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tanker

noun

Definition of tanker

as in barge

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Recent Examples of tanker Romania’s acting defense minister, Radu Miruta, said that an investigation was underway, but that no drone was seen on military radars heading toward that tanker. — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 This second tanker was struck while sitting just one mile outside Romanian territorial waters. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026 First, the price of transporting oil has more than quintupled, as tanker owners charge record fees to travel through the strait. — Michel Robe, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026 According to Vanguard, the GFS Pride, a container ship, sank, while the fate of the Alfonso, a tanker, remains unknown. — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tanker

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Noun

Kemetale This boutique operator, which launched in 2022 with the Kemet Dahabeya, has small-scale ships that take their cues from the traditional dahabeah, a kind of sailing barge.

— Susan B. Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2026
Men stand on the side of a barge in New York Harbor holding a rope attached to a wooden crate from which Harry Houdini was trying to escape July 7, 1912.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of barge

Noun

Mouthwashing follows five crew members stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, which crash lands on an asteroid.

— Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026
While the pic’s storyline is under wraps, the game follows five crew members who are stranded aboard the space freighter Tulpar, where dwindling supplies, isolation and mounting paranoia expose the fractures between them.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

In August, at Finland’s request, the Swedish government deployed fighter aircraft and a warship to help patrol Finland’s eastern airspace and the Gulf of Finland against Russian air incursions and drones straying from Ukrainian operations.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026
The experience highlighted a central problem in warship procurement; selecting an existing design does not necessarily guarantee faster or cheaper construction if the customer substantially changes its architecture.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of warship

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Friday that a supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of oil struck a naval mine, exploded and caught fire while using an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
As per the firm, the supertanker was built at the Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering (DACKS) shipyard in China.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of supertanker

Noun

That last pandemic was accelerated by a boom in rail and steamship travel but was eventually quashed by advances in science.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Passenger boats have not passed through these parts since the days of the steamship petered all the way out some 60 years ago.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of steamship

Noun

The 151 MWh system is central to the design, bringing large-scale battery storage into a containership intended for regional routes.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Nearly one-third of containership imports and exports travel through the San Pedro Bay port complex.

— Pippa Stevens, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of containership

Noun

The coil was transferred from the facility to a transport frame on October 30.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2026
Spain’s transport minister resigned six days after a high-speed train crash south of Madrid killed 69 people, the country’s second deadly rail crash this year.

— Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026

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