| 单词 | missile |
| 释义 | missile (once / 430 pages) n A missile is an object that can be projected toward a target. Examples include a spitball shot through a straw, a poison-tipped arrow sent via bow, or a self-propelled heat-seeking rocket, designed to take out targets at long range. When you learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis in history, the missiles in question were guided rockets loaded with nuclear warheads, supplied to the Cubans by the Soviet Union. A missile defense strategy is one where you send up defensive missile to blow up your enemy's offensive ones before they can reach you. WORD FAMILYmissile: missiles USAGE EXAMPLESSecurity Council resolutions ban the North from pursuing its missile program. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) In his New Year message at the weekend, Mr Kim Jong-un said North Korea was close to testing long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Meanwhile, she authorised the transfer to Estonia of high-precision long-range missiles to be deployed alongside drones, tanks and RAF jets. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a target but is not self-propelled Syn|Hypo|Hyper projectile arrow a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow boomerang, throw stick, throwing sticka curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower bullet, sluga projectile that is fired from a gun cannon ball, cannonball, round shota solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon darta small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot seekera missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) pellet, shota solid missile discharged from a firearm spitballa projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere banderillaa decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight BB, BB shota small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun bird shot, buckshot, duck shotsmall lead shot for shotgun shells broad arrowan arrow with a wide barbed head butt shafta blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice dumdum, dumdum bulleta soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound full metal jacketa lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper) grape, grapeshota cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot kiley, kyliean Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex ball, musket balla solid projectile that is shot by a musket quarrelan arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges rifle balla bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape rubber bulleta bullet made of hard rubber; designed for use in crowd control arm, weapon, weapon system any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting 2n a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control Hypo|Hyper air-to-air missile a missile designed to be launched from one airplane at another air-to-ground missile, air-to-surface missilea missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground ballistic missilea missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target guided missilea rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices heat-seeking missilea missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine) sidewinderair-to-air missile with infrared homing device ABM, antiballistic missilea defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles brilliant pebblea code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles V-1, buzz bomb, doodlebug, flying bomb, robot bomba small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb Exoceta guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missilea ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another space probea rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation Stingera portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder SAM, surface-to-air missilea guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target projectile, rocket any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine arm, weapon, weapon systemany instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting |
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