navy

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see also ARMY, AIR FORCE, BOAT, WAR
- the part of a country's armed forces that uses ships for fighting wars: navy; adjective: naval
The Royal Navy (= the British navy)
a naval officer
- a person who gives orders to others in the navy, army, air force, etc: officer
- an officer of high rank in the navy: admiral
- the officer who is in charge of a ship: captain
- a soldier who is trained to fight on land or at sea: marine
- all the people who work on a ship: crew (with singular or plural verb)
- a member of the crew of a ship: sailor
- a ship for use in war: warship
- a group of warships: fleet
- a centre from where the navy operates: naval base
- large types of warship: battleship, cruiser
- smaller types of warship: frigate, destroyer
- a ship that carries military aircraft: aircraft carrier
- a type of boat that can travel under water and on the surface: submarine
- a device on a submarine through which you can see the area above: periscope
- a bomb shaped like a tube that is fired from a submarine and can travel underwater: torpedo (plural torpedoes)
- (used about submarines) to go down under the water: dive, submerge
- to come to the surface of the water: surface
The submarine surfaced after thirty days underwater.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  United States Navy, US Navy, USN, Navy, dark blue, navy blue, naval forces