different between ballista vs slingshot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ballístra), from ????? (báll?, “I throw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?st?/

Noun

ballista (plural ballistas or ballistae or ballistæ)

1. (weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

Translations

See also

• catapult

Finnish

Etymology

< Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?l?ist?/, [?b?l?is?t??]
• Rhymes: -?l?ist?
• Syllabification: bal?lis?ta

Noun

ballista

1. ballista (military engine)

Declension

See also

• varsijousi
• ballista on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

Latin

Alternative forms

• balista
• ballistra

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (ballístra), from ????? (báll?, “I throw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bal?lis.ta/, [bäl??l??s?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bal?lis.ta/, [b?l?list??]
• Homophone: Ballista

Noun

ballista f (genitive ballistae); first declension

1. ballista

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• arcuballista
• ballist?rius
• ballistica
• carroballista

Descendants

See also

• catapulta
• onager

References

• ballista in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ballista in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ballista in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ballista in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ballista in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ballista in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

sling +? shot

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sl????t/
• Hyphenation: sling?shot

Noun

slingshot (plural slingshots)

1. (chiefly US) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
2. (pinball) A stationary, often triangular object that launches any ball that hits its longest side back at a high force, now usually located above the flipper and between it and the inlane, with one each for both lower flippers.

Synonyms

• (stick with elastic band for shooting projectiles): bean shooter, catapult (UK), flip, hand catapult, shanghai (Australia and New Zealand)

Translations

Verb

slingshot (third-person singular simple present slingshots, present participle slingshotting, simple past and past participle slingshotted)

1. To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
2. (especially) To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.

See also

• gravity assist