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TRANSPORT SHIP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transport ship mean?
• TRANSPORT SHIP (noun)
The noun TRANSPORT SHIP has 1 sense:
1. a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment
Familiarity information: TRANSPORT SHIP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("transport ship" is a kind of...):
ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Context examples
The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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