With frigate birds swooping above and the high-speed dorado slicing through the water below, flying fish are, literally, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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Frigate
Synonyms for "frigate" (14 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesMore specific
2 entriesarmored frigateguided missile frigate
Collocations
6 entriesfrigate captainfrigate crewfrigate warfaremodern frigatenaval frigatesailing frigate
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 37 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- fregatë noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Arabic
1 entries- فِرْقَاطَة noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Belarusian
1 entries- фрэга́т noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фрега́та noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Catalan
1 entries- fragata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 巡防艦 /巡防舰 noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- 護衛艦 /护卫舰 noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Czech
1 entries- fregata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Dalmatian
4 entries- bregada noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- frigada noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- frègāda noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- frègāta noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Danish
1 entries- fregat noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Dutch
1 entries- fregat noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Finnish
1 entries- fregatti noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
French
1 entries- frégate noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Galician
2 entries- fargata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- fragata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Georgian
4 entries- საგუშაგო გემი noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- საგუშაგო ხომალდი noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- სადარაჯო გემი noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- სადარაჯო ხომალდი noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
German
1 entries- Fregatte noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Greek
3 entries- φεργάδα noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- φρεγάδα noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- φρεγάτα noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Hebrew
1 entries- פְרִיגָטָה noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Hungarian
1 entries- fregatt noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Indonesian
1 entries- fregat noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Italian
1 entries- fregata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Japanese
1 entries- フリゲート noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Korean
1 entries- 프리깃 noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Macedonian
1 entries- фрега́та noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Malay
1 entries- frigat noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fregatt noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fregatt noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- فرقتین noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Polish
1 entries- fregata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Portuguese
1 entries- fragata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Russian
1 entries- фрега́т noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- fregàta noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
- фрега̀та noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Spanish
1 entries- fragata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Swedish
1 entries- fregatt noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Tagalog
1 entries- pragata noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Turkish
1 entries- fırkateyn noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фрега́т noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Venetan
1 entries- fregada noun (type of sailing warship used for patrolling)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The frigate set sail immediately.
Source: tatoeba (10803630)
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) marked the definite adoption of the "frigate" as a standard class of vessel, coming next to ships of the line, and used for cruising and scouting purposes.
Source: tatoeba (11568035)
The 65-meter-long frigate is the kind of warship seen in old paintings—made of oak, with huge billowing sails, cannons bristling from the deck, and complex rope rigging reaching a mast about 50 meters high.
Source: tatoeba (11770143)
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