torpedo in English

noun
1
a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile designed to be fired from a ship or submarine or dropped into the water from an aircraft and to explode on reaching a target.
All aircraft dropped their bombs or torpedoes over the target, but on the return leg Beaufort A9-217 lost contact with the rest of the squadron and failed to return.
2
an electric ray.
Those closest to the lagoon entrance offer the best chance of finding a resting leopard shark or torpedo ray , especially early in the morning.
verb
1
attack or sink (a ship) with a torpedo or torpedoes.
Unfortunately, the ship was torpedoed while still in the Baltic Sea and sank.

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1. The torpedo needed careful maintenance.

2. Its appearance is similar to the Gulf torpedo (Torpedo sinuspersici), but it is duller in coloration.

3. Shenyang J-5 torpedo bomber - A single aircraft modified to carry a single torpedo under the fuselage centreline.

4. Indianapolis shot down one torpedo plane.

5. Malaya fired a torpedo at Markgraf at 19:05, but the torpedo missed due to the long range.

6. Chiyoda responded by launching a torpedo.

7. It must have been that last torpedo.

8. The torpedo boat sheared through the waves.

9. Forward torpedo, stand by to fire.

10. The torpedo was only narrowly avoided.

11. In 2006, Hydra Head Records reissued Agoraphobic Nosebleed's 6" PCP Torpedo as a double disc set entitled PCP Torpedo/ANbRx.

12. The torpedo homed in on its target.

13. Possibly a torpedo had hit the fuel storage.

14. The torpedo boat Cigno was able to escape.

15. The battle management system Omnibus-BDRM controls all combat activities, processing data and commanding the torpedo and missile-torpedo weapons.

16. • HMCS IROQUOIS Accidental Torpedo Discharge [ 16 April 2003 ]

17. " Forward torpedo, flood doors one and two. "

18. I can't raise the forward torpedo compartment.

19. The Shiratsuyu class were the first Japanese warships to be completed with quadruple torpedo mounts and telephone communications to the torpedo station.

20. DB-3TP Seaplane torpedo bomber built in 1938.

21. Ice could freeze up their torpedo release mechanisms.

22. His ship was blown up by a torpedo.

23. 1:43 DIECAST 1948 TUCKER TORPEDO BY Brooklin

24. Another torpedo hit Wichita but did not explode.

25. Botha Mk I : Four-seat reconnaissance, torpedo bomber aircraft.

26. A Kormoran torpedo nearly sheared off the Sydney's bow.

27. He was accused of trying to torpedo the talks.

28. The French navy, an extensive user of torpedo boats, built its first torpedo boat destroyer in 1899, with the Durandal-class 'torpilleur d'escadre'.

29. The aft torpedo launcher's working, but that's about it.

30. The enemy's vessel was hulled with only one torpedo.

31. The transporter cannot differentiate between Dr. McCoy and the torpedo.

32. North Korean Torpedo boat that supposedly sunk the Baltimore.

33. Chief of the Watch, secure for battle stations torpedo.

34. They' re wondering why the torpedo hasn' t exploded

35. 3 Ice could freeze up their torpedo release mechanisms.

36. Noshiro was hit by a dud Mark 13 aerial torpedo.

37. Device at lateral heated ingot mould including adjustable radial torpedo points

38. A torpedo fired at the German pre-dreadnoughts failed to hit.

39. These attacks are seen as an effort to torpedo the talks.

40. Hawaii's Bodysurfing HUB for all torpedo people and fans alike

41. • HMCS IROQUOIS Accidental Torpedo Discharge [ News Release - 16 April 2003 ]

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43. Military officials believed that the harbor was too shallow for torpedo launches.

44. The torpedo director tower 1 inch of nickel steel all around.

45. 23 The torpedo struck home on the hull of the ship.

46. Originally torpedo bombers first then high level bombers and dive bombers.

47. As part of our defensive strategy, 31 developed a new photon torpedo.

48. By 1939, the torpedo tubes had been removed in all four ships.

49. We use six aircraft carriers torpedo planes high-level bombers, dive bombers.

50. A torpedo holed the ship below the water and it quickly sank.