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torpedo English

Meaning torpedo meaning

What does torpedo mean?
Definitions in simple English

torpedo Noun

— A missile with explosives that is shaped like a cigar that moves by itself, sometimes built with a targeting device. It is a weapon used in sea battle and is used to destroy ships overseas. The torpedo slammed into the submarine and in one hit, it destroyed the machine.

torpedo

— noun armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target — noun a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead — noun a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface — noun an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) — verb attack or hit with torpedoes — noun (= electric ray) any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges — noun (= gun) a professional killer who uses a gun — noun (= bomber) 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

Synonyms torpedo synonyms

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torpedo English » English

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Conjugation torpedo conjugation

How do you conjugate torpedo?

torpedo · verb

Examples torpedo examples

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Simple sentences

The ship that Tom's grandfather was on was sunk by a torpedo.
The ship Tom's grandfather was on was sunk by a torpedo.
The first air striking unit consisted of 50 Zero fighters, 40 torpedo bombers and 81 dive bombers.

Movie subtitles

It's guys like this torpedo of yours that cause all the trouble.
Torpedo Squadron 6 from tower.
You mind telling me how you got the plane and torpedo parts into the Canal Zone area?
Torpedo tracks starboard, sir.
When a torpedo hits so small a ship as a destroyer, the result is bound to be fairly devastating, if not fatal.
If a torpedo ever connected with this ship, we'd go up like a match lighted to cellophane. You ain't got a chance.
Now, Captain, will you tell us in your own words exactly what happened when the torpedo hit the tanker?
Torpedo three points of starboard bow, 1,000 yards.
Will you be responsible for the safety of the ship if we get struck with a torpedo amidships?
If they think we're sinking, they won't waste a torpedo on us. They may surface.
Captain, last torpedo's on board.
With one torpedo.
Torpedo setting, 12 feet, high speed.
I was washing my hands when the torpedo smacked us.
Push the torpedo boat.
Go take care of your torpedo boat.
If a torpedo ever connected with this ship, we'd go up like a match to cellophane.
Torpedo los!
Captain, will you tell us exactly what happened when the torpedo hit the tanker? She caught fire.
Will you be responsible for the ship if we get struck with a torpedo amidships?
Caught with my. I was washing my hands when the torpedo smacked us.
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three.
I know you're anxious to prove your theory of the motor torpedo boat.
We haven't got enough steel helmets to go around so issue them to your gunners and torpedo men.
And the Russian winter will be over, and those ships will still be lying in the dockyards at Izmir and Gallipoli, still waiting for their new guns and torpedo-tubes.
If a torpedo ever connected with this ship, we'd go up like a match lighted to cellophane.
If they think we're sinking, they won't waste a torpedo on us.
There are close two torpedo boats communicating with an airplane it patrols.
You'd never know because on screen the whole thing played on a torpedo boat.
I thought you enjoyed driving that horrible little jet-propelled torpedo.
Ladies: a toy torpedo!
Aft to torpedo room, report.
A mass of jelly-like stuff came out of the thing and caught our torpedo.
We'll never get a torpedo through that.
Maybe not a torpedo.

News and current affairs

NEW YORK: Rejection by the US Senate of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a torpedo aimed at the fragile global nuclear arms control regime built in the final decades of the Cold War.
When China proposed the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to help recycle some of the surfeit of global savings to where financing is badly needed, the US sought to torpedo the effort.
Will Rising Interest Rates Torpedo Stock and House Prices?
In years past, only governments could torpedo candidates for Europe's top jobs, but now the parliament also will be able to reject them.
After 70 days in harbor, the Struma was forced to return to the Black Sea - where it was sunk by a torpedo whose origin remains a mystery.

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