nautical
IPA: nˈɔtʌkʌɫ
adjective
- Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
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Examples of "nautical" in Sentences
- The origin of the nautical term is obscure.
- The focus is on nautical and maritime history of the port.
- The nautical achievements of the Vikings were exceptional.
- She was the first president of the Nautical Archaeology Society.
- The group is the only company in the nautical world on the list.
- The names of many of the beers maintain a British nautical theme.
- The nautical centre of Kerguelen is the first school of sailing in France.
- The distance between knots depended on the definition of the nautical mile.
- I dressed myself in nautical rig, and went on deck to see all that I could.
- In the field of the nautical instruments, he improved the reflecting circle.
- The oar and the scythe represent the city's nautical and agricultural roots.
- Whilst we're in nautical mode, here's brave and how about this for actually having a dream and then living it?
- When the time is up, the number of “knots” fed out are counted to determine speed, thus the term for nautical miles per hour.
- Let us not judge Ashbery too quickly … I do find his taste in nautical nonsense quite creative, which leads me to believe there is a enough of a screw loose to warrant further investigation.
- People create ship designs for the game Pirates of the Burning Sea, researching in nautical museums, because they love to do it — some of them don’t even play the game; they just like to make ships.
- And whereas the cognitive tasks inherent in nautical, geographic, and ethnographic work demanded that one use his rational faculties, trips to Cathay required only that one possess a lively imagination.
- The orders transmitted to them (in nautical phrase) are amusingthey are playing an ugly tune, or a pretty one badly "Bid those follows take a reef in" or they suddenly stop "Ask those fellows why they have hove to," says the captain to the steward,
- [NYT] "By the way, before Cashill hit on his theory, I noted some eerie similarities between Dreams of My Father and the Horatio Hornblower novels of C.S. Forester, which also contain nautical references and are written on a high school level, but I gave up my investigation when I realized that Forrester died in 1966 and probably could not have written Obama's book."