(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.
Wavy
Definition:
(a.) Rising or swelling in waves; full of waves.
(a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames.
(a.) Undulating on the border or surface; waved.
Example Sentences:
(1) In MTC cases, a strong labelling was present over two types of aggregates: one composed of rigid, criss-crossing fibrils 7-10 nm in diameter, suggestive of amyloid, and the other consisting of loosely arranged fibrils, 4-7 nm in width, often wavy or poorly defined.
(2) Wavy fiber and colliquative myocytolysis of non-specific ischemic lesions were seen only microscopically in both peripheral and subendocardial areas of infarcted foci.
(3) Moreover, the basement membrane of the seminiferous tubule showed wavy lamellae and infolding to the seminiferous epithelium.
(4) Twenty three dogs were subjected to periods of ischemia, from 30 minutes to 4 hours; wavy fibers were present in 87% and 91% of the ischemic and non-ischemic samples respectively.
(5) A wavy arrangement of mitochondria, fragmentation and stacks of mitochondrial cristae were observed in 20-week-old SHR.
(6) The lines then take on a wavy and oscillating appearance, which is followed by scintillation of the pattern.
(7) Hunter-Schreger bands of cats circumscribed the teeth in relatively straight segments, but these bands showed pronounced waviness in dog teeth.
(8) The outer membrane appeared wavy with distortion of its tripartite structure.
(9) The collagenous fibers were arranged in longitudinal bundles, straight when stretched and wavy when unstretched, with a delicate network of fine elastic fibers coursing in all directions.
(10) We conclude that a rapidly growing renal mass in a young patient (less than 35 years old) that is shown to be complex and cystic by CT or sonography and that is hypovascular with fine, wavy neovascularity on arteriography is suggestive of adult Wilms tumor (75-80%).
(11) Although no characteristic findings indicative of neurogenic differentiation could be confirmed with anti-S-100-protein, a fair number of positive cells were seen in the area where the tumor cells were loosely arranged and displayed a wavy pattern.
(12) The first mesothelial mitoses appeared: in the first series (I) of experiments - in 24 h, in the second series (II) of experiments - 21 h. Further, proliferation of the mesothelium appeared in different parts of the tissue with various intencity and was of wavy character.
(13) The literature concerning these effects is reviewed and several experiments are reported which examined the apparent waviness and scintillating disappearances.
(14) And I don't mean being a wavy-haired, wealthy francophone from Massachusetts (although, in this climate, that's burden enough for a Republican nominee).
(15) HII is the more recently described multibranched, wavy-axoned horizontal cell.
(16) In addition to severe atrophy and degeneration of the generalized striated muscles and many foci of laminar necrosis of the cerebral cortex, the following abnormalities were observed: 1) hypertrophy of the myocardium, 2) fatty change of the liver, 3) focal sclerosis of the glomeruli and dilatation of the tubules of the kidneys, 4) hyalinous degeneration of the Langerhans' islands of the pancreas and 5) wavy change of the smooth muscle fibers of the muscularis propria of the gastrointestinal tract.
(17) The change most characteristic of the senescence of the retinal pigment epithelium was found to be the appearance of wavy undulating 12nm wide filaments having a periodicity of about 80nm after the 12th month.
(18) The wavy suture ring of the prosthesis makes it "low profile".
(19) Ultrastructurally, the primary cyst wall shows sloping villi with irregular wavy outlines.
(20) The wavy character of sympathectomy is thought to reflect integral behavior of the nervous cells subpopulation in the course of development of homeostatic reactions.