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語源

From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mĭsʹīl, IPA: /ˈmɪs.aɪl/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: mĭsʹīl, mĭsʹəl, IPA: /ˈmɪs.(ə)l/, /-aɪl/
• Homophone: missal (GA, Canada)
• 韻: -ɪsaɪl, -ɪsəl
• ハイフネーション: mis‧sile

名詞

missile (plural missiles)

1. Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. [from 17th c.]

   The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.

   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

     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 hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.

   • 2012, Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126:

     Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.

2. (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched. [from 20th c.]

   That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.

使用する際の注意点

Weapons with rocket propulsion but without guidance after the moment of launch nearly always are called by other names, including rocket artillery and rocket-propelled grenade. The collocation guided missile is redundant in light of that fact, but it is often used for clarity because it prevents any possible ambiguity about which sense of the word missile is meant in each discussion.

反意語

• nonmissile

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参考

• projectile
• rocket

Further reading

• “missile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “missile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Missile”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 540, column 3.

アナグラム

• mislies, similes, slimies, smilies

名詞

missile n (genitive missilis); third declension

1. a thrown weapon, such as a javelin
2. (plural) presents from the Emperor thrown to the people
3. (New Latin) a missile (self-propelled projectile)
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Foederatio occidentalis Syriam missilibus percussit [1], Nuntii Latini 20.4.2018:

     USA, Britannia, Francia mane Sabbati plus centum missilia in tres metas Syriacas miserunt, in quibus arma chemica conficiebantur et tractabantur.

     The US, UK, and France Saturday morning fired over a hundred missiles at three Syrian sites in which chemical weapons were being built and stored.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

同意語

• (javelin): tēlum, iaculum

形容詞

missile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of missilis

参照

• “missilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “missilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “missile”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.