sixth-rate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sixth-rate warship. UK,historical
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen. UK,historical,not-comparable
    — The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.
  2. Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate. idiomatic,not-comparable,uncommon

词形变化

sixth rate alternative sixth-rates plural sixth rate alternative

词汇关系

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fifth-rate first-rate fourth-rate second-rate third-rate
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