(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through Twitter posts associated with the Donetsk People’s Republic – many of them since deleted – looking for historical references to surface-to-air missile systems, geolocating YouTube videos purporting to show the missile system in eastern Ukraine prior to the crash and verifying videos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.
Payload
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A partition method for increasing the payload of drug in the microspheres was developed by incorporating drug in both the aqueous and the organic phases.
(2) PLAGA-coated albumin microspheres released most of their payload through diffusion, and the coating eventually cracked after 7 days' incubation in saline supplemented with 0.1% Tween at 37 degrees C, enabling the release of any cDDP remaining.
(3) Heavier payloads can be accomodated at the same safe, slow speeds by increasing the size of the conduit.
(4) A fairing shields the payload, or satellite, carried by a rocket into space.
(5) The agreement also permits the ROK to operate drone aircraft having a range of 300km with payloads up to 2,500kg as well as shorter-range UAVs with no restrictions on their payloads."
(6) That macro downloads the main payload of the virus, the trojan program itself, which installs and runs on the users computer.
(7) In terms of the payload, we’ve taken bigger things than horses into space.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leased Russian Beriev BE-200 water bomber drops its payload over a fire in Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra.
(9) Typical cases are presented in terms of the distribution of two parameters, payload (m infinity) and time for complete payload release (t infinity) which also define the release rate constant (k).
(10) The rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6.35pm ET, under clear skies, but engineers long had doubts about the attempted rocket landing a few minutes later because of the rocket’s payload: an 11,000lb satellite, one of its heaviest ever.
(11) The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will only allow commercial drones to fly where the drone and its payload weigh less than 55lb, it stays within unaided sight of the pilot and each drone has its own pilot.
(12) Under the new guidelines, South Korea can now possess ballistic missiles with a range up to 800km with a higher maximum payload of 500kg.
(13) Graphic An ICBM is a missile launched by a land-based system that is intended to carry nuclear payloads.
(14) The explosion destroyed the rocket and its payload, an Amos 6 communications satellite that Facebook wanted to use to provide internet to parts of Africa.
(15) It was the secondary payload, Aolong 1 (Roaming Dragon), on that launch that raised eyebrows, and stoked fears in some quarters that the civilian space programme is just a front for more covert operations.
(16) So what if you had a very sneaky keylogger which waited until you were in a web browser and then sent its keylogging payload to its collection site?
(17) The rate of drug release increased as the initial drug payload carried by the microspheres increased.
(18) For example, additional thrusters can be strapped on to the rocket to launch heavy payloads of around 7.5 tonnes into orbit.
(19) Spoons also require a delivery system which must reach those at risk but only packets deliver an effective "payload" of ingredients.
(20) "It is now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open wifi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products."