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Definition of bireme in English: biremenoun ˈbʌɪriːmˈbaɪrim An ancient warship with two files of oarsmen on each side. 双排桨快艇 Example sentencesExamples - Gallus, notwithstanding, built not less than eighty biremes and triremes and galleys.
- A fast and fearsome battleship, the bireme was manned by 44 oarsmen working two banks of oars.
- It was a special type of bireme, made in such a way so that could be used as a tanker and as a battle ship in the same time.
- The liburnae must have been different from earlier biremes in some way.
- The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme.
- I remember reading a book called ‘When China Ruled The Seas’ and I think boats like triremes and biremes only came about in China after the western counterparts in the med.
- As the Greek name implies, the trireme had three rows of rowers on each side, developed from earlier Greek and Phoenician biremes.
- These new biremes were cheaper than the trireme, and required only about 100 rowers.
- From ancient biremes to gigantic aircraft carriers, from mighty steamers to futuristic submarines, this book is filled with the wonders of seafaring vessels past and present.
- After a time these vessels were superseded by biremes, which were decked, had masts and sails, and were impelled by rowers sitting at two different elevations, as already explained.
- For that purpose, Caesar had his men build an entire fleet of biremes from scratch in less than two months.
- There is a great deal of useful material here, such as how the Romans seem to have conducted an ‘amphibious assault’ and the frequency that each type of warship (quinqueremes, biremes, liburinians, etc.) was found in the Roman fleets.
- Monoremes contained one bank of oars; biremes, two banks; triremes, three; quadriremes, four; quinqueremes, five; and so on.
- The biremes were slimmer and thus more maneuverable, but also clearly less structurally sound.
- In this spectacle thirty beaked ships, triremes or biremes, and a large number of smaller vessels met in conflict.
- Augustus was also very proud of the shows he offered to the Romans and one of the statements describes a naval battle on the Tiber which involved more than 30 triremes and biremes.
- Gaius embraced his brother warmly as the men stood on the dock where two biremes, rigged and prepared to sail, were moored.
- Evidence about biremes is relatively scarce, and so it is not clear exactly how the banks of rowers were arranged, but the bireme seems to have been developed to provide a more powerful vessel.
- It could be used as a fighting platform, or, as in the Phoenician biremes of Sennacherib and Sargon, as accommodation for passengers though this does not seem to have been the practice in Greece.
- The famous wall-paintings of biremes from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii show biremes, but there is not sufficient detail to specify the type of bireme.
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin biremis, from bi- 'having two' + remus 'oar'. Definition of bireme in US English: biremenounˈbīrēmˈbaɪrim An ancient warship with two files of oarsmen on each side. 双排桨快艇 Example sentencesExamples - The biremes were slimmer and thus more maneuverable, but also clearly less structurally sound.
- There is a great deal of useful material here, such as how the Romans seem to have conducted an ‘amphibious assault’ and the frequency that each type of warship (quinqueremes, biremes, liburinians, etc.) was found in the Roman fleets.
- As the Greek name implies, the trireme had three rows of rowers on each side, developed from earlier Greek and Phoenician biremes.
- In this spectacle thirty beaked ships, triremes or biremes, and a large number of smaller vessels met in conflict.
- Evidence about biremes is relatively scarce, and so it is not clear exactly how the banks of rowers were arranged, but the bireme seems to have been developed to provide a more powerful vessel.
- From ancient biremes to gigantic aircraft carriers, from mighty steamers to futuristic submarines, this book is filled with the wonders of seafaring vessels past and present.
- It was a special type of bireme, made in such a way so that could be used as a tanker and as a battle ship in the same time.
- I remember reading a book called ‘When China Ruled The Seas’ and I think boats like triremes and biremes only came about in China after the western counterparts in the med.
- Gallus, notwithstanding, built not less than eighty biremes and triremes and galleys.
- Augustus was also very proud of the shows he offered to the Romans and one of the statements describes a naval battle on the Tiber which involved more than 30 triremes and biremes.
- For that purpose, Caesar had his men build an entire fleet of biremes from scratch in less than two months.
- A fast and fearsome battleship, the bireme was manned by 44 oarsmen working two banks of oars.
- The famous wall-paintings of biremes from the House of the Vettii in Pompeii show biremes, but there is not sufficient detail to specify the type of bireme.
- After a time these vessels were superseded by biremes, which were decked, had masts and sails, and were impelled by rowers sitting at two different elevations, as already explained.
- The liburnae must have been different from earlier biremes in some way.
- Monoremes contained one bank of oars; biremes, two banks; triremes, three; quadriremes, four; quinqueremes, five; and so on.
- Gaius embraced his brother warmly as the men stood on the dock where two biremes, rigged and prepared to sail, were moored.
- The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme.
- These new biremes were cheaper than the trireme, and required only about 100 rowers.
- It could be used as a fighting platform, or, as in the Phoenician biremes of Sennacherib and Sargon, as accommodation for passengers though this does not seem to have been the practice in Greece.
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin biremis, from bi- ‘having two’ + remus ‘oar’. |