frigate

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English - Turkish
{i} yelkenli üç direkli savaş gemisi
fırkateyn
firkateyn
(Askeri) FIRKATEYN: Denizaltı, hava ve su üstü tehditlerine karşı tek başına veya vurucu kuvvet, denizaltı savunma harbi veya amfibi kuvvetlerle birlikte harekata katılan bir harp gemisi (Normal silahları, 3-5 inchlik çift maksatlı toplar ve gelişmiş denizaltısavar savaş silahlarıdır). FF olarak adlandırılır. Ayrıca bakınız: "guided missile frigate"
eski tipte bir savaş gemisi
1400 tonluk modern savaş gemisi
frigate bird çok uzun kanatlı bir deniz kuşu
i., den. firkateyn

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frigate bird
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) Fırkateyn kuşu, fregat kuşu, çok uzun kanatlı bir deniz kuşu
frigate bird
fregat kuşu
guided missile frigate
güdümlü roket gemisi
guided missile frigate
(Askeri) güdümlü füze atan fırkateyn
guided missile frigate
(Askeri) GÜDÜMLÜ MERMİLİ FIRKATEYN: 5"/54'lük top bataryası ve güdümlü mermiler ile teçhiz edilmiştir. FFG olarak isimlendirilir. Bak. "frigate"
navy fast frigate
(Askeri) deniz kuvvetleri hızlı fırkateyni
English - English
A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose
A 19th c. type of warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam propelled iron battleship
An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle
A frigate is a fairly small ship owned by the navy that can move at fast speeds. Frigates are often used to protect other ships. a small fast ship used especially for protecting other ships in wars (frégate, from fregata). Either of two different types of warships, of the 17th-19th centuries and of World War II and after. The sailing ship known as a frigate was a three-masted, fully rigged vessel, often carrying 30-40 guns in all. Smaller and faster than ships of the line, frigates served as scouts or as escorts protecting merchant convoys; they also cruised the seas as merchant raiders themselves. With the transition to steam, the term gradually gave way to cruiser. In World War II, Britain revived the term frigate to describe escort ships equipped with sonar and depth charges and used to guard convoys from submarines. In the postwar decades frigates also adopted an antiaircraft role, adding radar and surface-to-air missiles. Modern frigates may displace more than 3,000 tons (2,700 metric tons), sail at a speed of 30 knots, and carry a crew of 200
A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWI) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose
Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery
a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars
{i} type of ship, small warship
Any small vessel on the water
The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line
They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns
a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries

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frigate bird
(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) A predatory tropical seabird with dark plumage, long narrow wings, a deeply forked tail, and a long hooked bill. [Genus Fregata: five species.]
frigate mackerel
A small tropical tuna of the genus Auxis
frigate bird
Any of various tropical sea birds of the family Fregatidae that have long powerful wings, dark plumage, and a hooked beak and characteristically snatch food from other birds in flight. Also called man-o'-war bird. or man-o'-war bird Any member of five species of large seabirds constituting the family Fregatidae, found worldwide along tropical and semitropical coasts and islands. About the size of a hen, frigate birds have extremely long, slender wings, which span up to about 8 ft (2.3 m), and long, deeply forked tails. Most adult males are all black; most females are marked with white below. Both sexes have a bare-skinned throat pouch, tiny feet, and a long hooked bill that is used to attack and rob other seabirds of their fish. The courting male's throat pouch becomes bright red and is inflated to the size of a person's head. Perhaps the most aerial of all birds except the swifts, frigate birds land only to sleep or tend the nest
frigate bird
long-billed warm-water seabird with wide wingspan and forked tail
stone frigate
a shore establishment of the Royal Navy and some Commonwhealth navies
frigates
plural of frigate
guided missile frigate
a frigate that carries guided missiles
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