different between torpedo vs burst

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) +? -?d? (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”).

Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek ??????? (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (trupeti).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??(?)?pi?.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t???pi.do?/
• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do
• Rhymes: -i?d??

Noun

torpedo (plural torpedoes or torpedos)

1. An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
   • 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:

     The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he is born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo's touch […] .

2. (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
   1. (science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.
3. (regional) A submarine sandwich.
4. (archaic, military) A naval mine.
5. (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.
6. (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
7. (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.
8. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
9. An automobile with a torpedo body.
10. (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe. [1910s]
11. (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; breast with a large nipple. [from 1960s]
12. (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
    1. A thick marijuana cigarette. [1940s]
    2. A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine. [from 1980s]

Synonyms

• (sandwich): see sub
• (rail transport): detonator (UK)
• (an explosive underwater projectile): torp (abbreviation), fish

Derived terms

• torpedo body
• torpedo roll
• torpedo stern
• land torpedo
• spar torpedo
• torp (abbreviation)

Related terms

• torpid

Translations

Verb

torpedo (third-person singular simple present torpedoes, present participle torpedoing, simple past and past participle torpedoed)

1. To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
2. To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
3. To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.

Translations

Anagrams

• optrode, pet door, toe drop, trooped

Cebuano

Etymology

From English torpedo, borrowed from Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) +? -?d? (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpedo

1. (military) a torpedo; a cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”), from torp?d? (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) and -d? (“noun suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”), see also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek ??????? (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (trupeti)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?r?pe?.do?/
• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpedo f or m (plural torpedo's, diminutive torpedootje n)

1. A torpedo (projectile adapted for underwater use).
2. (dated) A low-lying streamlined car.

Derived terms

• torpedoboot

Related terms

• torpederen

Finnish

Alternative forms

• torpeedo (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?torpe(?)do/, [?t?o?rpe?(?)do?]
• Rhymes: -orpedo
• Syllabification: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpedo

1. torpedo (self-propelled cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater)

Declension

Derived terms

• torpedoida
• torpedovene

Italian

Noun

torpedo f (invariable)

1. tourer (motorcar)

See also

• torpedine

Anagrams

• deporto, deportò

Latin

Etymology

torpe? (“I am stiff or numb”) +? -?d?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tor?pe?.do?/, [t??r?pe?d?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tor?pe.do/, [t??r?p??d??]

Noun

torp?d? f (genitive torp?dinis); third declension

1. lethargy, inertness, sluggishness
2. torpedo fish

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• torpedo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• torpedo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• torpedo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin torpedo, via English torpedo or German Torpedo

Noun

torpedo m (definite singular torpedoen, indefinite plural torpedoer, definite plural torpedoene)

1. a torpedo

Derived terms

• torpedere

References

• “torpedo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin torpedo, via English torpedo or German Torpedo

Noun

torpedo m (definite singular torpedoen, indefinite plural torpedoar, definite plural torpedoane)

1. a torpedo

Derived terms

• torpedere

References

• “torpedo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”), from torp?d? (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpe? (“I am stiff, numb, torpid; I am astounded; I am inactive”) and -d? (“noun suffix”). Compare torpor.

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /to?.?pe.do/

Noun

torpedo m (plural torpedos)

1. torpedo (submarine weapon)
2. (Brazil) SMS (a text message sent on a cell phone)

Related terms

• torpedagem, torpedear, torpedeamento, torpedeiro

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /torp??do/
• Hyphenation: tor?pe?do

Noun

torpédo m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. torpedo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”).

Pronunciation

Noun

torpedo m (plural torpedos)

1. torpedo (fish)

   Synonyms: raya torpedo, raya negra, raya eléctrica

2. torpedo (weapon)

Derived terms

• lanzatorpedos
• cazatorpedos
• torpedear

Further reading

• “torpedo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English bersten, from Old English berstan, from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (compare West Frisian boarste, Dutch barsten, Swedish brista), from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break, crack, split, separate”) (compare Irish bris (“to break”)), enlargement of *b?reHi- (“to snip, split”). More at brine. Also cognate to debris.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /b?st/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??st/
• Rhymes: -??(r)st

Verb

burst (third-person singular simple present bursts, present participle bursting, simple past burst or (archaic) brast or (nonstandard) bursted, past participle burst or (rare) bursten or (nonstandard) bursted)

1. (intransitive) To break from internal pressure.

2. (transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
   • He burst his lance against the sand below.

4. (transitive) To separate (printer paper) at perforation lines.

5. (intransitive) To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
   • 1913, Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.

     Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.

6. (intransitive) To erupt; to change state suddenly as if bursting.

   The flowers burst into bloom on the first day of spring.
7. (transitive) To produce as an effect of bursting.

   to burst a hole through the wall

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X

     He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.

8. (transitive) To interrupt suddenly in a violent or explosive manner; to shatter.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:burst.

Coordinate terms

• split, crack

Derived terms

Related terms

• bust

Translations

Noun

burst (plural bursts)

1. An act or instance of bursting.

   The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.

2. A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.

   Synonym: spurt

   • 1860/1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

     "It's my wedding-day," cried Biddy, in a burst of happiness, "and I am married to Joe!"
3. A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
4. (military) The explosion of a bomb or missile.

   a ground burst; a surface burst

5. (archaic) A drinking spree.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Strub, strub, sturb, trubs

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse burst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?r?st/
• Rhymes: -?r?st

Noun

burst f (genitive singular burstar, nominative plural burstir)

1. bristle
2. gable

Declension

Related terms

• bursti
• bursta

Old High German

Alternative forms

• borst

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *burstiz.

Noun

burst n

1. bristle

Descendants

• Middle High German: burst, borst, burste, borste
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Berst

    Luxembourgish: Buuscht, Biischt

  • East Central German:

    Erzgebirgisch: bèrschd

  • German: Borste, Bürste

Old Norse

Etymology

from Proto-Germanic *burstiz

Noun

burst f

1. bristle

Declension

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Altnordisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014