Missile
['mɪsaɪl] or ['mɪsl]
Definition
(noun.) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control.
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Definition
(a.) Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
(n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Projectile.
a. Missive, to be thrown.
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Definition
adj. that may be thrown from the hand or from any instrument.—n. a weapon thrown by the hand.
Editor: Quentin
Examples
- What was wanted was a missile to pierce a thick hide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Chinese war rocket was a long, heavy affair, fitted at the end with a barb-like arrow, and to a foe unacquainted with firearms, it must have seemed a formidable missile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a well-daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her in mid-air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Drawing the shaft far back he drove the poisoned missile straight into the heart of the great anthropoid. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As a faint spurt of flame rose from the point where the missile struck he swung over the side and was quickly upon the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Mr. Brooke threw his head and shoulders backward as if some one had thrown a light missile at him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He had been wounded with some missiles from the crowd on the day of his capture, and his head was bandaged with a linen cloth. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- From China the knowledge of them spread to India, and in both these lands rockets were used as missiles of war as early as the ninth century. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At all events with its feathers and its piercing point the arrow became the most deadly of all missiles, and continued to be until long after the invention of firearms. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here was the secret of the terrible destructiveness of The Archer's tiny missiles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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