Nautical

Word NAUTICAL
Character 8
Hyphenation nau tic al
Pronunciations /ˈnɔːtɪkl̩/

Definitions and meanings of "Nautical"

What do we mean by nautical?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of ships, shipping, sailors, or navigation on a body of water. adjective

Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation: as, nautical skill. Abbreviated nautical

Synonyms Marine, Naval, etc. See maritime.

Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships. adjective

See under Almanac. adjective

The length in nautical miles of the rhumb line joining any two places on the earth's surface. adjective

See under Mile. adjective

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen. adjective

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen adjective

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nautical

The word "nautical" in example sentences

[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." ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Whilst we're in nautical mode, here's brave and how about this for actually having a dream and then living it? ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

When the time is up, the number of “knots” fed out are counted to determine speed, thus the term for nautical miles per hour. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)

I dressed myself in nautical rig, and went on deck to see all that I could. ❋ William Henry Burton Wilkins (1897)

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, ❋ Unknown (1832)

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. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

They are called nautical shells, and they will explode on the surface of the water instead of in the sky. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They're called nautical shells and they'll explode on the surface of the water instead of in the sky. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The light level was what meteorologists and sailors called nautical twilight. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1986)

Mr. Gibney shook himself loose from that frantic grip and continued his pull on the whistle until the _Maggie_, taking a false note, quavered, moaned, spat steam a minute, and subsided with what might be termed a nautical sob. ❋ Gordon [Illustrator] Grant (1918)

The appearance of the fellow whom Mr. Pash called the nautical gentleman certainly was strange, and led many people to believe that robbery was the motive for the commission of the crime. ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)

Spetza, and Psara, the so-called nautical islands, the supremacy of the ❋ Charles Alan Fyffe (1868)

Frank had finished his drawing, and added it to a portfolio which was already well filled, he fired a shot to recall his nautical comrade and the vaquero. ❋ Unknown (1859)

I must not enter very minutely into what may be called the nautical particulars of the voyage, interesting as they were to me. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

At once comfortable and sophisticated, the setting is an oddly incongruous sea of chocolatey dark woods, ropes, shiny port holes and curvy booths that might best be describe as nautical Goth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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