torpedo

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

torpedoestorpedos

1.
(zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
2.
(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel quickly underwater and is used as a weapon.
Đồng nghĩa: torp, fish
3.
(archaic)(archaic, military) A naval mine.
4.
(obsolete)(obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry.
Đồng nghĩa: land torpedo, land mine
5.
(Northeastern, US)(Northeastern US) Synonym of submarine sandwich.
Đồng nghĩa: submarine sandwich
6.
(slang)A professional gunman or assassin.
7.
(US)(rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
Đồng nghĩa: detonator
8.
A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
9.
(historical)An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
10.
(neuroscience) A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
11.
(US, plural normally, slang)(slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe.
12.
(US, plural normally, slang)(slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; a breast with a large nipple.
13.
(slang) A marijuana cigarette.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

torpedoes

V_ing/Gerund

torpedos

V_ed/pp

torpedoingtorpedoed

1.
(transitive)To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
2.
(transitive)To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
3.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a powerful attack.

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Đồng nghĩa

torp fishland torpedoland minesubmarine sandwichdetonator

Cùng gốc / liên quan

common torpedotorpid torpedinous

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro * Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray), from torpeō + -ēdō, from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (stiff). In the military sense Robert Fulton, 1805. Cognate with steorfan to die, στερεός solid, tirpstu to become rigid, трупети. * type of car From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.