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knightship en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English knyghtschipe; by surface analysis, knight + ship.

Meanings

1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
   • No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour. 1864-1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?:
2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
   • Fare your knightship well. 1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas:

Forms

Synonyms

knighthood

knightship en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From knight + ship.

Meanings

1. A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.

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Coordinates

zebraship spaceship) · camelship spaceship) (A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.) · flamingoship spaceship) (A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.) · antelopeship spaceship) · ibisship spaceship) (A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.) · giraffeship spaceship) (A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.)

Hypernyms

oblique spaceship