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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
torpedo
1. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States • Syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, wedge, zep • Hypernyms: sandwich 2. a professional killer who uses a gun • Syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, shooter • Derivationally related forms: shoot (for: shooter), gun (for: gun) • Hypernyms: murderer, liquidator, manslayer 3. an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) • Hypernyms: explosive device 4. a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface • Hypernyms: firework, pyrotechnic 5. a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead • Hypernyms: explosive device, alarm, alert, warning signal, alarum 6. armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target • Hypernyms: armament • Hyponyms: aerial torpedo, bangalore torpedo, homing torpedo, submarine torpedo 7. any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges • Syn: electric ray, crampfish, numbfish • Hypernyms: ray • Member Holonyms: Torpedinidae, family Torpedinidae
attack or hit with torpedoes • Hypernyms: attack, assail • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something - Somebody ----s somebody
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