Definition of Marine

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Marine

Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.

Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits.

A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.

The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.

A picture representing some marine subject.

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Marine Quotations

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
R. Lee Ermey

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
R. Lee Ermey

I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
R. Lee Ermey

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
Lee Trevino

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
Orville Wright

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
Wynton Marsalis

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
Douglass North

Marine Translations

marine in German is Schiffs-
marine in Spanish is marino
marine in Swedish is marin, flotta

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