Flagship, the Glossary
A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.[1]
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73 relations: Admiral, American Airlines, American Broadcasting Company, Automotive industry, İstiklal Avenue, Battle of Trafalgar, Brand, Broadcast network, CBS, CBS News, Chain store, Chicago Cubs, Chicago Cubs Radio Network, Christopher Newport, College Board, Command and control, Command ship, Commanding officer, Cruiser, Delta Air Lines, Electronics industry, Fifth Avenue, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, First-rate, Flag officer, Flagship (broadcasting), Flagship species, Frigate, George Somers, Ginza, Hongqi L5, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Jamestown supply missions, Land Rover, Land-grant university, List of flagships, Lists of named passenger trains, London Company, Manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Merchant Navy (United Kingdom), Metaphor, Morrill Land-Grant Acts, National Educational Television, Navy, NBC, Network affiliate, New York City, Owned-and-operated station, Oxford Street, ... Expand index (23 more) »
- Metaphors referring to ships
Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies.
American Airlines
American Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Automotive industry
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of companies and organizations involved in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, repairing, and modification of motor vehicles.
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İstiklal Avenue
İstiklal Avenue (lit) is a 1.4 kilometre (0.87 mi) pedestrian street in the historic Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
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Brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers.
Broadcast network
A terrestrial network (or broadcast network in the United States) is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
Chain store
A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices.
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.
Chicago Cubs Radio Network
The Chicago Cubs Radio Network comprises 30 stations in six states.
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Christopher Newport
Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer.
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College Board
The College Board, styled as CollegeBoard, is an American not-for-profit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand access to higher education.
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Command and control
Command and control (abbr. C2) is a "set of organizational and technical attributes and processes...
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Command ship
Command ships serve as the flagships of the commander of a fleet.
Commanding officer
The commanding officer (CO) or commander, or sometimes, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG) or general officer commanding (GOC), is the officer in command of a military unit.
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Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Flagship and cruiser are ship types.
Delta Air Lines
Delta Air Lines is one of the major airlines of the United States and a legacy carrier headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Electronics industry
The electronics industry is the economic sector that produces electronic devices.
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Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue is a major and prominent thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.
First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
The First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS) is a statutory position in the British Armed Forces usually held by an admiral.
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First-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line.
Flag officer
A flag officer is a commissioned officer in a nation's armed forces senior enough to be entitled to fly a flag to mark the position from which the officer exercises command.
Flagship (broadcasting)
In broadcasting, a flagship (also known as a flagship station or key station) is the broadcast station which originates a television network, or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station.
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Flagship species
In conservation biology, a flagship species is a species chosen to raise support for biodiversity conservation in a given place or social context.
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Frigate
A frigate is a type of warship. Flagship and frigate are ship types.
George Somers
Sir George Somers (before 24 April 1554 – 9 November 1610) was an English privateer and naval hero, knighted for his achievements and the Admiral of the Virginia Company of London.
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Ginza
Ginza (銀座) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.
Hongqi L5
The Hongqi L5 is a large retro styled full size luxury car produced by Hongqi since 2014, whose design was inspired by the discontinued Hongqi CA770.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.
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Jamestown supply missions
The Jamestown supply missions were a series of fleets (or sometimes individual ships) from 1607 to around 1611 that were dispatched from England by the London Company (also known as the Virginia Company of London) with the specific goal of initially establishing the company's presence and later specifically maintaining the English settlement of "James Fort" on present-day Jamestown Island.
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Land Rover
Land Rover is a British brand of predominantly four-wheel drive, off-road capable vehicles, owned by multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), since 2008 a subsidiary of India's Tata Motors.
Land-grant university
A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994.
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List of flagships
In its strictest sense, a flagship is any naval vessel on which a flag officer is embarked.
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Lists of named passenger trains
In the history of rail transport, dating back to the 19th century, there have been hundreds of named passenger trains.
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London Company
The London Company, officially known as the Virginia Company of London, was a division of the Virginia Company with responsibility for colonizing the east coast of North America between latitudes 34° and 41° N.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.
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Mercedes-Benz S-Class
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class, formerly known as Sonderklasse (German for "special class", abbreviated as "S-Klasse"), is a series of full-sized luxury sedans, limousines and armored sedans produced by the German automaker Mercedes-Benz.
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Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)
The British Merchant Navy is the collective name given to British civilian ships and their associated crews, including officers and ratings.
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
Morrill Land-Grant Acts
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally owned land, often obtained from Native American tribes through treaty, cession, or seizure.
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National Educational Television
National Educational Television (NET) was an American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Navy
A navy, naval force, military maritime fleet, war navy, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Network affiliate
In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated.
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Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.
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Radio network
There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many (simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and the two-way radio (duplex communication) type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery services.
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Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.
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Range Rover
The Land Rover Range Rover, generally shortened to Range Rover, is a 4x4 luxury SUV produced by Land Rover, a marque and sub-brand of Jaguar Land Rover.
Robert M. Berdahl
Robert Max Berdahl (born March 15, 1937) is a retired American college and university administrator.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Sailing ship
A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel.
Samsung Galaxy S series
The Samsung Galaxy S series is a line of flagship Android smartphones and tablet computers produced by Samsung Electronics.
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Sea Venture
Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission flotilla to the Jamestown Colony in 1609.
State university system
A state university system in the United States is a group of public universities supported by an individual state, territory or federal district.
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Television broadcaster
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.
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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is a former academic journal, now an online magazine, for African Americans working in academia in the United States.
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Toyota Century
The is a lineup of full-size luxury cars and limousines produced mainly for the Japanese market, serving as Toyota's flagship car within Japan; globally the unrelated Lexus LS series is Toyota's flagship luxury model.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Idaho
The University of Idaho (U of I, or UIdaho) is a public land-grant research university in Moscow, Idaho.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
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WGN (AM)
WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a talk radio format.
WNET
WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
See also
Metaphors referring to ships
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship
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