TORPEDOES

Definition: TORPEDOES

TORPEDOES

Plural

1. Of Torpedo

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "TORPEDOES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Crosswords: TORPEDOES

English words defined with "TORPEDOES": pigboat ♦ sub, submarine ♦ torpedo, torpedo boat ♦ U-boat. (references)

Specialty definitions using "TORPEDOES": ARCHITECT, MARINE ♦ BRAKE COUPLER, ROAD FREIGHT, BRAKER, PASSENGER TRAIN ♦ oil-well shooter ♦ submarine worker ♦ torpedo shooter ♦ war peril, well shooter. (references)

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Shot and Cartridge Wads, Cartridges, Projectiles, Bombs, Grenades, Torpedoes, Mines, Missiles, Similar Munitions of War, and Parts Thereof: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Bombs, Torpedoes and Kamikazes (Air Combat Photo History Series) (reference) Damn the torpedoes! : a dangerous comedy revue (reference) Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes in World War II (reference) Ship Steam Steel and Torpedoes (reference) The Battle of Stonington: Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of 1812 (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Downtown Torpedoes (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Damn the Torpedoes (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 April 1942, following modernization. Note her very heavy deck armament of two 6"/53 guns; also embrasure in her upper hull side, just in front of the forward gun, for newly-installed topside torpedo tubes. At least two torpedoes are on deck above this location, probably being prepared for stowage below. Credit: NAVY.		Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Nautilus (SS-168) on a burning Japanese aircraft carrier during the early afternoon of 4 June 1942, as seen through the submarine's periscope. Nautilus thought she had attacked Soryu, and that her torpedoes had exploded when they hit the target. Most evidence, however, is that the ship attacked was Kaga, and that the torpedoes failed to detonate. The ship shown in this wartime diorama does not closely resemble either of those carriers. Credit: NAVY.
	Operating in the Sea of Japan, 3 September 1958, while serving as a torpedo retriever in an exercise. Torpedoes are on board, and a derrick is rigged on deck aft. TSL-24 was originally the Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura, completed in 1945 and transferred to the USSR in 1947. This is a halftoned image. Credit: NAVY.		Underway during 1943-45. She is armed with two twin .50 caliber machineguns, four Mark XIII torpedoes and a single 20mm gun. This boat, the Higgins "Hellcat", was smaller, lighter and faster than regular Higgins and Elco PTs. Though PT-564 ran extensive trials, the design was not selected for production. Credit: NAVY.
	Underway at high speed in 1943-45. At the time of this photograph, she had been fitted experimentally with a pair of twin .50 caliber machineguns forward, in addition to her normal armament of four Mark XIII torpedoes, two .50 caliber twins in the superstructure and a single 20mm gun aft. This experimental boat ran extensive trials, but the design was not further produced. Credit: NAVY.		Heavily retouched photograph, circa 1864, mounted on a mat containing four sketches and the following inscriptions: (at bottom) "U.S. Iron-clad Torpedo Boat 'Spuyten Duyvil' Designed by Chf. Engr. Wm. W.W. Wood U.S.N. Genl. Inspector &c. for the Navy"; and (at top) "Constructed for the Navy Department 1864.". The sketches include (at top) two kinds of explosive shells for the ship's spar torpedoes; and (at bottom) the explosions of torpedo warheads during tests in May 1864. Credit: NAVY.
	Torpedoes on deck of ship. Credit: Library of Congress.		Charleston, S.C. Confederate torpedoes, shot, and shell in the Arsenal yard. Credit: Library of Congress.
	U.S.S. Oregon, torpedo tube and torpedoes. Credit: Library of Congress.		Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Within a month from the fixing of the quantities as above, arms, munitions and war material of all kinds, including mines and torpedoes, now in the hands of the German Government and in excess of the said quantities, shall be surrendered to the Governments of the said Powers at places to be indicated by them. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"TORPEDOES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TORPEDOES" is used about 70 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 (plural)	100%	70	39,981

Language		Translations for "TORPEDOES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		鱼雷 (torpedo). (various references)

German		torpedierte (torpedoed), torpediert. (various references)

Korean		어뢰 (torpedo). (various references)

Pig Latin		orpedoestay

Spanish		torpedos (torpedos). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"TORPEDOES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tornedoes, torpedos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "TORPEDOES" (pronounced tôrpē"dōz)
3	-d ō z	aficionados, avocados, condos, desperadoes, dodos, escudos, foreshadows, innuendoes, innuendos, overshadows, tornadoes, weirdos, widows, windows.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: doorstep, dopester, proteose, torpedos.
	-2 letters: deports, deposer, oersted, operose, poorest, redtops, reposed, roosted, spoored, sported, stooped, stooper, teredos, torpedo, trooped.
	-3 letters: deport, depose, depots, desert, despot, deters, dopers, doters, droops, epodes, erodes, pedros, pester, peters, porose, ported, posted, poster, preset, presto, prosed, redoes, redtop, repose, repots, respot, rested, rodeos, roosed, rooted, sooted, sorted.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	+3 letters: corespondent, counterposed, depositories, dessertspoon, heteroploids, photoreduces, repositioned, uprootedness.
	+4 letters: corespondents, correspondent, counterpoised, dessertspoons, lepidopterous, metamorphosed, nonrespondent, outreproduces, pteridologies.
	+5 letters: correspondents, electrodeposit, heteroploidies, nonrespondents, photodetectors, postdepression, trapezohedrons, uprootednesses.
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