Marine
[mə'riːn] or [mə'rin]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the United States Marine Corps.
(noun.) a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land.
(adj.) native to or inhabiting the sea; 'marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea .
(adj.) of or relating to the sea; 'marine explorations' .
(adj.) of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps); 'marine barracks' .
Typed by Leigh--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
(a.) Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.
(a.) A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.
(a.) The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.
(a.) A picture representing some marine subject.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Oceanic, pelagic, of the sea.[2]. Maritime, naval, nautical.
n. [1]. Navy, shipping, sea affairs.[2]. Soldier (of a ship of war).
Typed by Jeanette
Definition
adj. of or belonging to the sea: done at sea: representing the sea: near the sea.—n. a soldier serving on shipboard: the whole navy of a country or state: naval affairs: a sea-piece in painting.—ns. Mar′igraph a self-registering tide-gauge; Marinade′ a liquor or pickle in which fish or meat is steeped before cooking to improve the flavour.—v.t. Mar′inate to salt or pickle.—n. Mar′iner a seaman or sailor: one who assists in navigating ships.—Marine acid hydrochloric acid; Marine boiler a boiler fitted for use in steamships; Marine engine an engine fitted for use in a steamship; Marine insurance insurance of ships or their cargoes when at sea; Marine soap a kind of coconut-oil soap adapted for washing with sea-water; Marine store a place where old ships' materials are bought and sold.—Tell that to the marines a phrase expressive of disbelief and ridicule from the sailor's contempt for the marine's ignorance of seamanship.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- The marine-store merchant holds the light, and the law-stationer conducts the search. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness to a distance of 660 geographical miles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The latest achievement in marine architecture, however, is the Deutschland, built for the Hamburg-American Company. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Such boilers are adapted for portable stationary engines, locomotives, fire and marine engines, and the fire is built within the boiler frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By the year 1880 the standard form of marine engine for large powers had become the compound double cylinder type, expanding steam from an initial pressure as high as 90 pounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The commodities chiefly exposed for sale in the public streets are marine stores, hard-bake, apples, flat-fish, and oysters. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By means of the brilliancy of the lamps marine animals in the lower depths were attracted and then easily ensnared. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Is your sea-shore here considered a fine specimen of marine landscape, Mr. Betteredge? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-store shops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby's, in preference to the regular dealers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The same authority estimated the total horse power of steam vessels in the merchant marine of the world in 1895 to be 12,005,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Marine glue is a cement made by dissolving India rubber in oil of turpentine or coal-naphtha, to which an equal quantity of shellac is added. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The horse-marine, who had entered with the sort of strut which became a commander-in-chief of No. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The gentleman who keeps her is a captain of horse-marines. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I only know that I believe to this hour that he WAS in the Marines once upon a time, without knowing why. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Porter landed a force of sailors and marines to move against the sea-front in co-operation with Ames's assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These sailors and marines had worked their way up to within a couple of hundred yards of the fort before the assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Terrence