lightship
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- noun
- /ˈlaɪtʃɪp/
- Archaic
:
barco faro
- "Andrei, the lightship we saw launched tonight will sail for fifty-five years to a star that is called Alpha Centauri.
Examples
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Pollock lightship, CG-36500, do you copy?
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Proceed to the Pollock lightship and unload all survivors.
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Catch a ride back out to my lightship.
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Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone.
Academic text (2012) -
Pollock lightship, CG-36500, do you copy?
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Negative, 36500, this is the Pollock lightship.
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Seaman Ervin Maske, Stonehorse lightship.
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"Andrei, Grandpa and Grandma are in rejuvenation chambers on that lightship, and they are traveling toward Alpha Centauri at 8 percent of lightspeed."
Fiction book (2002) -
Because of the great number of lighthouses, lightships, and lighted buoys along the coast, and the number of new lights constructed with each passing year, many lights are indistinguishable from one another; and the captain of a trade vessel returning from the Far East may easily mistake the light at one port for the light at a nearby port and thus run aground, losing the cargo he has brought from some distant harbor.
Fiction book (1999) -
The lightship was anchored offshore, guiding vessels safely through the dangerous waters.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lightship combines the everyday words light and ship and originally named a ship that carried a light meaning 'beacon' and stayed in one place to mark dangerous waters where a lighthouse could not be built. So, a lightship is like a 'floating lighthouse' that warns other ships.