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Submersible

adjective

Capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged. Synonym: submergible. "A submergible electric frying pan" Antonym: nonsubmersible.

noun

An apparatus intended for use under water.

A warship designed to operate under water. Synonym: submersible warship. Antonym: surface ship.

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"Submersible" Quotes from Famous Books

... the destroyer, and some people think will supplant it; though its relatively slow speed prevents those dashes that are the destroyer's role. The submarine is, however, a kind of destroyer that is submersible, in which the necessities of submersibility preclude great speed. The submarine was designed to accomplish a clear and definite purpose—a secret under-water attack on an enemy's ship in the vicinity. It has succeeded so well in ...

— The Navy as a Fighting Machine • Bradley A. Fiske

... extraordinary speed without sails and without a screw. Her indefatigable motor is emerging from the sea, after having towed her from the coast of America to the archipelago of the Bermudas. There it is, floating alongside—a submersible boat, a submarine tug, worked by a screw set in motion by the current from a battery of ...

— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne

... its guard; but they sprang to their piece now and sent a futile shell above our heads. Nobs leaped about and barked furiously. "Let 'em have it!" commanded the tug-captain, and instantly revolvers and rifles poured bullets upon the deck of the submersible. Two of the gun-crew went down; the other trained their piece at the water-line of the oncoming tug. The balance of those on deck replied to our small-arms fire, directing their efforts toward the man at ...

— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... vengeance upon the realists. The word realism had come to be the trade-mark of Zola and his followers, especially of Mr. George Moore, who made a sacrifice of nine obvious, clean and unsinkable aspects of life so as to concentrate upon the submersible tenth. Chesterton came out with his defence of the ...

— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West

... large one. Gortchky and some associates took the submarine out for trial themselves. Days later they returned, reporting that the underseas craft had foundered, but that they had escaped to land in a collapsible boat. Most of the payments on the submersible had already been made. Gortchky paid the balance without protest, and the ...

— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock