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ship·yard

(shĭp′yärd′)

A yard where ships are built or repaired.

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shipyard

(ˈʃɪpˌjɑːd)

(Nautical Terms) a place or facility for the building, maintenance, and repair of ships

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ship•yard

(ˈʃɪpˌyɑrd)

n.

a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.

[1690–1700]

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Noun

shipyard - a workplace where ships are built or repaired

dry dock, drydock, graving dock - a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline

naval shipyard, navy yard - a military shipyard

shipway, slipway, ways - structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

workplace, work - a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"

Translations

تَرَسَانَةتَرسانَه، مكان بِناء السُّفُن

loděnice

skibsværft

telakka

brodogradilište

skipasmíîastöî

cantiere navale

造船所

조선소

skeppsvarv

อู่ซ่อมและต่อเรือ

tersane

xưởng đóng tàu

造船厂船坞

shipyard

[ˈʃɪpjɑːd] N → astillero m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

shipyard

[ˈʃɪpjɑː^rd] n → chantier m naval

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shipyard

[ˈʃɪpˌjɑːd] n → cantiere m navale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ship

(ʃip) noun

1. a large boat. The ship sank and all the passengers and crew were drowned.

2. any of certain types of transport that fly. a spaceship.

verb – past tense, past participle shipped –

to send or transport by ship. The books were shipped to Australia.

ˈshipment noun

1. a load of goods sent by sea. a shipment of wine from Portugal.

2. the sending of goods by sea.

ˈshipper noun

a person who arranges for goods to be shipped. a firm of shippers.

ˈshipping noun

ships taken as a whole. The harbour was full of shipping.

ˈship-broker noun

1. an agent whose job is to buy or sell ships.

2. an insurance agent for ships.

ˈshipbuilder noun

a person whose business is the construction of ships. a firm of shipbuilders.

ˈshipbuilding noun

ˈshipowner noun

a person or company that owns a ship or ships.

ˌshipˈshape adjective

in good order. She left everything shipshape in her room when she left.

ˈshipwreck noun

1. the accidental sinking or destruction of a ship. There were many shipwrecks on the rocky coast.

2. a wrecked ship. an old shipwreck on the shore.

verb

We were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.

ˈshipyard noun

a place where ships are built or repaired.

ship water

(of a boat) to let water in over the side. The boat shipped water and nearly capsized.

shipyard

→ تَرَسَانَة loděnice skibsværft Schiffswerft ναυπηγείο astillero telakka chantier naval brodogradilište cantiere navale 造船所 조선소 scheepswerf skipsverft stocznia estaleiro верфь skeppsvarv อู่ซ่อมและต่อเรือ tersane xưởng đóng tàu 造船厂

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He towed his ark around the Solano Wharf and into the big bight at Turner's Shipyard. The bight we knew to be good ground for sturgeon, and there we felt sure the King of the Greeks intended to begin operations.

"Big Alec has a Chinese line out in the bight off Turner's Shipyard," Charley Le Grant said that afternoon to Carmintel.

"Change places," Charley commanded, "and steer just astern of him as though you're going into the shipyard."

Fully a month had passed, and we were constantly up and down the river, and down and up the bay, with no spare moments to devote to the particular fisherman who ran a Chinese line in the bight of Turner's Shipyard. We had called in at Selby's Smelter one afternoon, while on patrol work, when all unknown to us our opportunity happened along.

As the bight at Turner's Shipyard opened out, Charley edged into it to get the smoother water.

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Below the town of Benicia, where the Solano wharf projects, the Straits widen out into what bay-farers call the "Bight of Turner's Shipyard." I was in the shore-tide that swept under the Solano wharf and on into the bight.

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It was a happy party that sailed north toward sunny, southern California, the old U-33 trailing in the wake of the Toreador and flying with the latter the glorious Stars and Stripes beneath which she had been born in the shipyard at Santa Monica.

And so they came one day to dock at the shipyard which Bowen Tyler now controlled, and here the U-33 still lies while those who passed so many eventful days within and because of her, have gone their various ways.

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When I looked again to horror was added chagrin, for with the emerging of the U-boat I had recognized her as a product of our own shipyard. I knew her to a rivet.

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But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.

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Following the fall of Phutra I visited Anoroc, where I found the people busy in the shipyards and the factories that Perry had established.

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The tide flooded smoothly under the full moon, and Saxon recognized the points they passed--the Transit slip, Sandy Beach, the shipyards, the nail works, Market street wharf.