missile
nounEtymology
From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.
- borrowed from missile
Definitions
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone,…
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
- The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
- Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.
A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
- That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
The neighborhood
- antonymnonmissile
- neighbormess
- neighbormessage
- neighbormessenger
- neighbormission
- neighbormissionary
- neighbormissive
- neighborprojectile
- neighborrocket
- neighborair-to-air missile
- neighborair-to-surface missile
- neighboranti-ballistic missile
- neighborantiballistic missile
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at missile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at missile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at missile
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA