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cannonball

/kan-uhn-bawl/US // ˈkæn ənˌbɔl //UK // (ˈkænənˌbɔːl) //

炮弹,炮仗,大炮弹,炮击

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Also cannon ball .

    • : a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
    • : Tennis. a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
    • : anything that moves with great speed, as an express train.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made from a curled-up position with the arms pressing the knees against one's chest: a cannonball dive.
    • : moving at great speed: a train known as a cannonball express.

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Examples

  • We’ll do some improvements on our existing ones, and if we start to get some traffic, we can go back and get more money and then turn that bullet into firing a cannonball.

  • The Gen X-y video boasted a giant cannonball rolling down suburban streets, as well as front woman Kim Deal singing underwater.

  • My description of Cannonball has become admittedly abstract, and the novel is sometimes inexplicably opaque.

  • A cannonball—metal or human—displaces water, but it regains its own level.

  • It is at this point that Cannonball turns toward Pynchonian conspiracy.

  • But the Republican Party has shot like a cannonball to the right.

  • This village we have just mentioned was on the east side of the river nearly opposite to the mouth of the Cannonball River.

  • They were not at all certain where they were, but they knew they were a long way from the mouth of the Little Cannonball.

  • The skunk retaliated in his own fashion; and shortly after, they moved forever out of the cabin on the Little Cannonball.

  • It is a prairie stream paralleling Cannonball and Cheyenne rivers, and largely destitute of timber.

  • Being laid about six feet thick, a cannonball could not have penetrated.