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Torpedo Tube

Definition: Torpedo Tube

Torpedo Tube

Noun

1. A tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is fired.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Photo Album: Torpedo Tube

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Underway during the later 1930s, after being fitted with raked funnel caps and torpedo tube shields. Credit: NAVY.

Destroyer, torpedo tube. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Massachusetts, torpedo tube. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Kentucky, torpedo tube. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Oregon, torpedo tube and torpedoes. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. New York, torpedo tube. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Maine, torpedo tube. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Torpedo Tube

Language Translations for "torpedo tube"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

aparat torpilave. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тръба за изстрелване на торпили. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

torpedókilövõ csõ. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

魚雷発射管 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎょらいはっしゃか". (various references)

   

Manx

  

feddan torpaid. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orpedotay ubetay

   

Portuguese

  

tubo lança-torpedos. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

торпедный аппарат (torpedo-tube). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

torpedna cev. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

torpil kovanı, torpido kovanı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Torpedo Tube

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-o-o-p-r-t-t-u"

-3 letters: beetroot, buttered, outbreed, pottered, puttered, rebooted, rebutted, repotted, uprooted.

-4 letters: burette, doubter, dropout, erupted, obtrude, outbred, outdoer, outdrop, outport, outrode, proette, redoubt, reputed, tetrode, torpedo, treetop, trooped, trouped, tutored, uttered.

-5 letters: betted, better, bettor, booted, bootee, bruted, burped, butted, butter, debtor, deport, depute, detour, dotter, perdue, petted, petter, ported, potted, potter, poured, pouted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Torpedo Tube


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 72 70 65 64 6F      54 75 62 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01110000 01100101 01100100 01101111 00100000 01010100 01110101 01100010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#112 &#101 &#100 &#111 &#32 &#84 &#117 &#98 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 0070 0065 0064 006F      0054 0075 0062 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54818482717081254876871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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