aircraft carrier

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noun

a warship equipped with a large open deck for the taking off and landing of warplanes and with facilities to carry, service, and arm them.

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Origin of aircraft carrier

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby aircraft carrier

air-core, Air Corps, air corridor, air cover, aircraft, aircraft carrier, aircraft cloth, aircraftman, aircraftsman, aircraftswoman, aircrew

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How to use aircraft carrier in a sentence

Some of us are sitting on aircraft carriers while others are just bobbing along on a floatie.
Postcard From Thermal: Surviving the Climate Gap in Eastern Coachella Valley|by Elizabeth Weil and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons|August 17, 2021|ProPublica
Just know that changing the school district is like turning an aircraft carrier.
American Schools Are Failing to Equip Students With Racial Literacy—And We've Seen Firsthand How It Happens|Priya Vulchi|August 13, 2021|Time
She said she was 17 when she first took the oath to “defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic” and had done that by serving on aircraft carriers in the Middle East, launching strikes against terrorist targets.
Reps. Raskin, Luria to serve on committee probing Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol|Meagan Flynn|July 1, 2021|Washington Post
I’ve sailed through the Suez Canal many times—as a junior officer, a captain of a destroyer, a commodore in command of a group of destroyers, and as a strike group commander on the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise.
The Blocked Suez Canal Isn't the Only Waterway the World Should Be Worried About|James Stavridis|March 29, 2021|Time

Following graduation in 1971, Combs served in the US Navy for a period that included two tours on an aircraft carrier in combat waters off Vietnam.
Retired rear admiral equips the pandemic’s frontline fighters|Katie McLean|February 24, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been dispatched to the Persian Gulf.
U.S. Taps Old Allies for New Iraq War|Eli Lake|June 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And maybe that video of George W. Bush strutting around on an aircraft carrier in his flight suit.
Want To Know What America Thinks of Itself? Watch Jack Ryan on Wall Street|Andrew Romano|January 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On Thursday, the relief effort intensified with the arrival of an American aircraft carrier group just offshore.
Typhoon Haiyan: The Philippine Village that Lost Its Men|The Telegraph|November 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He spoke as the US Navy said that its aircraft carrier the USS George Washington arrived to help the relief effort.
Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban Leaders Calls on Rebels to Avoid Armed Violence|The Telegraph|November 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That dance does more harm to the Republic than an aircraft carrier full of Randy “Duke” Cunninghams ever could.
Congressmen Come and Go, but Corruption Is Here to Stay|Lawrence Lessig|June 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Next day an aircraft carrier put out of Naples with an escort of destroyers.
The Invaders|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Ill be ready to sail in a month or two, on an aircraft carrier.
Sally Scott of the Waves|Roy J. Snell
Minutes later, the two boys embarked in a motor launch that took them to an aircraft carrier standing by in the vicinity.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung|Victor Appleton
They were met by bombs from every plane the aircraft carrier could muster and from thirty land bombers as well.
Sally Scott of the Waves|Roy J. Snell
The speedy aircraft carrier seemed to fairly leap along, carrying her home to America.
Sally Scott of the Waves|Roy J. Snell

British Dictionary definitions for aircraft carrier

aircraft carrier

noun

a warship built with an extensive flat deck space for the launch and recovery of aircraft

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