OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19176

missile

/ˈmɪs.aɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
proyectil
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried h…
The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
misil
A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
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