(n.) An engine somewhat resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.
(n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In that time it has seen the Call of Duty brand catapulted from a modestly successful cinematic shooter to the biggest entertainment property in the world.
(2) They were among six young pro-democracy candidates who were catapulted into office in what was widely interpreted as a rejection of Beijing’s growing interference in the former British colony’s affairs.
(3) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
(4) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
(5) Dennis Stevenson Chairman, HBOS The merger of the Bank of Scotland with Halifax seven years ago catapulted the 63-year-old, who had been chairman of the former building society for only two years, into the chairman's role at one of the UK's largest retail banks.
(6) Tzomet, benefiting from a popular clean-government and anti-religious platform, catapulted from two to eight seats.
(7) A method of modelling head-on car collisions at the catapult MTS 858.05 was developed.
(8) Planes launched into the skies by catapults running on green energy, then cruising efficiently in self-organised flocks across oceans and continents.
(9) Lord Myners, who sat on the court until he was catapulted into government during the 2008 banking crisis, said: "It is essential before we transfer additional powers to the Bank of England that the Bank becomes more transparent by publishing the minutes of the court before and after the crisis and that henceforth all minutes are published".
(10) Manchester City had not won since Sergio Agüero’s last goal, away against Swansea City on 24 September, but seven games later the Argentina striker found the net twice in the first half to catapult Pep Guardiola’s team past an uninspiring West Bromwich Albion and back to the top of the table, where Arsenal had momentarily displaced them earlier in the afternoon.
(11) Tony Hayward , the former BP boss pilloried by US politicians over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year, launched his comeback with a £1bn stock market float that will catapult him back into the oil business.
(12) It was a world into which he was unexpectedly catapulted while he was still a student in Liverpool.
(13) Other Greeks with similar experiences said the far-rightists, catapulted into parliament on a ticket of tackling "immigrant scum" were simply doing the job of a defunct state that had left a growing number feeling overwhelmed by a "sense of powerlessness".
(14) The expanding database of designs includes various lampshades and toys, an Iron Man facemask and a model of the Da Vinci catapult.
(15) It inspired a sequel, made famous an obscure movie actor who impersonated Jolson and catapulted Jolson himself back to Broadway.
(16) More rail commuters will be catapulted into the £5,000-a-year season ticket bracket, after the fare rises for 2014 were revealed.
(17) Within months of that election he was appointed as Miliband’s parliamentary bag carrier (private secretary) after supporting him in the leadership contest, before finding himself catapulted a year later into one of the most senior posts in the shadow cabinet as business secretary.
(18) A former non-executive director with Shell, Lord Oxburgh was catapulted into the chairman's role after the company was forced to reveal it had overstated the extent of its reserves.
(19) The TV landscape has changed since more than 20 million viewers tuned in to discover the identity of JR Ewing's assailant, but with an average weekly audience of nearly 10 million, Broadchurch catapulted itself into ITV's top tier next to Coronation Street and Britain's Got Talent.
(20) Heat we know, and we talk about it no end,” said Nick Winser, a former head of Britain’s National Grid who chairs the Energy Systems Catapult , a new UK technology and innovation centre in the energy field.
Missile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
(n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(2) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(3) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(4) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(5) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
(6) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(7) Every story evolves with the speed of fact, not commentary or speculation.” In the case of MH17, Storyful published a blog outlining the key steps it took in verifying the information it gathered from social media, including searching through Twitter posts associated with the Donetsk People’s Republic – many of them since deleted – looking for historical references to surface-to-air missile systems, geolocating YouTube videos purporting to show the missile system in eastern Ukraine prior to the crash and verifying videos from the crash site.
(8) Otherwise, the United States will continue to work with allies and partners to tighten national and international sanctions to impede North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes."
(9) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
(10) During the Persian Gulf war, the entire Israeli population was under the threat of chemical missiles.
(11) It was suggested to Abbott that a surface to air missile could realistically only have come from Russia.
(12) Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action yesterday, missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.
(13) Although missiles belonging to Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza do sometimes fall short, there was no visible evidence of debris from broken Palestinian rockets in the school.
(14) Analysis of 314 cases of penetrating craniocerebral missile injuries in civilians revealed a high rate of early mortality, with 228 victims having died at the scene and a further 38 dead within 3 hours.
(15) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(16) Yonhap news agency cited a senior South Korean official as saying the missile, with a range of 800km (500 miles), would act as a “strong deterrent” against provocations from the North.
(17) The helicopter strayed more than a mile into Turkish airspace, but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, Turkish officials said at the time.
(18) The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the crisis was officially ended – though, unknown to the public, only officially.
(19) Outside-funded overseas travel was also declared, including a visit to the Paris Air show for the Tory MP Jack Lopresti and his researcher, paid for by the global missile company MBDA.
(20) Controlled ventilation is playing an increasingly important role in the management of some missile wounds of the head.