unsinkable

(ʌnˈsɪŋkəbəl)

adj

not capable of sinking or being sunk

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Adj.

unsinkable - incapable of being sunk; "they thought the Titanic was unsinkable"

sinkable - capable of being sunk

Translations

unsinkbar

αβύθιστος

unsinkable

[ˈʌnˈsɪŋkəbl] ADJ → insumergible

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unsinkable

adj → unsinkbar; battleship → unversenkbar

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unsinkable

[ʌnˈsɪŋkəbl] adj → inaffondabile

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Sent off a 1-3 chance for the Lefley's Hog Roast Novices' Chase, Unsinkable Boxer was always travelling sweetly for Tony McCoy.

Super Boxer outpoints 'em

Unsinkable Boxer, trained by Martin Pipe, is the 10-1 market leader for the Coral Cup by the race's sponsors and Ladbrokes.

Bookies wary of Pipe fancy

The Titanic - hailed as unsinkable - hit an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic in 1912 with the loss of 1,490 lives.

FASLANE SUB HITS ICEBERG; Fury as Navy hush up prang

Silver Shout gets the vote in the opening heat, while Unsinkable Jools and Metric Bill look set to battle it out in the second heat, with the former getting the vote.

KANOUTE

UNSINKABLE BOXER makes his long awaited chasing debut at Uttoxeter today.

BOX CLEVER PUNTERS

Heat 2: 1 Unsinkable Jools; 2 Beauty Saloon; 3 Metric Bill; 4 Haliska Vienna (w); 5 Leonies Star (w); 6 Toirneach (w).

Irish news: Record-breaker now 9-4 for Ces success

Jim Culloty has been booked for Village King - they fell when going strongly at the 20th fence last year - while Dorset trainer Robert Alner will be double- handed with Unsinkable Boxer and Lance Armstrong.

Racing: HARVEY'S BIG FLING

Unsinkable Boxer has been installed as the 10-1 market leader for the Coral Cup by the race's sponsors and Ladbrokes.

BOXER A KNOCKOUT

Also in there are Limerick record-breaker Raheen Treasure and Dolores Ruth's Unsinkable Jools.

Irish News: Top clash in Open heats

BOXING clever - that was Tony McCoy after Unsinkable Boxer's impressive first chasing attempt at Uttoxeter, but there was no disguising the Champion's feel for the horse.

Racing: Boxer's a champ

Nick Walker 33 Trainer of Elementary & Unsinkable Boxer

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS:

UNSINKABLE BOXER delivered one of knockout blows of the year to bookmakers when hardly turning a hair to land the Gold Card Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham in March.