What does shipboard mean?
Definitions for shipboard
ˈʃɪpˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrdship·board
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word shipboard.
Princeton's WordNet
shipboardadjective
casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship
"shipboard romances"
Wiktionary
shipboardnoun
The side of a ship.
shipboardadjective
Occurring or existing on board a ship.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Shipboardnoun
Etymology: ship and board.
Let him go on shipboard, and the mariners will not leave their starboard and larboard. John Bramhall.
Friend,
What do’st thou make a shipboard? To what end? Dryden.Ovid, writing from on shipboard to his friends, excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes. Dryden.
They have made all thy shipboards of fir-trees, and brought cedars from Lebanon to make masts. Ezek. xxvii. 5.
ChatGPT
shipboard
Shipboard refers to anything that is located, conducted, or occurring on board a ship. It pertains to all activities, items, or persons that are present or done within a vessel at sea.
Webster Dictionary
Shipboardnoun
a ship's side; hence, by extension, a ship; -- found chiefly in adverbial phrases; as, on shipboard; a shipboard
Etymology: [Ship + board. See Board, n., 8]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shipboard in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shipboard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of shipboard in a Sentence
Shipboard fires must be suppressed, whereas in many civilian fires, a building can be considered a loss and the focus might shift to containing the fire to prevent spread, on a ship, fire suppression is critical to the survival of the ship and its personnel; confined spaces, smoke, heat and gases can be a threat to humans.
We're working toward human-robot teams. It's what we call the hybrid force: humans and robots working together. for instance, a bipedal robot could be configured to take shipboard measurements, scan for corrosion and leaks, and identify changes to the shape of the room from its original configuration.
Rest assured we will leverage our learnings from this process as a best practice, we remain confident that our shipboard operations, especially in food handling and preparation, are of the highest quality and we are always committed to delivering an exceptional experience to our guests.
For instance, a bipedal robot could be configured to take shipboard measurements, scan for corrosion and leaks, and identify changes to the shape of the room from its original configuration.
CLIA is proud of its lines’ strong commitment to public health and their record of excellence with VSP ship inspections. Our cruise line's ships are graded in dozens of areas including hygiene and sanitation of food, galley cleanliness, water, shipboard personnel and the ship overall, these scores are a testament to cruise line efforts to provide passengers with the highest level of service.
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