Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for deckhouse. Search instead for deckenwurzel.
Definitions

deckhouse

[dek-hous] / ˈdɛkˌhaʊs /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Unlike its sister ships, the Zumwalt and the Monsoor, the LBJ will have a deckhouse that’s made of steel, not composite materials, to save money.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2019

The dining area in the deckhouse has panoramic views and there is plenty of cockpit space for lounging.

From Time Magazine Archive

She carries a large upper deckhouse, but the absence of a flying bridge keeps her proportions in balance and yields a pleasing profile.

From Time Magazine Archive

More contemporary in style than its 38-foot predecessor, the 39 SX shows beautifully curved glass windows in the aft deckhouse corners, as well as sealed windows all around to eliminate leaks.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was to lee of the deckhouse, and, seizing the hand-rail, tried to look about.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

The black paint was scarred and peeling higher up, the white deckhouses and boats had grown dingy, and there was about her a poverty-stricken look.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

Out in the stream, a small steamer with a black funnel and a row of white deckhouses moved seawards with the tide.

From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

The night air, however, and the weird eloquence of the utter solitude, the disordered deck, the great towering funnel, the ruined deckhouses, the serpentine lapping of the water, roused Mona from her semi-lethargy.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford

These, as well as the end of the ship's navigating bridge and the gangway, were illuminated by, he imagined, a lamp on the side of one of the deckhouses.

From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts

His eyes were half closed, for the white boats and deckhouses flashed dazzlingly in the strong light as the steamer lurched across the vivid swell of the Caribbean.

From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Dictionary.com's Learning Companion

Go beyond just looking up words.
Remember them forever with VocabTrainer.

Start training