airplane carrier

American  

noun

1. an aircraft carrier.

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Example Sentences

Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Mayor James Gifford Newbegin of Tacoma, Wash., had cause last week to be glad he had remembered a statistic about the Navy's 33,000-ton airplane carrier Lexington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its rules: for every enemy battleship sunk by the U.S., the player buys $5 worth of defense stamps, for an airplane carrier $4, cruiser $3, destroyer $2, submarine $1, any other ship 50�.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Japanese colony was settled on land carefully chosen—long, level, flat acres which overnight can be turned into an air base for a fleet landed from an airplane carrier or assembled on the spot.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.