different between fused vs cannonball
fused
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fju?zd/
Verb
fused
- simple past tense and past participle of fuse
Adjective
fused (not comparable)
- Joined together by fusing
- Melted
- Furnished with a fuse
- (organic chemistry) Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings
Derived terms
Anagrams
- feuds
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cannonball
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
cannon +? ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.
Noun
cannonball (plural cannonballs)
- (military, artillery)
- A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon
- Synonyms: solid shot, ball, round shot
- An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
- A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon
Translations
Etymology 2
From behaving like a cannonball fired from a cannon
Noun
cannonball (plural cannonballs)
- (diving) The act of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
- The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
- The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired.
- (slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast.
- Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".
- (tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
Derived terms
- cannonball run
See also
(diving):
- jack-knife
- bellyflop
- backflop
- rip entry
Translations
Verb
cannonball (third-person singular simple present cannonballs, present participle cannonballing, simple past and past participle cannonballed)
- To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
- He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.
- To careen; to move rapidly
Translations
Interjection
cannonball!
- Yelled when jumping/diving into the water, doing a cannonball landing.
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