Projectile

Definition: Projectile

Projectile

Adjective

1. Impelling or impelled forward; "a projectile force"; "a projectile missile".

Noun

1. A weapon that is thrown or projected.

Date "projectile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply -- the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Aerospace	1. Any object, especially a missile, fired, thrown, launched, or otherwise projected in any manner, such as a bullet, a guided rocket missile, a sounding rocket, a pilotless airplane, etc.2. Originally, an object, such as a bullet or artillery shell, projected by an applied external force. (references)
Military	An object capable of being propelled by a force normally from a gun, and continuing in motion by virtue of its kinetic energy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A projectile is any object sent through the air by the application of some force. In a general sense, even a football or baseball may be considered a projectile, but in practical action most projectiles are designed as weapons. Arrows, darts, spears, and similar weapons are fired using pure mechanical force applied by another solid object; conversely, other weapons use the compression or expansion of gases as their motive force. Blowguns and pneumatic rifles use compressed gases, while most other guns and firearms utilize expanding gases liberated by sudden chemical reactions. Although blowguns use small darts, most types of guns and firearms hurl bullets, pellets, or shot made of a metal, usually lead, that are designed to deform and fragment inside a target, causing significant damage. Items like arrows, hand darts, and spears are generally tipped with sharp metallic or lithic artifacts called projectile points that allow them to more easily penetrate a target, although some types of arrows used for hunting are designed to stun or kill through shock rather than to penetrate.

Projectiles designed to be non-lethal, for example for use against riots, include rubber bullets and flexible baton rounds.

See bow (weapon), atlatl, and gunpowder.

Synonym: Projectile

Synonym: missile (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arms	Missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt.
Regression	Adjective: propelled; Verb: propelling; Verb:.; propulsive, projectile.
	Missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit, brickbat, shot;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Arrowheads and Projectile Points (reference) Early Archaic Projectile Points & Hunting Patterns in the Lower Illinois Valley (reference) Flint Blades and Projectile Points of the North American Indian (reference) Late Paleoindian Occupation of the Southern Rocky Mountains: Early Holocene Projectile Points and Land Use in the High Country (reference) New York Projectile Points: A Typology and Nomenclature (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Loading drill on one of the ship's 5"/51 secondary battery guns, 1915. Note projectile, bagged powder charge, rammer, opened gun breech mechanism, sighting telescope on left side of gun, and telephone "talker" standing near the gun. Also note that one of the guncrewmen has bare feet. Credit: NAVY.		U.S.S. Vesuvius, projectile carriers. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Theodor Horydczak and family. Theodor Horydczak standing next to 12-inch projectile. Credit: Library of Congress.		Armor Plate Plant & Naval Projectile Factory site, Charleston, W. Va. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Bomb; explode; explosion; atom bomb; bombshell; charge; device; explosive; grenade; hydrogen bomb; mine; missile; nuclear bomb; projectile; rocket; shell; ticker; torpedo; submarine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Minorities	Czech Republic	The skinheads stabbed one of the injured four times, while the other was struck in the head by a projectile fired from an air pistol. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Projectile" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Projectile" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	37	56,631

Expressions using "projectile": Compression projectile ♦ incendiary projectile ♦ projectile detail ♦ projectile lathe ♦ projectile weapons ♦ Subcaliber projectile ♦ tracer projectile. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "projectile": projectile-firing, projectile-vomited.
	Ending with "projectile": non-projectile.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "projectile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		predhë (missile, shell, shot), shtytëse, raketë (battledore, missile, racket, racquet, rocket), i gjuajtshëm, i flakshëm (disposable). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقذوف (libeller), ‏قذيفة (bomb, grenade, missile, projection, rocket, shell), ‏صاروخ (missile, rocket, skyrocket), ‏دافع (advocate, apologize, assert, buckler, champion, cushion, defend, guard, guard against, hold off, impetus, impulse, impulsive, inducement, motive, object, payer, propellant, propeller, propulsive, repulsive, score, stand for, stick up for, urge, vindicate). (various references)

Bulgarian		снаряд (pellet, round, shell, whizbang), ракета (racket, racquet, rocket, skyrocket), граната (shell, whizbang), метателно оръжие, метателен (missile, propellant, propellent, propulsive). (various references)

Chinese		子弹头. (various references)

Czech		projektil, vrhací, střela (bullet, kick, missile, shaft, slug), metací. (various references)

Danish		projektil (bullet), imploderende beklaedningslag (collapsing liner, tamper). (various references)

Dutch		imploderende liner (collapsing liner, tamper). (various references)

Farsi		پرتابه (Missile, Rocket, Shot), موشک (Missile, Rocket), مرمی , جسم پرتاب شونده . (various references)

Finnish		luhistuva ulkovaippa (collapsing liner, tamper), junttakerros (collapsing liner, tamper). (various references)

French		projectile. (various references)

German		geschoss (bullet, floor, level, missile, shot, slug, story). (various references)

Greek		βλήμα (cast, missile). (various references)

Hebrew		טיל (missile, rocket). (various references)

Hungarian		lövedék (ammunition, ball, bullet, crump, missile, munition, round, shell, shot, slug), hajító (missile). (various references)

Indonesian		granat (grenade, shell). (various references)

Italian		proiettile (bullet, missile, shell, shot, slug). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		飛�"具 (firearms, missile, projectile weapon), 飛び�"具 (firearms, missile, projectile weapon), 榴弾 (high-explosive projectile), 巨弾 (huge projectile). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょ� �" (huge projectile), りゅう� �" (high-explosive projectile, stray bullet), とびどうぐ (firearms, missile, projectile weapon). (various references)

Korean		두사물. (various references)

Pig Latin		ojectilepray

Portuguese		projétil (ball, bomb, bullet, missile, shell, slingshot), que projeta, que pode ser projetado, bala (bale, bullet, candy, missile, pile, pill, shell, slingshot, stack), bainha em implosão (collapsing liner, tamper), bainha colapsante (collapsing liner, tamper). (various references)

Romanian		proiectil (bullet, missile, shell, shot). (various references)

Russian		метательный (missile, propellent, propelling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		projektil (missile), koji baca. (various references)

Spanish		proyectil (missile, shell). (various references)

Swedish		projektil, kast- (missile, plunging), imploderande beklädnad (collapsing liner, tamper), driv- (floatable, floaty, propelling). (various references)

Turkish		roket (rocket), mermi (bullet, missile), kurşun (bullet, lead, plumbic, plumbo-, Saturn), itici (impulsive, propellent, propelling, propulsive, pusher, pushing, repellent, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, unattractive, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovely, unprepossessing), fırlatıcı (launcher, projector, trap), atma (banishment, bragging, cast, chuck, ejectment, elimination, fling, heave, heaving, hurl, inset, ouster, pelt, postpone, shoot, shy, tell us another, throw, throwing, volley), atıcı (battery, brag, braggart, four-flusher, good shoot, marksman, pistol, pitcher, shooter, swaggerer, swashbuckler, thrower). (various references)

Ukrainian		снаряд (apparatus, shell), налітаюча частка, метальний (casting, nonshattering, propellant, propellent). (various references)

Vietnamese		phóng ra, vật phóng ra, có thể bắn ra, bắn ra có thể phóng ra, đạn bắn ra. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "projectile": projectiles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Projectile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Preteceille. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "projectile" (pronounced pruje"ktul or pruje"ktīl)
5	-e" k t u l	rectal.
4	-k t u l	artiodactyl, ductile, fractal, tactile.
3	-t u l	accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle.
3	-t ī l	reptile.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-j-l-o-p-r-t"
	-2 letters: leprotic, petrolic.
	-3 letters: coterie, ejector, elector, electro, joltier, peloric, perlite, petiole, picotee, poitrel, politer, prelect, project, receipt, rejoice, reptile, reticle, tiercel.
	-4 letters: ceiler, cerite, citole, coiler, colter, copier, copter, creole, eloper, erotic, etoile, jilter, jolter, lector, lictor, loiter, pelite, pelter, petrel, petrol, piecer, pierce, piolet, poetic, police, polite, projet, protei, recept, recipe, recite.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-j-l-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: projectiles.
	+2 letters: projectively.
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Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Sandy Hook Projectile from Ten Inch Disappearing Gun Striking Water (1897)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
projectile motion	111	projectile radar reflector	3
motion problem projectile	18	characteristic motion projectile	3
definition motion projectile	17	lab motion projectile	3
motion problem projectile sample	14	fuzes projectile	3
introduction motion projectile	13	physics projectile	3
projectile	13	equation projectile	2
formula motion projectile	12	discussion motion projectile	2
point projectile	11	motion problem projectile solution	2
projectile vomiting	11	launcher projectile	2
equation motion projectile	10	motion projectile projectile tube	2
motion physics projectile	9	baby projectile vomit	2
motion projectile summary	4	point projectile texas	2
infant projectile vomiting	3	equation motion physics projectile	2
motion problem projectile solved	3	motion projectile vector	2
motion problem projectile sample solution	3	horizontal motion projectile vertical	2
projectile vomit	3
		horizontal motion projectile vertical	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Projectile

Definition: Projectile

Projectile

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Projectile

Specialty Definition: Projectile

Synonym: Projectile

Synonyms within Context: Projectile

Arms

Regression

Crosswords: Projectile

Modern Usage: Projectile

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Photo Album: Projectile

Sounds Captioned with "Projectile".

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Usage Frequency: Projectile

Expression: Projectile

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Projectile

Modern Translation: Projectile

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Derivations & Misspellings: Projectile

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Rhyming with "Projectile"

Anagrams: Projectile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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