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1. Prefix for a civilian "Steam Ship". 2. In the military, the two letter indicator for a submarine.
adj idiotic. You might describe your father’s plan to pioneer the first civilian moon landing using nothing but stuff he’d collected from a junkyard as “barmy.” Well, unless the junkyard he had in mind was out the back of Cape Kennedy and he had funding from China. It may or may not derive from the fact that there was once a psychiatric hospital in a place called Barming, near Maidstone in Kent, England. It may equally easily come from an Old English word for yeast, “barm,” intended to imply that the brain is fermenting. As these competing etymologies seem equally plausible, it seems only sensible to settle the matter in an old-fashioned fistfight.
Civilian clothing, often outlandish and colourful, that sailors will wear instead of their uniforms, but only on the rare occasions that this is allowed. One such occasion is often a ship's banyan.
Civilian is British criminal slang for someone who is neither criminal nor policeman.
When a civilian item is modified for Navy use.
Civilian life.
(Sidgee) Civilian Irregular Defense Group. Pg. 506
Bureau of Ships; Washington, D.C.; in charge of monitoring all Naval vessel activities, especially in regards to civilian contracts.
Refers to civilian clothes. Usually, it specifically refers to a sports jacket and tie.
A system that was occasionally employed in certain friendly ports where civilians would fill out contact cards that invited visiting sailors out for dates. A wide variety of fun could be had through this system.
A pair of fluid-filled, usually water, tanks mounted on opposite sides of a civilian ship below the waterline. Fluid would be pumped between them in an attempt to dampen the amount of roll.
A slang term for a civilian speedboat.
Dental Civilian Action Program. U.S.Militaty dental personnel went into the villes and tended to the dental problems and hygiene of the locals.
A civilian, especially one who has no clue about the military.
Slang for a civilian ship that spends all its time on the Great Lakes.
An old army term for your "civvies". Civilian clothes that is, rather than your uniform.
A civilian boat that comes alongside to sell merchandise.
A civilian dockyard worker.
The second officer of a civilian vessel. Also referred to as the Second Officer.
Identification Friend or Foe. An identification system that enables military and national (civilian air traffic control) radar systems to identify aircrafts as friendly and to determine their bearing and range from the interrogator. IFF is used by both military and civilian aircraft
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A civilian.
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A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
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One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
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One skilled in the civil law.
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A student of the civil law at a university or college.
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The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.
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A civilian; a carpetmonger.
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One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
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A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
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