torpedo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: * Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). In the military sense coined by Robert Fulton in 1805. Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).
* (type of car): From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.
Base: torpeō
Affixes: -ēdō
Inflected forms:
form: torpedoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: torpedos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: torpedoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: torpedos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: torpedoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: torpedoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: torpedoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
pos: noun
examples: Faire Queene, forbeare to angle for the fiſh, / Which being caught, ſtrikes him that takes it dead, / I meane that vile Torpedo, Gaueſton, / That now I hope flotes on the Iriſh Seas
The man has been changed into an artificial monster by the station in which he is born, and the consequent homage that benumbed his faculties like the torpedo's touch […].
"A childhood Misadventure with a Torpedo," Dixon, with a brief move of his head toward Mason, confides, "— thus his Sensitivity at all References to the,"— whispering,— "electrickal!"
gloss: A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel quickly underwater and is used as a weapon.
pos: noun
examples: I stood rigid, spellbound, watching the white wake of the torpedo. It struck us on the starboard side almost amidships. The vessel rocked as though the sea beneath it had been uptorn by a mighty volcano.
Four Japanese torpedo boats launch an attack on the Suvorov. Despite burning steadily for several hours and now taking a torpedo to the stern, the ship still lashes out at its attackers with a few remaining guns. With no pressing need to continue the attack to closer range, the torpedo boats fall back, noting the position for a night attack if Suvorov survives that long.
And if fate should turn her back on them, or turn away from them, leaving them to their own devices, and should they find themselves be sore afraid, then they would simply sail away to the other side of the world. They would ride like the wind. They would sail once more into the breach and damn the torpedos! God save the Queen! And the devil take the hindmost!
gloss: A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel quickly underwater and is used as a weapon.
pos: noun
gloss: A naval mine.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: An explosive device buried underground, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Synonym of submarine sandwich.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
US
gloss: A professional gunman or assassin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
pos: noun
gloss: An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
pos: noun
examples: In several human neurodegenerative diseases, focal axonal swellings on Purkinje cells – known as torpedoes – have been associated with Purkinje cell loss. Interestingly, torpedoes are also reported to appear transiently during development in rat cerebellum.
gloss: A woman's shoe with a pointed toe.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural-normally
slang
gloss: A large breast; a breast with a large nipple.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural-normally
slang
gloss: A marijuana cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A marijuana cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The anti-German riots which erupted simultaneously in many countries in response to the torpedoing of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 reflected shifts in the status of minorities in multi-ethnic societies at a time of escalating nationalist emotions.
gloss: To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a powerful attack.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.
The Toronto-based company[…] promised a certain fantasy, particularly aimed at men: a list of women ready and willing to have an affair; a secret good time outside the bounds of one’s partnership; self-proclaimed extensive security measures to prevent torpedoing one’s domestic life.
The decision (5-4) by the nine-member bench has torpedoed Srettha’s troubled government, which has failed to gain support in parliament and among the Thai public.
“It was really like a festering sore for quite some time,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, who said the disagreement over Khalistan “has really torpedoed the relationship.”
Related words: torpid
torpedinous
Derived words: antitorpedo
Bangalore torpedo
land torpedo
narcotorpedo
neato torpedo
spar torpedo
strawpedo
supertorpedo
torp
torpedinoid
torpedo boat
torpedo body
torpedo bomber
torpedo boom
torpedo catcher
torpedo cruiser
torpedoist
torpedo juice
torpedolike
torpedoman
torpedo net
torpedoproof
torpedo punt
torpedo ram
torpedo roll
torpedo stern
torpedo tube
Torpex
untorpedoed
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: torpilë
lang: Albanian
word: silur
lang: Arabic
word: طُرْبِيد
roman: ṭurbīd
lang: Armenian
word: տորպեդ
roman: torped
lang: Azerbaijani
word: torpeda
lang: Belarusian
word: тарпе́да
roman: tarpjéda
lang: Belarusian
word: тарпэ́да
roman: tarpéda
lang: Bengali
word: টর্পেডো
roman: ṭorpeḍō
lang: Bulgarian
word: торпе́до
roman: torpédo
lang: Catalan
word: torpede
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 魚雷 /鱼雷
roman: yúléi
lang: Czech
word: torpédo
lang: Danish
word: torpedo
lang: Dutch
word: torpedo
lang: Esperanto
word: torpedo
lang: Estonian
word: torpeedo
lang: Finnish
word: torpedo
lang: French
word: torpille
lang: Galician
word: torpedo
lang: Georgian
word: ტორპედო
roman: ṭorṗedo
lang: German
word: Torpedo
lang: Greek
word: τορπίλη
roman: torpíli
lang: Gujarati
word: નૌકાનાશક
roman: naukānāśak
lang: Hindi
word: टॉरपीडो
roman: ṭŏrpīḍo
lang: Hindi
word: टारपीडो
roman: ṭārpīḍo
lang: Hungarian
word: torpedó
lang: Icelandic
word: tundurskeyti
lang: Indonesian
word: torpedo
lang: Italian
word: siluro
lang: Italian
word: torpedine
lang: Japanese
word: 魚雷
roman: gyorai
lang: Kazakh
word: торпеда
roman: torpeda
lang: Korean
word: 어뢰
roman: eoroe
lang: Kyrgyz
word: торпеда
roman: torpeda
lang: Latvian
word: torpēda
lang: Lithuanian
word: torpeda
lang: Macedonian
word: торпе́до
roman: torpédo
lang: Malay
word: torpedo
lang: Māori
word: tōpīto
lang: Marathi
word: टॉरपीडो
roman: ṭŏrpīḍo
lang: Central Melanau
word: topedo
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: torpedo
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اَژْدَر
roman: aždar
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تُرْپی
roman: torpi
lang: Polish
word: torpeda
lang: Portuguese
word: torpedo
lang: Romanian
word: torpilă
lang: Romanian
word: torpedo
lang: Russian
word: торпе́да
roman: torpéda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: торпе́до
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: torpédo
lang: Slovak
word: torpédo
lang: Slovene
word: torpedo
lang: Spanish
word: torpedo
lang: Swedish
word: torped
lang: Tajik
word: торпеда
roman: torpeda
lang: Thai
word: ตอร์ปิโด
roman: dtɔɔ-bpì-doo
lang: Turkish
word: torpido
lang: Ukrainian
word: торпе́да
roman: torpéda
lang: Uyghur
word: تورپېدا
roman: torpëda
lang: Uzbek
word: torpeda
lang: Vietnamese
word: ngư lôi
lang: Volapük
word: torped