"battleship," literally "fearing nothing," from dread (v.) + nought (n.). Mentioned as the name of a ship in the Royal Navy c. 1596, but modern sense is from the name of the first of a new class of British battleships, based on the "all big-gun" principle (armed with 10 big guns rather than 4 large guns and a battery of smaller ones), launched Feb. 18, 1906.
双语例句
1. The 14 - inch torpedo has no hope of crippling a modern dreadnought.
355毫米鱼雷不能重创一艘先进的无畏战舰.
来自辞典例句
2. But this quickly got out of control and dreadnought CASE tools were born.
