单词 | sonarman |
释义 | > as lemmassonarman sonarman n. Navy (originally and chiefly U.S.) a person responsible for the operation and maintenance of sonar equipment; = sonar technician n. Now chiefly historical.In U.S. Navy use replaced by sonar technician (see sonar technician n.) from the 1960s. ΚΠ 1944 Bureau Naval Personnel Information Bull. May 22/3 Sonarman. Operates sound-detection equipment. 1962 J. A. Field Hist. U.S. Naval Operations vi. 159 The sonarmen on the destroyers were kept jumping by numerous contacts attributed to the whales. 2003 New Zealand Herald (Nexis) 1 Sept. The 19-year-old is a sonarman in the Navy. 2014 Daily News (Jacksonville, N. Carolina) 25 Apr. 32/3 World War II veteran Claude May said he will never forget his time spent in the U.S. Navy as a sonarman in the Pacific Ocean from 1943 until 1946. < as lemmas |
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