Definizione monolingua

navy

navy (plural navies)

1. A countrys entire sea force, including ships and personnel.
2. A governmental department in charge of a countrys sea force.
3. A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

   navy colour:

navy (comparative more navy, superlative most navy)

1. Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.
   • 2006, Samantha Hunt, The Seas: A Novel, page 57:

     The cover is as navy as a bruise.

   • 2006, Carol Marinelli, Taken for His Pleasure, page 26:

     The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face.

2. Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.
   • 1943, Fletcher Pratt, The Navy has wings, page 167:

     [...] there are chess ships and checker ships and those where acey-deucey is almost the only game, the sailors own improved version of backgammon. Fliers from the seacoast of Iowa, anxious to be as navy as the rest, are usually the first to pick it up.

   • 1993, Robert A. Frezza, McLendons Syndrome, page 299:

     Lieutenant Lindquist is navy through and through. I know she doesnt want to get out. Now, I know theres no way you can assign her to a navy ship, but there has to be something the navy can give her to keep her in space.

   • 1994, Harry Carey, Company of heroes: my life as an actor in the John Ford stock company, page 76:

     It was not what you would picture as a typical meeting with a naval officer. In fact, it was about as navy as an Abbott and Costello movie.

   • 2003, Jedwin Smith, Fatal treasure: greed and death, emeralds and gold, page 88:

     He was navy through and through; no-nonsense, humorless, and all spit and polish—every hair in its place, every thought gleaned from the manual compiled by brilliant sea dogs of long ago.

   • 2003, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H Moorer, The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story, page 21:

     Goodwin was navy through and through.

Definizione dizionario navy

	marina
	sea force

	marina militare
	A country's entire sea force, including ships and personnel.

blu scuro

flotta

marineria

Altri significati:

Having a navy colour

A dark blue colour, usually called navy blue.

navy colour:

department

navy blue colour

Belonging to the navy

A governmental department in charge of a country's sea force.

Belonging to the navy; typical of the navy.

Having the dark blue colour of navy blue.