shipbuilder

«shipbuilder» in Mova's school dictionary: designing or building ships — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a shipbuilder, shipbuilders)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is designing or building ships. tree →

2) A company that builds ships. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons shipbuilders show how port towns such as Belfast (where the Titanic was built), Glasgow on the Clyde and Newcastle grew rich and how jobs changed when shipyards closed. In technology lessons pupils learn about hulls, floating and steel. Related words: shipyard, shipbuilding, dock.

examples

• The Titanic was built by shipbuilders in Belfast. tree →
• My great-grandad was a shipbuilder on the River Clyde. tree →
• Shipbuilders use huge cranes to lift steel plates. tree →
• The shipbuilder is making a new ferry for the islands. tree →
• Viking shipbuilders made long, fast boats from wood. tree →
• Thousands of shipbuilders lost their jobs when the yard closed. tree →
• "Go to Argus, the shipbuilder, and bid him build a galley with fifty oars." tree →

note

Countable; one word, no hyphen. The work is «shipbuilding»; the place is a «shipyard».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shipbuilder» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.