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missile
  1. Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
  2. (military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Looked like the copter tried to get inside the walls, but someone shot a missile at it.”
      “The two-stage missile is equipped with solid propellant booster and sustainer rocket motors.”
      “These low-tech ways of attacking have the advantage that they do not leave a return address in the way that launching a missile would do.”
missileer
  1. One who launches missiles
  2. One who works with missiles.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “So says the scarily calm new missileer, 22-year-old lieutenant Evgeny Pavlov.”
      “Some students fail to meet the extremely high reliability standards required to qualify as a missileer.”
      “Third, I was a missileer, a trigger puller in a job with little tolerance for error.”
missileman
  1. A member of the military responsible for missile launches.
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missilery
  1. The science of missiles.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I've been around missilery for a long time, and in my mind it is the most spectacular piece of missilery that has ever been done.”
      “The album focuses on the role of top-rank designers in creating missilery and the Baikonur's infrastructure components.”
      “For this reason, missilery has accepted aerodynamically unstable vehicles which, in case of loss of thrust, flip over and break apart, destroying themselves in the air.”
missilry
  1. Alternative form of missilery
missilemen
  1. plural of missileman
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Air Force tries to keep exact launching times a secret, but with 20,000 missilemen in the area who know these times, the word gets around.”
missileers
missiles
  1. plural of missile
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Lee sought to calm the public by saying the Chinese missiles only carried dummy warheads.”
      “Well, we have for a long time provided early warning advice on the launch of ballistic missiles.”
      “Last month Pakistan tested ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads deep into India.”
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