing and upgrading the Royal Navy ships at the naval base.
  • (8) US defence officials say the new base, which is expected to cost at least $8.6bn (£6bn), is an essential part of the White House’s strategic “pivot” towards the Asia-Pacific, amid rising concern over Chinese naval activity in the region and North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes.
  • (9) CND costs The Vanguard-class fleet operates out of the deep-water naval base at Faslane on the Clyde, but also makes use of the US navy’s base at Kings Bay in Georgia.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) A member of the CGT union at the naval construction company STX said locals were between a rock and a hard place.
  • (12) Abbott continued: "Do you believe Australian naval personnel or do you believe people who were attempting to break Australian law?"
  • (13) The plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval base commander in Portsmouth.
  • (14) In an attempt to discourage potential migrants, European ministers cancelled a naval operation aimed at rescuing stricken smugglers’ boats.
  • (15) He said Iran's enemies had understood the message of the naval exercises, saying: "We have no plan to begin any irrational act but we are ready against any threat."
  • (16) The naval confrontation was the most serious incident between the two navies since 2009, when Chinese ships and planes repeatedly harassed the US ocean surveillance vessel USNS Impeccable in the South China Sea.
  • (17) A review of death certificates in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts for 1959-77 yielded a total of 1722 deaths among former workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard where nuclear submarines are repaired and refuelled.
  • (18) The US has also pledged $86m towards upgrading Mexico’s checkpoints, roadblocks and naval bases.
  • (19) Two military doctors testified on Wednesday, describing the treatment of Bales' victims, including a young girl who had been shot in the head and who spent three months undergoing surgeries and rehabilitation at a naval hospital in San Diego, relearning how to walk.
  • (20) The escort ship would not be a naval one, the source added.

Navy


Definition:

  • (n.) A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.
  • (n.) The whole of the war vessels belonging to a nation or ruler, considered collectively; as, the navy of Italy.
  • (n.) The officers and men attached to the war vessels of a nation; as, he belongs to the navy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Melanoma is the second most common cancer, after testicular cancer, in males in the U.S. Navy.
  • (2) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
  • (3) Because many individuals begin smoking soon after joining the Navy, effective prevention programs need to be implemented in recruit training and repeated in early training schools.
  • (4) As aircraft capable of sustaining high "G" maneuvers enter the U.S. Navy Fleet, the reported incidence of cervical injury to aircrew seems to have increased.
  • (5) India will have three carriers and both China and India are building blue-water [ocean-going] navies.
  • (6) The simplicity of the Navy method for treating cholera makes it well suited for use in epidemics in populations with no experience in cholera.
  • (7) Tallents's two children haven't exactly rebelled and joined the navy; one is involved in direct action, but he has chosen climate change.
  • (8) Two weeks after his forced dismissal, several colleagues threw a going-away party for the retired marine officer at the Army-Navy Club on Farragut Square, a few blocks from the White House.
  • (9) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
  • (10) Using automatic and observer-operated equipment for monitoring thermal data, observations have been made during Royal Navy Wessex 5 helicopter operations in a sub-Arctic climate.
  • (11) Founded by the former US Navy Seal Erik Prince, Blackwater seized on the burgeoning private security contracts that emerged after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
  • (12) The US navy regularly patrols the Asia-Pacific region, conducting joint exercises with its allies and training in the strategic region.
  • (13) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
  • (14) They punished three of them, three of them ... so they would never want to go to the toilet again,‘‘ Fasher said, who was on the navy vessel at the time.
  • (15) The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, told the Australian the Snowden and navy stories were "counterproductive to our interests" and in another interview questioned whether the ABC's contract to operate overseas news channel the Australia Network was providing value for money.
  • (16) The Associated Press quoted a US security source as saying the Somali raid was carried out by members of the same navy Seal team that killed the al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden.
  • (17) He has appointed Tory MP Andrew Murrison, a former Royal Navy medical officer, as his special representative for the remembrance.
  • (18) Bahrain, meanwhile, is picking up the lion’s share of the bill for the construction of a Royal Navy base, the Mina Salman support facility, which will include warehouses, a 300-metre jetty, accommodation, sports pitch and helipad.
  • (19) Commercial ships have played an important role in rescue operations, responding both to the calls of migrant ships that are in distress and requests for help from the Italian coastguard and navy.
  • (20) Illness incidence was examined aboard U.S. Navy vessels to ascertain whether sick call rates vary with ship size.