mothership
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈmʌðərˌʃɪp/
- Specialized
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- Pirates began preying on other seafaring vessels, hijacking larger boats for use as "motherships" to go after bigger targets: internationally flagged commercial freighters and tankers hundreds of miles out at sea.
- mothership orbiting
- flying the mothership
- mothership has landed
I love the ET mothership and the close Encounters mothership.
- I love the ET mothership and the close Encounters mothership.
- So all rocket holders will receive a ticket to join the mothership in Earth orbit.
- And that these little UFO's that people see, they're part of the mothership.
- So there's no way any physical effect can happen on this explorer who goes off of the mothership and passes the event horizon right there.
- So when you look at it, actually the symbol on the Arcturion mothership, which is called Athena, is an alpha Chi Omega.
- I include the Millennium Falcon and E TS mothership in that in that in that list.
Examples
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"There's the mothership."
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I hugged them both, and the inspector took me with him to board the departing mothership.
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Look, all we have to do is get inside the mothership and try to stop them.
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We go up to the mothership.
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Only our species is capable of space travel on the Mothership.
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The mothership will be fetching him back soon.
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So all rocket holders will receive a ticket to join the mothership in Earth orbit.
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The astronauts will take a smaller spacecraft from the mothership down to the lunar surface.
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When it's time to return, the smaller craft will lift off from the surface and dock with the mothership, which will then power the crew back to Earth.
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The astronauts will take a smaller spacecraft from the mothership down to the lunar surface.
Synonyms
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6.3
A large warship with a flat deck for aircraft to take off and land
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3.8
A very large war ship with a long flat deck where military planes take off and land
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8.6
A large ship or spacecraft used as a main base and command center for smaller ships
Antonyms
- Specialized
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3.5
An artificial object placed in orbit to send information or gather data from space
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Etymology
Mothership comes from the simple words mother and ship. Imagine a large ship that carries little boats like a mother carries children: a 'mothership' is a big 'vessel' that carries, supplies, or controls smaller ships or craft, so the name shows its role as the main carrier.