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Definition: Motor Torpedo Boat |
Motor Torpedo BoatNoun1. A small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(ropeller) T(orpedo) boat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Military & Defense | A high speed 60 to 100 ft motorboat mounting two or four torpedo tubes and antiaircraft machine guns and equipped with depth cahrges. . . called also --, --. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Motor Torpedo BoatSynonyms: mosquito boat (n), mosquito craft (n). (additional references) |
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![]() | Running at high speed, during exercises off the U.S. East Coast with other units of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Five, 12 July 1942. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Underway with other units of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Five, during maneuvers off the U.S. East Coast, 12 July 1942. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Maneuvering off the U.S. East Coast with other units of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Five, 12 July 1942. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Leads other units of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Five during exercises off the U.S. East Coast, 12 July 1942. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Operating in the Central Solomon Islands with other PT boats from the Rendova motor torpedo boat base, January 1944. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Seated on board a motor torpedo boat (PT) in the Leyte-Samar area, Philippine Islands, 1945. Credit: NAVY. |
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| 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. |
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motor torpedo boat | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "motor torpedo boat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | vedette-torpilleur (mosquito boat), vedette rapide (mosquito boat), vedette lance-torpilles (mosquito boat), vedette de combat (mosquito boat). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otormay orpedotay oatbay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-m-o-o-o-o-o-p-r-r-t-t-t" | |
-5 letters: motorboater. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 74 6F 72      54 6F 72 70 65 64 6F      42 6F 61 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110100 01101111 01110010 00100000 01010100 01101111 01110010 01110000 01100101 01100100 01101111 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o t o r   T o r p e d o   B o a t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0074 006F 0072      0054 006F 0072 0070 0065 0064 006F      0042 006F 0061 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781868184254818482717081236816786 |
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