lightship

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Recent Examples of lightship Privately, Peterson believed that the Valencia was likely past the lightship, nearing the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Longreads, 4 May 2023 All this means that the charming Bajoran lightship that Captain Sisko builds on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, depicted in the show as a medieval construction of metal and wood, is only feasible if the Bajoran sun were powerful enough to probably incinerate the entire space station in the first place. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2020 Outside, visitors can tour the lightship Columbia, which for three decades helped ships cross the Columbia Bar. oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020 This accommodation allows guests to sleep in a 70-year-old British lightship (which is essentially a lighthouse in boat form). Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020 The lightship is safely docked in the water, only minutes away from the city center. Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020 The couple, along with their two children, also live on the ship, according to the lightship’s website. Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2020 Shopping and sightseeing go hand-in-hand; galleries showcase local artists, boutiques sell high style and resort casual attire, emporiums carry distinctive lightship baskets. Danica Farley, Orange County Register, 17 July 2019 Former Massachusetts State Senator Bill Golden is selling his Nantucket lightship for $5.2 million. Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightship
Noun
  • In September of 1955, Marthe boards a steamship with two other fellows from France, both men, to make the five day trip across the Atlantic to Boston.
    Lorena Galliot, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2025
  • More-efficient steam engines were deployed in new factories, trains and steamships.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Under the city solicitation, the project would also include a new floating stage for performers to replace the converted barge that once hosted performers at the stadium.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
  • New England relies entirely on out-of-state fuel oil, which is primarily delivered by tankers, barges, pipelines, and trucks from the Midwest and Canada.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The researchers stipulate that the steamer basket of eggs must be dunked into the boiling water for two minutes, then into the lukewarm water for two minutes—a switch that’s to be repeated eight total times before you’re cleared to run them under cold water and peel off the shells.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
  • To steam: Line steamer basket with steamer paper and place prepared dumplings in a single layer in the basket, with 1 inch between each.
    Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The freighter encountered 35-foot waves, snow and winds at 51 mph with gusts up to 66 mph.
    Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting to free the freighter Yamal Krechet from ice which was preventing it from reaching the port of Sabetta, in the Kara Sea, according to an expert.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At its core, this is a painting about fading: H.M.S. Temeraire was a majestic old warship that had played an important part in the Battle of Trafalgar three decades earlier but, eventually, became militarily obsolete and had to be scrapped for parts.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The development of a drone-carrier warship could alter strategic calculations in the Persian Gulf and beyond. What to Know Manned by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard's navy, the Shahid Bagheri carries multiple squadrons of drones, helicopters, and cruise missiles.
    Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Life in Gaza has been sustained by intermittent convoys of water tankers and trucks with cargoes of plastic bottles.
    Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Recommended The Monitor's View A migrant debate cuts across the Americas When one such tanker was hit and destroyed, the battle group helped evacuate its Filipino crew to safety aboard the USS Eisenhower.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Plans call for two more such connections: one 400 kV, the other 225 kV. From these three sources, the collider’s infrastructure would distribute power to the collier’s eight access shafts; from there, it’d be distributed to the rest of the collider.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • This particular pearl collier can be spotted on Hepburn’s neck in the final scene of Roman Holiday.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2023

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“Lightship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightship. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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