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Oh my word Naval, Navel, Novel
A naval officer baring his navel on duty is not a novel thing but could draw the attention of a superior naval officer. Naval is an adjective: it means related to warships. Its noun form is navy. Which country has the highest naval power in the world? Naval officers have distinct uniform unlike the army or airforce officers. Navy refers to a country’s fleet of ships and the strength of ships, the personnel involved in manning it.
A naval officer baring his navel on duty is not a novel thing but could draw the attention of a superior naval officer. Naval is an adjective: it means related to warships. Its noun form is navy. Which country has the highest naval power in the world? Naval officers have distinct uniform unlike the army or airforce officers. Navy refers to a country’s fleet of ships and the strength of ships, the personnel involved in manning it. Any country that has a coastline has a navy. The people involved (naval officers) guard the coastlines and the territorial waters assigned to it in the bays, seas and oceans.
India’s naval strength may not be at par with China but its navy is superior to Pakistan. Navvy is an unskilled labourer who works on the building sites, or working at the construction site of any mammoth structure. Navel is belly-button. Navel is the small hollow in the middle of a person’s belly. The hole is where the umbilical cord existed at the time of the birth but cut or disconnected as the baby is separated from the mother.
Navels are often sexualised in movies especially in the scenes of songs. When a girl shows her navel some may take it lightly but many not take it lightly. It depends upon one’s country and culture. Navel orange? Oranges are different types: Navel, and Valencia. Navel oranges are cultivated in Brazil and the USA. Navel oranges have a navel-shaped formation at the top of the fruit towards the blossom end.
Novel has two meanings. Novel as noun refers to a tale, story, fiction, narrative. Novelist is an author or writer who writes fiction: stories that are in long format.Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is one of the classic novels, and also one of the longest tales. So is Vikram Seth’s novel titled ‘A Suitable Boy
Indian novelists who won the Booker Prize are Arundhati Roy for ‘The God of Small Things’, Kiran Desai for ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ and Arvind Adiga for ‘White Tiger’. Novel as an adjective means that which is new, different from the existing one, original, that which is unusual and innovative. He has novel ideas to design houses. The US continues to be the country of innovative minds in the cyber-field because its residents are coming up with novel ideas: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter…Novelty is a noun: it refers to newness, uniqueness, curiosity, souvenirs and mementoes.
