different between gunnery vs drogue

English

Etymology

gun +? -ery

Noun

gunnery (usually uncountable, plural gunneries)

1. (uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire including aspects of bullet flight and impact.
2. (uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.
3. (uncountable) The firing of guns
   • 1920, Wilfred Owen, "Exposure" in Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 18, [1]

     Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.

   • 1973, Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Švejk, translated by Cecil Parrott, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 5, p. 438,

     The 12th march company telephoned claiming that someone in the office had heard that they were waiting to do some shooting practice at moveable targets and that they would only leave after gunnery practice under front conditions.

4. (countable) A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use

Translations

See also

• artillery

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain; probably related to drag in some way.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

drogue (plural drogues)

1. (whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving.
   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road, the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging, escaping into the very centre of the earth.

2. (nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to.
3. (aeronautics) A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting and deploying a larger parachute.
4. (aeronautics) A conical basket or device used variously as a target for gunnery practice, and as a docking point for aerial refuelling.
5. A wind cone.

Synonyms

• (conical parachute): drag parachute, drag chute, drogue chute, drogue parachute

Translations

See also

• drag parachute

Anagrams

• drouge, gourde, rogued, rouged

French

Etymology

First attested in Middle French circa 1462, probably from Middle Dutch droge (modern Dutch droog).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???/

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

1. drug

Derived terms

• drogue douce
• drogue dure
• se droguer
• droguiste

Descendants

• ? Danish: droge
• ? German: Droge
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: droge
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: droge

Further reading

• “drogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Middle Dutch droge (modern Dutch droog).

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

1. drug

Descendants

• French: drogue
  • ? Danish: droge
  • ? German: Droge
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: droge
  • ? Norwegian Nynorsk: droge
• ? Middle English: drogge
  • English: drug
  • ? Irish: druga

Norman

Etymology

Either via French (or Middle French) drogue, or borrowed directly from Middle Dutch droge.

Noun

drogue f (plural drogues)

1. (Jersey) drug

Derived terms

• drodgi (“to drug”)
• drogu'thie (“drugging”)

Spanish

Verb

drogue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of drogar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of drogar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of drogar.