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Synonyms for missile

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mis-uh l or, esp. British, -ahyl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɪs əl or, esp. British, -aɪl

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Définition of missile

Origin :
  • "thing thrown or discharged as a weapon," is 1650s, from missile (adj.), 1610s, "capable of being thrown," chiefly in phrase missile weapon, from French missile and directly from Latin missilis "that may be thrown or hurled" (also, in plural, as a noun, "weapons that can be thrown, darts, javelins"), from missus "a throwing, hurling," past participle of mittere "to send" (see mission). Sense of "self-propelled rocket or bomb" is first recorded 1738; the modern remote guidance projectile so called from 1945.
  • noun projectile weapon
Example sentences :
  • He heard the bullets and every form of missile from the cannon whining all about them.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • Had he remained where he was the missile would have passed him harmlessly.
  • Extract from : « War from the Inside » by Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
  • I was glad that my missile had been thrown away,—that he had not even heard the twang of the bow.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Litton cried, raising the only missile he could find, an inkstand.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • The words were flung like a missile into the face of the brute.
  • Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
  • He covered the towers with rawhide to protect them from any kind of missile.
  • Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius
  • Here the missile is inserted at the breech, according to Your direction.
  • Extract from : « The Worshippers » by Damon Francis Knight
  • But this man by some chance was hit by a missile from an engine which was on a tower at his left.
  • Extract from : « Procopius » by Procopius
  • She glanced about, as if for a missile to threaten him with.
  • Extract from : « The Coast of Chance » by Esther Chamberlain
  • Immediately, Jorisson sent his missile up to join them and detonated it.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
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