Cos'è torpedo? torpedo è torpedo
Cos'è torpedo?
- A cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater projectile launched from a submarine, aircraft, or ship and designed to detonate on contact with or in the vicinity of a target.
Een sigaarvormig, zelfrijdend onderwaterprojectiel gelanceerd vanaf een onderzeeër, vliegtuig of schip en ontworpen om te ontploffen bij contact met of in de buurt van een doelwit.
- Any of various submarine explosive devices, especially a submarine mine.
- A small explosive placed on a railroad track that is fired by the weight of the train to sound a warning of an approaching hazard.
- An explosive fired in an oil or gas well to begin or increase the flow.
- A small firework consisting of gravel wrapped in tissue paper with a percussion cap that explodes when thrown against a hard surface.
- See electric ray.
- Slang A professional assassin or thug.
- Chiefly New Jersey See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
- To attack, strike, or sink with a torpedo.
- To destroy decisively; wreck: torpedo efforts at reform.