1) American invention 2) Attack or hit with torpedoes 3) Car body style 4) Cigar-shaped ammo 5) Cigar-shaped missile 6) Fictional scientist 7) Fictional warrant officer 8) Fish 9) Fishy weapon of war 10) Gangland hitman 11) Gun for hire 12) Gunman 13) Gunslinger 14) Hero sandwich 15) Hired gun 16) Hit man
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1) Crampfish 2) Destroy 3) Grinder 4) Gunman 5) Gunslinger 6) Hitman 7) Hoagie 8) Hoagy 9) Numbfish 10) Ruin 11) Sub 12) Triggerman 13) Zep
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- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
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The modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it. Historically, it was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive or fish torpedo; colloquially called a fish. T...
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[car] The torpedo body style was a type of automobile body used from the early twentieth century until the mid-1930s; it fell quickly into disuse by the World War II. The name was introduced in 1908 when a Belgian car dealer Captain Theo Masui, the London-based importer of French Gregoire cars, designed a streamlined body and called it `The...
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[genus] Torpedo is a genus of rays, commonly known as electric rays, torpedo rays, or torpedoes. It is the sole genus of the family Torpedinidae. They are slow-moving bottom-dwellers capable of generating electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism. Between 15 and 22 extant species are described. The naval weapon known as the torpedo was...
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[petroleum] A torpedo is an explosive device used, especially in the early days of the petroleum industry, to fracture the surrounding rock at the bottom of an oil well to stimulate the flow of oil and to remove built-up paraffin wax that would restrict the flow. Earlier torpedoes used gunpowder, but the use of nitroglycerin eventually beca...
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• (n.) An automobile with a torpedo body. • (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil. • (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current,...
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cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater missile, launched from a submarine, surface vessel, or airplane and designed for exploding upon contact with ... [8 related articles]
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Self-propelled underwater missile, invented 1866 by English engineer Robert Whitehead. Modern torpedoes are homing missiles; some resemble mines in that...
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The RN has 2 types of torpedo in service. The Sting Ray is a fast lightweight and manouverable torpedo designed to be dropped from helicopters and escort ships for use against submarines. The Spearfish is a heavyweight torpedo fired from submarines against ship or submarine targets.
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Origin: L. Torpedo, -inis, from torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid. See Torpid. ... 1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
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This cigar style is characterized by the funnel shape at both ends of the cigar. The size standard of a Torpedo is typically 46 ring gauge X 6" in length.
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Tor·pe'do noun ; plural Torpedoes . [ Latin torpedo , -inis , from torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid. See Torpid .] 1. (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are rel...
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Tor·pe'do transitive verb to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. London Spectator.
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A torpedo is a missile which swims through water to its target. They are used against ships and are carried by submarines, helicopters, aircraft and ships.
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A torpedo is a cylindrical or cigar-shaped vessel carrying a charge of high explosive and used as a weapon in naval warfare. Torpedoes were invented around 1870, and are effectively a small submarine comprised of three sections: the warhead, the firing mechanism and the engine equipment. Torpedoes suffer at long range from their relatively slow rat...
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Torpedo is British slang for a violent thug or paid murderer.
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A small explosive device strapped to the top of the rail to alert an approaching train of danger ahead. A torpedo creates a loud noise upon contact with a locomotive wheel, signaling the engineer to reduce speed to 20 mph or less; the train cannot resume its original speed until it has traveled at least a mile beyond where it encountered the device...
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[n] - armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target 2. [v] - attack or hit with torpedoes
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noun armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
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(fish) Any species of the order Torpediniformes of mainly tropical rays (cartilaginous fishes), whose electric organs between the pectoral fin and the head can give a powerful shock. They can grow to 180 cm/6 ft in length. The electric ray Torpedo nobiliana is found on b...
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(missile) Self-propelled underwater missile, invented 1866 by English engineer Robert Whitehead. Modern torpedoes are homing missiles; some resemble mines in that they lie on the seabed until activated by the acoustic signal of a passing ship. A television camera enables them to be rem...
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An apparatus at the discharge stage of the screw to finish homogenizing and blending the melt.
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