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torpedo
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)
- 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 […] .
- 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:
- (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
- (science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.
- (regional) A submarine sandwich.
- (archaic, military) A naval mine.
- (obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo.
- (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
- (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.
- A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- An automobile with a torpedo body.
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe. [1910s]
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; breast with a large nipple. [from 1960s]
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- A thick marijuana cigarette. [1940s]
- 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)
- To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
- To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
- 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
- (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)
- A torpedo (projectile adapted for underwater use).
- (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
- torpedo (self-propelled cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater)
Declension
Derived terms
- torpedoida
- torpedovene
Italian
Noun
torpedo f (invariable)
- 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
- lethargy, inertness, sluggishness
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- torpedo (submarine weapon)
- (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 ????????)
- torpedo
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin torp?d? (“a torpedo fish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
torpedo m (plural torpedos)
- torpedo (fish)
- Synonyms: raya torpedo, raya negra, raya eléctrica
- torpedo (weapon)
Derived terms
- lanzatorpedos
- cazatorpedos
- torpedear
Further reading
- “torpedo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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shell
English
Etymology
From Middle English schelle, from Old English s?iell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skalj?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).
Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.Doublet of sheal.
- (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?l, IPA(key): /??l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
shell (plural shells)
- A hard external covering of an animal.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
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- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An emaciated person.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- (Britain, slang) A person's ear.
- Synonym: shell-like
- Can I have a quick word in your shell?
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shell (third-person singular simple present shells, present participle shelling, simple past and past participle shelled)
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- Nuts shell in falling.
- Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- 1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
- Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.
- 1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (topology) To form a shelling.
Derived terms
- sheller
- shell out
Translations
Further reading
- shell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- shell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shell on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- hells
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English schal, from Old English s?eal.
Verb
shell
- shall
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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