| 单词 | landing craft |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslanding craft landing craft n. a naval vessel with a shallow draught designed for landing troops, tanks, etc., in an amphibious assault; hence transferred in Astronautics, the section of a spacecraft which is used for the final descent to the surface of a planet or moon. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > module or capsule landing craft1940 ferry1951 capsule1954 space capsule1954 module1961 service module1961 Lem1962 moonbug1963 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores > landing craft well-boat1690 horse-boat1907 tank landing lighter1917 landing craft1940 Siebel ferry1942 tank landing ship1942 landing ship1943 storm boat1945 1940 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1949) II. 593 Great efforts should be made to produce the landing-craft as soon as possible. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 32 Two landing craft were sent ashore with reconnaissance parties. 1943 Combined Operations ii. 17 Landing craft are carried by infantry landing ships, originally known as assault ships. 1953 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 12 275 The landing craft (a small supplementary vehicle designed for vertical descent with rocket braking, carried to the destination by the parent spaceship). 1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound vii. 144 Landing-craft of all kinds poured out their cargo upon the beaches. 1966 D. Holbrook Flesh Wounds 93 Three thousand landing craft were ready to move out of all the ports all along the coast, from Falmouth to Harwich. 1969 Times 21 July 8/2 At 1,500 ft., the astronauts slowed the landing craft and brought it gently down four miles off the scheduled target in the Sea of Tranquillity. < as lemmas |
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