radar fire
- noun
- /ˈreɪˌdɑr faɪər/
- Specialized
:
fuego de radar
- Modern defense systems rely heavily on radar fire to intercept enemy missiles.
Examples
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The ship responded to the incoming aircraft with heavy radar fire.
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To avoid radar fire, the pilot flew at a very low altitude.
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The military used radar fire to track enemy movements.
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We heard the radar fire from the base during the exercise.
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The military used radar fire during the operation to target the advancing enemy.
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During the training exercise, the soldiers practiced engaging targets with radar fire.
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The defense system activated its radar fire to neutralize the threat from the incoming missiles.
Synonyms
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2.5
The sound or act of shooting guns
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'gunfire directed at a target being tracked by radar' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'radar' (detection/tracking using radio waves) with 'fire' (the firing of guns or artillery). This modifier + noun composition is literal and follows standard technical naming patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun radar fire comes from a simple image: a rotating radar acts like an eye that finds a target and the guns fire where it points. So radar fire means 'shooting' at a target that is being 'tracked' by radar.