单词 | teleguided |
释义 | teleguidedadj. 1. Of a machine or device, esp. a missile: controlled or directed remotely. Now rare. ΚΠ 1946 Electronic Industries May 62 (heading) Tele-guided missils [sic]. Remote control of bombs made possible by development of midget television transmitter carried by the bomb itself. 1957 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 20 Nov. 7/9 The Paris underground railway system today said that it is experimenting with, unmanned ‘tele-guided subways’. 1972 Daily Tel. 6 May 5/1 Among the new weapons is a teleguided anti-tank rocket fired from a helicopter, which has never previously been used in combat. 2006 Independent on Sunday 16 July 39 Four Israeli sailors were killed..when a tele-guided Iranian made missile smashed into their Hetz-class gunboat just off Beirut at dusk. 2. figurative. Designating someone or something that is ostensibly independent but controlled indirectly or unofficially. Now chiefly West African. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [adjective] > guided self-guided1927 guided1945 teleguided1963 TOW1972 wire-guided1993 1963 K. Nkrumah in New World Rev. May 13/2 On the international scale the most dangerous manifestation of neo-colonialism is what I called ‘teleguided diplomacy’... This strategy is carried out through the ‘teleguided’ activities of indigenous leaders. 1975 Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury 18 Mar. a4/3 There are, it is known, certain political opponents of this regime in jail, people often called ‘teleguided leftists’, although who does the ‘teleguiding’ is never alleged. 1992 F. Agbodeka Econ. Hist. Ghana from Earliest Times ix. 162 From the 1950s, it was the teleguided middle classes or urban elite, who played this role. 2014 This Day (Lagos, Nigeria) 21 Nov. In clearly teleguided judgments inspired by the Al-Makura administration, the state High Court..seized the two seats from PDP and handed them over to APC. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1946 |
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