steamship

CEFRB1

/ˈstimˌʃɪp/

noun

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A steamship is, without a doubt, a city in itself.
Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.

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Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.
1962 April 26, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264
The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN
India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN

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