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noun
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written)
- the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays)
- an attack by dropping bombs
noun
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
verb
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- 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.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- 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.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- 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.
- A person's ear.
- 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 thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- 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.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
noun
- A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
- An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- The combined cheers of a crowd.
verb
noun
- The position in a formation of ships or bombers that is most exposed to enemy fire.
- A situation in which the aircraft cannot increase or decrease its airspeed without stalling or buffeting.
- A corner of the field formed by the opponent's goal line and a sideline, into which a punt is often aimed in order to force the opposition to play close to their goal line.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffin, corner.
noun
- fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
- a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else
- a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent)
verb
- provide with a covering or cause to be covered
- form a cover over
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- provide for
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- travel across or pass over
- be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
- hold within range of an aimed firearm
- to take an action to protect against future problems
- hide from view or knowledge
- protect or defend (a position in a game)
- maintain a check on; especially by patrolling
- protect by insurance
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- invest with a large or excessive amount of something
- help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming his responsibilities
- be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
- spread over a surface to conceal or protect
- cover as if with a shroud
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- put something on top of something else
- play a higher card than the one previously played
- be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game
- sit on (eggs)
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
noun
verb
- To bombard with cannons.
- To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
- To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
- To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
noun
- A cannon bit.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
- The arm of a player who can throw well.
- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- A carom.
- A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
- A pickpocket.
verb
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To fire (a projectile).
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To grow; to advance.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
noun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
- the event of something burning (often destructive)
- the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
- a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
- a severe trial
- intense adverse criticism
verb
- start firing a weapon
- cause to go off
- bake in a kiln so as to harden
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- go off or discharge
- drive out or away by or as if by fire
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- destroy by fire
- provide with fuel
- generate an electrical impulse
- become ignited
- start or maintain a fire in
noun
- Artillery
- apprentice
- absorbance; absorbancy
- accusative case
- amphibian
- attack
- August
- author
- automobile
- application
- Amos, the book of
- adjutant
- accumulator
- acre; acres
- Angstrom
- ana; anna
- April
- anode
- answer
- artificer
- air branch
- atomic weight
- associate; association
- academy; academician
- age; aged
- airman
- assault, as on a badge
- air
- administration
- admiral
- alfa
- amateur
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- address
- adult
- acid
- aircraft; airplane
- article
- Atlantic
- arctic
- army
- accommodation
- America; Americanization
- ambassador
- alto
adv
verb
adj
- amphibious
- avancé (fast)
- Asian
- asked
- Australian
- arterial
- alto
- auxiliary
- adjusted
- asymmetric
- accepted
- astragal
- anterior
- American
- arctic
- approved
- atomic
- Absolute
- absent
prep
verb
- To fire a mortar (weapon).
- To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
- To pound in a mortar.
- To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
noun
- A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
- A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
noun
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A circular dance.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- A round-top.
- A round of beef.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- A stage in a competition.
- A stage or level of a game.
- The hindquarters of a bovine.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- The play after each deal.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
verb
- To go round, pass, go past.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.
- To shape something into a curve.
- To turn past a boundary.
- To advance to home plate.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- To do ward rounds.
- To become shaped into a curve.
- To finish; to complete; to fill out.
adj
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Large in magnitude.
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- Plump.
- Consistent; fair; just; applied to conduct.
- Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- Vaulted.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing.
- Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
noun
- An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
- A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
- The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
verb
noun
- The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
- A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
- The rails of a railway.
- Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
- The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
- Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
- Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
- A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
- Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
- The ore from which a metal is derived.
- An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
adj
- Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
- Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
verb
noun
- A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
- An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
- Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
verb
- To signal in order to initiate communication with.
- To send or release hail.
- Of hail, to fall from the sky.
- To name; to designate; to call.
- To pour down in rapid succession.
- To call out loudly in order to gain the attention of.
- To indicate, from a designated stop or otherwise, to the driver of a public transport vehicle that one wishes to board and travel on the vehicle, usually using hand signals such as waving.
- To greet; give salutation to; salute.
noun
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine
- a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path
- a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
verb
verb
- To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
- To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
- To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
- To continuously send or direct (at someone)
noun
noun
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
verb
- To fire a weapon.
- To initiate something.
- To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone).
- To activate; to become active.
noun
- An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
- An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
- An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity.
- A concept or image that upsets somebody by sparking a negative emotional response.
- A similar device used to activate any mechanism.
- An event that initiates others, or incites a response.
- A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component.
- A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
- A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing.
- A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
adj
- An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).
- Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
- Very close; direct or adjacent.
- Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
- Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).
- Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
verb
- To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To refill (a prescription).
- To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
- To happen again; recur.
- To echo the words of (a person).
- To repay or refund (an excess received).
- To do or say again (and again).
noun
noun
verb
- Of fighter aircraft: to fire at a target opportunistically.
- To articulate indistinctly or mumble (words or phrases); to say inconsequential or vague things because one does not know what to say, or to stall for time.
- Of an actor in a film, stage play, etc.: to repeat the word rhubarb to create the sound of indistinct conversation; hence, to converse indistinctly, to mumble.
noun
- Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous).
- General background noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in films, stage plays, etc., by actors repeating the word rhubarb; hence, such noise in other settings.
- A Royal Air Force World War II code name for operations by aircraft (fighters and fighter-bombers) involving low-level flight to seek opportunistic targets.
- An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event.
- The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb (usually known as Rheum × hybridum), which are long, fleshy, often pale red, and with a tart taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stewed with sugar and made into jam or used in crumbles, pies, etc.
- Nonsense; false utterance.
- A brawl.
- A ditch alongside a road or highway.
- The dried rhizome and roots of Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb) or Rheum officinale (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative.
adj
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