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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
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Meaning of "spaceship" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPACESHIP

spaceship  [ˈspeɪsˌʃɪp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPACESHIP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spaceship is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPACESHIP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

spaceship

Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle, vessel or machine designed to fly in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, earth observation, meteorology, navigation, planetary exploration and transportation of humans and cargo. On a sub-orbital spaceflight, a spacecraft enters space and then returns to the surface, without having gone into an orbit. For orbital spaceflights, spacecraft enter closed orbits around the Earth or around other celestial bodies. Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers from start or on orbit only, while those used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft used to support scientific research are space probes. Robotic spacecraft that remain in orbit around a planetary body are artificial satellites. Only a handful of interstellar probes, such as Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons, are currently on trajectories that leave our Solar System. Orbital spacecraft may be recoverable or not. By method of reentry to Earth they may be divided in non-winged space capsules and winged spaceplanes.

Definition of spaceship in the English dictionary

The definition of spaceship in the dictionary is a manned spacecraft.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPACESHIP


airship
ˈɛəˌʃɪp
authorship
ˈɔːθəˌʃɪp
battleship
ˈbætəlˌʃɪp
censorship
ˈsɛnsəˌʃɪp
championship
ˈtʃæmpɪənˌʃɪp
citizenship
ˈsɪtɪzənˌʃɪp
companionship
kəmˈpænjənˌʃɪp
dictatorship
dɪkˈteɪtəˌʃɪp
discipleship
dɪˈsaɪp əlˌʃɪp
fellowship
ˈfɛləʊˌʃɪp
flagship
ˈflæɡˌʃɪp
generalship
ˈdʒɛnrəlˌʃɪp
goddess-ship
ˈɡɒdɛsˌʃɪp
headmistressship
ˌhedˈmɪstrəsˌʃɪp
horsemanship
ˈhɔːsmənˌʃɪp
justiceship
ˈdʒʌstɪsˌʃɪp
membership
ˈmɛmbəˌʃɪp
noviceship
ˈnɒvɪsˌʃɪp
starship
ˈstɑːˌʃɪp
warship
ˈwɔːˌʃɪp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPACESHIP

space-time continuum
spaceband
spaceborne
spacecraft
spaced
spaced out
spacefaring
spacelab
spaceless
spaceman
spacemen
spaceport
spacer
spacesuit
spacewalk
spacewalker
spaceward
spacewoman
spacewomen
spacey

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPACESHIP

acquaintanceship
apostleship
apprenticeship
associateship
comradeship
judgeship
leadership
lectureship
mateship
modern apprenticeship
prelateship
prenticeship
primateship
reship
rogueship
squireship
thaneship
traineeship
trusteeship
umpireship
voivodeship

Synonyms and antonyms of spaceship in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spaceship» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPACESHIP

Find out the translation of spaceship to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spaceship from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spaceship» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

载人宇宙飞船
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nave espacial
570 millions of speakers

English

spaceship
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंतरिक्ष यान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سفينة الفضاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

космический корабль
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nave espacial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

spaceport
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vaisseau spatial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spaceport
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Raumschiff
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

宇宙船
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우주선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spaceport
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phi thuyền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விண்வெளித்தளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पेसपोर्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uzaylimanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

astronave
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

statek kosmiczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

космічний корабель
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nava
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαστημόπλοιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ruimtetuig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rymdskepp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

romskip
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spaceship

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPACESHIP»

The term «spaceship» is quite widely used and occupies the 26.946 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPACESHIP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spaceship

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10 QUOTES WITH «SPACESHIP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spaceship.
1
Kevin A. Ford
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.
2
R. Buckminster Fuller
We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
3
Laurieann Gibson
She's like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything's pink. She makes a certain move that's ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I'm evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She's fearless, and I love her.
4
Chris Hadfield
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
5
Paul Kantner
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
6
Shirley MacLaine
I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
7
Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
8
Jonathan Nolan
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
9
Suzan-Lori Parks
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
10
Burt Rutan
The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPACESHIP»

Discover the use of spaceship in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spaceship and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
"One of Fuller's most popular works, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive?
Richard Buckminster Fuller, Jaime Snyder, 2008
2
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt
The comedian known for roles in such films as Ratatouille shares observations on such topics as Edgar Allan Poe, paying dues in the stand-up comedy circuit and the inevitable milestones of young creative minds. Reprint.
Patton Oswalt, 2011
3
Spaceship Neutrino
In this book she describes how the detection and measurement of neutrino properties have tested technology to its limits, requiring huge detectors, often located deep in mines, under mountains or even under the sea.
Christine Sutton, 1992
4
Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
A brilliant combination of history and personal recollections documents the incredible story of a wild idea--a spacecraft powered by hydrogen bombs--and brings to life an episode in U.S. scientific research that brought together a vast ...
George Dyson, 2003
5
On a Spaceship with Beelzebub: By a Grandson of Gurdjieff
" --Gnosis Acclaimed author David Kherdian gives us the inside story of the powerful Gurdjieff Work of self-transformation, in which individuals increase their capacity for self-awareness by freeing themselves from conditioned patterns.The ...
David Kherdian, 1998
6
The Last Spaceship
Kim Rendall will not yield to the tyranny of the power-madrulers of Alphin III.
Murray Leinster, 2006
7
Mr. Spaceship
A human brain-controlled spacecraft would mean mechanical perfection. This was accomplished, and something unforeseen: a strange entity called—Mr. Spaceship
Philip K. Dick, 2014
8
Spaceship Earth: A Beginning Without End
A fictional account of mans attempt to survive over time on Earth.
Tom Schwartz, 2010
9
What Not to Do When You Find a Spaceship
Because this is the only book available that deals specifically with the discipline and challenges of retail field leadership, and which is written primarily and directly to and for retail field executives and senior level executives, it ...
Drake Highlander, 2008
10
Runaway Spaceship
The young reader becomes the unwilling passenger aboard a runaway spaceship programmed to make a two-year trip around Mars.
Susan Saunders, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPACESHIP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spaceship is used in the context of the following news items.
1
US Cites Inadequate Design Safeguards in Spaceship Backed by …
The mistake took place when SpaceShip Two was flying slightly more than half as fast as the designated velocity of roughly 1.4 times the speed of sound, ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Gov. 'Moonbeam' on Drought: California Is Like 'Spaceship Earth'
“In a spaceship you reuse everything,” Brown said. “Well, we're in space and we have to find a way to reuse, and with enough science and enough funding we'll ... «Breitbart News, Jun 15»
3
Bezos Spaceship Completes Its First Test Flight
Blue Origin, the private space company founded by the chief executive of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, launched an unmanned spaceship in its first test flight. «New York Times, Apr 15»
4
Investigators Think They've Figured Out Why The Virgin Galactic …
Investigators Think They've Figured Out Why The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crashed. Reuters. Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters. Nov. 12, 2014, 1:37 PM; 14,240; 2. «Business Insider, Nov 14»
5
New spaceship restoring hope after Virgin Galactic crash
MOJAVE Calif. The hangar that housed Virgin Galactic's ill-fated SpaceShipTwo has an empty space, but at a manufacturing plant just down the road ... «Reuters, Nov 14»
6
Pilot killed in spaceship crash identified
Longtime flight engineer and test pilot Michael Alsbury was killed Friday when a Virgin Galactic spaceship exploded and broke apart midflight above California's ... «USA TODAY, Nov 14»
7
Apple Spaceship Campus: Greenest Building on the Planet?
It's not easy being green, unless you're a multi-billion-dollar corporation: Apple chief Tim Cook on Monday talked up the company's environmentally friendly ... «PC Magazine, Sep 14»
8
Drone sneaks peek at Apple's 'spaceship' campus in progress
Perhaps Steve Jobs' most lasting legacy from his time at Apple will be the huge new spaceship-shaped campus currently under construction in Cupertino. «CNET, Sep 14»
9
From the world's tallest building to the red planet: First Arab …
The United Arab Emirates, already home to the world's tallest tower, is now reaching for the stars, with plans to send the first Arab spaceship to Mars in 2021. «Daily Mail, Jul 14»
10
Virgin Galactic's supersonic space ship in 71000-ft record smash
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reusable space vehicle completed its third supersonic test flight on Friday, successfully reaching its highest altitude yet. The craft ... «Register, Jan 14»

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