silo
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪloʊ/
- Specialized
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silo de misiles
- The base also hosted a wing of Atlas ICBMs, buried in silos around the city.
- missile silo
- silo-based missiles
They're in silos, underground silos, across the Midwest and the West.
- They're in silos, underground silos, across the Midwest and the West.
- Will those at the missile silos decide to engage and fire?
- Or town in Kansas where we have a higher concentration of nuclear, of silos.
- We had a, we had a silo blow up where the, the capsule went up and, and landed somewhere that didn't go off.
Examples
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They're in silos, underground silos, across the Midwest and the West.
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There was some kind of explosion out at the missile silo...
Fiction book (1994) -
We're going in to check out Missile Silo 8.
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We can now see the missile silo itself beyond the door.
Fiction book (1994) -
His first job was as a nuclear silo operative.
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All nuclear silos are online, Sir.
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Preparing silo three for firing test missile.
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Erin, we have breaking news from the old missile silo on the edge of town.
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Captain, they're firing at a nuclear missile silo in central Montana.
Fiction book (1994) -
The military personnel inspected the launch codes at the silo before the missile test.
Synonyms
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5.9
A place where weapons and military equipment are made and kept
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4.8
A military place where people keep, fix, and send rockets into the sky
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Etymology
Silo originally meant a place for grain (from Greek siros 'pit for grain'), and people later used the same word for a protected underground store for missiles. That's why a missile silo is an underground place that holds and can launch rockets.