NAVY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Navy mean? 

• NAVY (noun)
  The noun NAVY has 3 senses:

1. an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare

2. a dark shade of blue

3. the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces

  Familiarity information: NAVY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAVY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

naval forces; navy

Hypernyms ("navy" is a kind of...):

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

Meronyms (members of "navy"):

naval unit (a military unit that is part of a navy)

fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Domain member category:

broadside (the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship)

broadside (all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship)

station ((nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty)

Derivation:

naval (connected with or belonging to or used in a navy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dark shade of blue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dark blue; navy; navy blue

Hypernyms ("navy" is a kind of...):

blue; blueness (blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Navy; United States Navy; US Navy; USN

Hypernyms ("Navy" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "Navy"):

Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division; NAWCWPNS (the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems)

Naval Special Warfare; NSW (the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare)

Naval Surface Warfare Center; NSWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare)

Naval Underwater Warfare Center; NUWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems)

United States Naval Academy; US Naval Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Navy)

Office of Naval Intelligence; ONI (the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy)

Naval Research Laboratory; NRL (the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines)

Holonyms ("Navy" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

 Context examples 

Two Navy agents died trying to put out the fire.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

Wentworth; Captain Wentworth of the navy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“The Army or the Navy is the place for you, Jim,” said I.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The United States Navy confirmed the discovery.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

Diana's husband is a captain in the navy, a gallant officer and a good man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Intake of navy bean powder may have a beneficial effect on intestinal microflora.

(Navy Bean Powder, NCI Thesaurus)

If the chief constructor of the Navy desired to consult them, even he was forced to go to the Woolwich office for the purpose.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) will be in charge of operation and monitoring the satellite and will cooperate with the Army and Navy.

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)

“Do you know anything of my cousin's captain?” said Edmund; “Captain Marshall? You have a large acquaintance in the navy, I conclude?”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the "Red" and "Blue" books, Whitaker's Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and—it somehow gladdened my heart to see it—the Law List.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)