单词 | teleguide |
释义 | teleguidev. 1. transitive. To remotely control or direct (a machine or device, esp. a missile). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > aim or direct (missile) > control (missile) at a distance teleguide1960 1960 Aircraft Dec. 58/2 The SS-12..can be teleguided by two aimers, a launcher and an advanced observer. 1962 Financial Times 21 Apr. 1/4 The missile, made by Nord Aviation, is teleguided by the pilot for use against ships and important ground targets. 2014 F. Capello in F. Capello et al. Telemed. Children's Health viii. 93 This is a very expensive technology..that allows distant operators to work on a patient, tele-guiding a robot that could work in their place. 2. transitive. figurative. To control indirectly or unofficially (someone or something that is ostensibly independent). Now chiefly West African. ΚΠ 1960 Civilisations 10 286 Mr. Touré could evidently imagine nothing more dreadful than independence..‘teleguided by the colonialists with the complicity of subservient African governments’. 1969 Africa Digest June 51/2 An attempt at subversion teleguided from abroad. 1977 Dædalus Fall 150 Jacquart does not celebrate the triumph of small familial agriculture, but rather its defeat by the offensive of the ‘large enterprises’ teleguided by the urban nobility and the Parisian notables of the classical age. 2015 Vanguard (Lagos, Nigeria) (Nexis) 16 Feb. Soon after Jonathan won the 2011 elections, the former president tried everything possible to control and teleguide him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1960 |
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