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Convoy, a character from the Vigilante 8 video games; LDV Convoy, a cargo/passenger van manufactured by LDV; Lock convoy, a performance problem that can occur when using locks for concurrency control in a multithreaded application; Convoy (company), a Seattle-based trucking startup; Convoy, an indie video game
Ships sailing in convoy presented a much smaller target: a convoy was as hard to find as a single ship. Even if the privateer found a convoy and the wind was favourable for an attack, it could still hope to capture only a handful of ships before the rest managed to escape, and a small escort of warships could easily thwart it.
group of plain beds used as no-frills lodging (UK: dormitory, q.v.); also used as a verb ("I bunked with them in their room"; "The cabin could bunk about 18") bureau: a type of writing table: a public office or government agency a type of chest of drawers: burn (n.) (Scotland and Northern England) narrow river, stream – more s.v. creek
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
According to a press release dated Feb. 9, Convoy to Save America is planning to send two convoys to the Peace Bridge in Buffalo this weekend, the first of which will leave New York City on Friday ...
In military aviation, a sortie is an aircraft flight or mission (training or combat), [4] starting when the aircraft takes off. For example, one mission involving six aircraft would tally six sorties.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.
Oil prices bounced around quite a bit in 2024. They rallied more than 20% at one point -- topping $85 per barrel -- before cooling off toward the end of the year.