What's the difference between nave and navy?

Nave


Definition:

  • (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
  • (n.) The navel.
  • (n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
  • (2) The list includes Refaii Hamo, a Syrian refugee who arrived in Detroit in December, and Saudi-American army veteran Naveed Shah, reflections of the president’s effort to resettle 10,000 refugees and his opposition to anti-Muslim sentiment .
  • (3) The chapel, where in the last series Sister Bernadette struggled to reconcile her vocation with her love for widowed GP Dr Turner, is being turned into a spectacular four-bedroom, four-bathroom flat, using the central nave and west cloister corridor lit by a glass atrium.
  • (4) Brother Naveed posts YouTube video showing boxes of special food family bought online for Ashya and a power charger for his feeding unit and strenuously denies any allegations of neglect.
  • (5) Miliband, who employed Khan as shadow justice secretary when he was the party’s leader, was on the front row of the nave.
  • (6) Naveed wrote on Facebook to accompany the video: “Pictures and words can only go so far.
  • (7) She stared while moonlight got past the clouds to the holed and broken walls, onto a low newer church inside the nave of the old.
  • (8) Naveed, 32, who works in IT in Manchester, recalls one girl who had one fake profile she used to attract men initially, before showing them her real profile.
  • (9) The temple originally had a sunken nave flanked by seven symbolic pairs of pillars leading to the altar, a ritual well and raised seating on either side.
  • (10) said Tahir Naveed Chaudhary, chairman of the Pakistan Minorities Alliance.
  • (11) When the Dalai Lama came to collect his cheque at a ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral, eight Buddhist monks sat chanting in front of the high altar as the nave filled up.
  • (12) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
  • (13) A woman at the back of the nave shouted something inaudible but clearly theological and angry.
  • (14) The eldest, Naveed, 23, is a pharmacist in the local area whose wife is due to give birth imminently to the family's first grandchild.
  • (15) The nave of the minster was filled, but the side aisles were lined with empty chairs.
  • (16) But in the press gallery, where we could not see the subtitles projected on screens around the nave, it was only the giggles that were clearly audible.
  • (17) In an earlier version we incorrectly attributed comments by Marie-Cécile Naves to another analyst, Virginie Martin.
  • (18) Winner Sardar Naveed Haider: “Whatever happened during the election was bad, but it’s in the past now.
  • (19) In the nave are two rows of columns – 22 in all – that were taken from ancient Roman sites.
  • (20) Further down the nave, another marker signals the best vantage point for a second bit of trickery.

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.