PROJECTILE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Projectile

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/prədʒˈɛktəl/ /prədʒˈɛktaɪl/ Listen

Projectile

noun

A weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled. Synonym: missile.

Any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine. Synonym: rocket.

adjective

Impelling or impelled forward. "A projectile missile"

See more definitions of Projectile...

See images of 'Projectile'

Etymology of 'Projectile'

Share |

"Projectile" Quotes from Famous Books

... trivial, now gigantic—always awesome in the power and volition it revealed. One passed from the sight of a brown puddle, scooped in the surface of the street by an exploding shell, to a view of a magnificent ash tree splintered by some projectile. It is a very rare thing to see a sinister landscape, but this whole road was sinister. I used to discuss this sinister quality with a distinguished French artist who as a poilu was the infirmier, or medical service man, attached to a squad of engineers working ...

— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan

... knows exactly when or Why he came to call it tenor, But the fact remains he sang With a subtle nasal twang Just because he liked to do so (He was Carr, but not CARUSO), And with such a force of lung That, whatever tune he sung, It was like a projectile With a range of ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919 • Various

... May's cell would not have terrified the governor as much as did this inoffensive projectile. He stood in silent dismay; his mouth wide open, his eyes starting from their sockets, as if he distrusted the evidence of his own senses. What a disgrace! An instant before he would have staked his life upon the inviolability of the secret cells; ...

— Monsieur Lecoq • Emile Gaboriau

... he was passing the bandstand the educated mule, with Teddy Tucker on its back, bolted through the curtains like a projectile. The mule nearly ran over Phil, then brought up suddenly to launch both heels at him. But the Circus Boy had seen this same mule in action before, and this time Phil had discreetly ducked under ...

— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... through the room like a projectile from a coast-defense gun. Serina listened with bated breath as Horace read the confirmation. ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

More quotes...