guided missile
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈɡaɪdɪd ˈmɪsəl/
- Specialized
:
misil guiado
- The military launched a guided missile during the training exercise to demonstrate its precision capabilities.
- guided missile destroyers
- guided missile frigates
- laser-guided missile
It's a protein that actually is designed to act like incoming guided missile attacks on the inside wall of our gut.
- It's a protein that actually is designed to act like incoming guided missile attacks on the inside wall of our gut.
Examples
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Global problems would be dealt with not with armies, but with precision-guided missiles.
Academic text (2008) -
It's some kind of new bullet, It's more like a guided missile, chief.
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We know how you feel, but we're trying to protect our countries from a guided missile attack.
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Their bombers are bad enough, But the guided missiles are the major threat.
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I'll arrange for the secret transportation of the guided missile to the testing grounds.
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Among the weapons in use, he said, were 500-pound guided missiles intended to create extremely targeted explosions.
Blog text (14) -
Precision-guided missiles and bombs, once a small portion of the arsenal, came to dominate American air campaigns.
Academic text (2000) -
The next day, it fired guided missiles into the waters off Taiwan's Kaohsiung harbor.
Academic text (1999) -
The IRGC navy alone has more than forty light patrol boats and ten guided missile patrol boats.
Academic text (2010) -
A precision-guided missile struck Jean-Do's limousine as it neared a lakeside resort where talks were scheduled.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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4.9
A weapon with its own engine that flies to a target and explodes
How Guided
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4.1
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'guided' (controlled/directed) modifies 'missile' (a rocket-propelled weapon), so the combined meaning — a missile whose course is controlled — is directly derivable from the constituents. This adjective + noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
The noun guided missile combines guided, meaning 'steered', and missile, meaning 'a flying weapon', to create a simple image: a weapon that flies and can be steered like a remote-control plane toward a chosen 'target'. That's why it means 'a weapon that can be steered while it flies to hit a target'.