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light·ship

 (līt′shĭp′)
n.
A ship with a powerful light or warning signals that is anchored in dangerous waters to alert other vessels.
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lightship

(ˈlaɪtˌʃɪp)
n
(Nautical Terms) a ship equipped as a lighthouse and moored where a fixed structure would prove impracticable
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light•ship

(ˈlaɪtˌʃɪp)

n.
a ship anchored in a specific location and displaying a light or lights for the guidance of mariners.
[1830–40]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.lightship - a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticablelightship - a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
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Translations

lightship

[ˈlaɪtʃɪp] Nbuque-faro m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lightship

[ˈlaɪtʃɪp] nbateau-phare mlight show nspectacle m son et lumièrelights-out [ˌlaɪtsˈaʊt] nextinction f des feuxlight switch ninterrupteur m
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lightship

[ˈlaɪtˌʃɪp] nbattello m faro inv
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This ideal point of the estuary, this centre of memories, is marked upon the steely gray expanse of the waters by a lightship painted red that, from a couple of miles off, looks like a cheap and bizarre little toy.
Coming in from the eastward, the bright colouring of the lightship marking the part of the river committed to the charge of an Admiral(the Commander-in-Chief at the Nore) accentuates the dreariness and the great breadth of the Thames Estuary.
But where were the tugs and the lighters and the barges, the lightships and the buoys, and all those countless attributes which went to make up the myriad life of the ancient Thames?
Lightship Works develops mobile applications that combine updates from first responders and recovery agencies with data from infrastructure, weather services, sensors, and real-time tracking of people and equipment in order to provide a true common operating picture to facilitate decision-making during complex incidents.
Waterway manager at the Canal & River Trust, Chantelle Seaborn, said: "Removing the Lightship was the last thing we wanted to do but we were left with no choice.
The 50-year-old Goleulong 2000 lightship has been berthed in Cardiff Bay since 1993, welcoming up to 70,000 visitors and worshippers a year.
The Lightship Group is based in Orlando, in the US state of Florida.
For 39 years, the vessel guided transatlantic shipping from Nantucket Shoals lightship station to and from the U.S.
Planet was the last manned Mersey Bar lightship until 1972, and later the UK's last manned lightship when repositioned off the Channel Islands until withdrawn in 1989.
Charity trustee Bob Richmond said: "I'm now happy to confirm that we own the lightship.
He called his line the "Friendship Basket." Reyes' baskets sold initially for $15 to $25, and quickly became the standard for today's Nantucket Lightship Handbag Basket.
Soon after Lightship's inauguration, with its operations centered in Bedford, Zeitvogel and his staff realized they needed a system that allowed them to be more nimble in reacting to market demands while aggressively expanding.