;Posted on 04/16/2014 5:12:50 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2014-- dreadnought
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
dreadnought [ dred-nawt]
noun
1. a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets.
2. an outer garment of heavy woolen cloth.
3. a thick cloth with a long pile.
4. (slang) a heavyweight boxer
5. a person who fears nothing
Origin: From the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
1800–10; dread + nought (fear nothing)
Related forms
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Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Not often that we get snow after Tax Day.
Any discussion of HMS Dreadnought will need to reference her creator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot “Jacky” Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,[3] GCB OM GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920) was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson.
He was a driving force behind the development of the fast, all-big-gun battleship, and chaired the Committee on Designs which produced the outline design for the first modern battleship, HMS Dreadnought.
It's also the name of a Vancouver folk-punk band that also does Celtic, polkas and sea shanties...here's one of the latter about the clipper ship by that name...
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Very clever!
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Another excellent contribution today.
That is great!
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Excellent!
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Neat!
Very good to hear him answer unashamedly. And he sounds EXACTLY like xs teen’s friend Mary Liz, as far as accent !
The introduction, of critical theory, in any endeavor, is putrid.
And race based is putrid squared.
At some point the original competitors should have asked, when the debate became about critical theory as applied to debate, and had them explain the question.
They eat the marxist pablum,without knowing what it is.
Soylent Green...it’s....HUMANS... Fcol.
These days, I need to pretend I’m a shot of whiskey, to hope for a beer chaser....
Malkin slides across the net, no contact...draws a cross checking foul? Really?
This is looking like last years Islanders series.
“Build them First and Build Them Fast. Each One Better than the Last”- Admiral Fisher.
I do.
And thoroughly fouled up his Navy’s best chance of actually getting a fire-control system that really worked!
Went with the “Navy-approved experts” ... Instead of the better system
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