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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2014-- dreadnought

Posted on 04/16/2014 5:12:50 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 16, 2014-- dreadnought

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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]

hear it pronounced

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

dreadnaught

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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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

81 posted on 04/16/2014 11:32:37 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: tioga

A++
Not often that we get snow after Tax Day.


82 posted on 04/16/2014 11:35:45 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree; KC_Lion; Robert A. Cook, PE

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.


83 posted on 04/16/2014 11:37:57 AM PDT by abb
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To: Texan5; xsmommy; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; secret garden
How about a little class competition? pick your weapon!
84 posted on 04/16/2014 11:38:46 AM PDT by tioga
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
This was the original Dreadnought - wasn't even a military vessel, it was a clipper ship and the fastest ship in the world at the time. Sandy Hook to Liverpool in 10 days. Unbelievable.

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...

The Dreadnought.

:-)

85 posted on 04/16/2014 11:39:42 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

86 posted on 04/16/2014 11:40:46 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Very clever!


87 posted on 04/16/2014 11:48:22 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: abb

A+++
Another excellent contribution today.


88 posted on 04/16/2014 11:52:18 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: tioga

That is great!


89 posted on 04/16/2014 11:54:42 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: Billthedrill

A+++
Excellent!


90 posted on 04/16/2014 12:00:51 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: dfwgator

A++
Neat!


91 posted on 04/16/2014 12:03:59 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: Texan5; SoothingDave; xsmommy
Wow, Bono believes. ....I am impressed with him.
92 posted on 04/16/2014 1:13:39 PM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Very good to hear him answer unashamedly. And he sounds EXACTLY like xs teen’s friend Mary Liz, as far as accent !


93 posted on 04/16/2014 1:57:07 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; TruthShallSetYouFree; hobbes1; SoothingDave; Texan5
What is debate anyway? Talk amongst yourselves.
94 posted on 04/16/2014 3:51:39 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

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.


95 posted on 04/16/2014 4:27:00 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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To: SoothingDave

These days, I need to pretend I’m a shot of whiskey, to hope for a beer chaser....


96 posted on 04/16/2014 4:29:05 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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To: xsmommy; SoothingDave

Malkin slides across the net, no contact...draws a cross checking foul? Really?

This is looking like last years Islanders series.


97 posted on 04/16/2014 5:18:07 PM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"yo)
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To: abb; TruthShallSetYouFree; Robert A. Cook, PE

“Build them First and Build Them Fast. Each One Better than the Last”- Admiral Fisher.


98 posted on 04/16/2014 8:08:03 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: SoothingDave

I do.


99 posted on 04/16/2014 8:51:43 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: abb; TruthShallSetYouFree; KC_Lion; hobbes1; neverdem

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


100 posted on 04/17/2014 1:55:41 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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