cannonball

/kan-uhn-bawl/US // ˈkæn ənˌbɔl //UK // (ˈkænənˌbɔːl) //

炮弹,炮仗,大炮弹,炮击

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Also cannon ball .
- : a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
- : Tennis. a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
- : anything that moves with great speed, as an express train.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : made from a curled-up position with the arms pressing the knees against one's chest: a cannonball dive.
- : moving at great speed: a train known as a cannonball express.

as inmessage

Synonyms

We’ll do some improvements on our existing ones, and if we start to get some traffic, we can go back and get more money and then turn that bullet into firing a cannonball.
The Gen X-y video boasted a giant cannonball rolling down suburban streets, as well as front woman Kim Deal singing underwater.
My description of Cannonball has become admittedly abstract, and the novel is sometimes inexplicably opaque.
A cannonball—metal or human—displaces water, but it regains its own level.
It is at this point that Cannonball turns toward Pynchonian conspiracy.
But the Republican Party has shot like a cannonball to the right.
This village we have just mentioned was on the east side of the river nearly opposite to the mouth of the Cannonball River.
They were not at all certain where they were, but they knew they were a long way from the mouth of the Little Cannonball.
The skunk retaliated in his own fashion; and shortly after, they moved forever out of the cabin on the Little Cannonball.
It is a prairie stream paralleling Cannonball and Cheyenne rivers, and largely destitute of timber.
Being laid about six feet thick, a cannonball could not have penetrated.

/kan-uhn-bawl/US // ˈkæn ənˌbɔl //UK // (ˈkænənˌbɔːl) //

炮弹,炮仗,大炮弹,炮击

n.名词 noun

1
Also cannon ball .
- : a missile, usually round and made of iron or steel, designed to be fired from a cannon.
- : Tennis. a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
- : anything that moves with great speed, as an express train.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : made from a curled-up position with the arms pressing the knees against one's chest: a cannonball dive.
- : moving at great speed: a train known as a cannonball express.

as inmessage

Synonyms

We’ll do some improvements on our existing ones, and if we start to get some traffic, we can go back and get more money and then turn that bullet into firing a cannonball.
The Gen X-y video boasted a giant cannonball rolling down suburban streets, as well as front woman Kim Deal singing underwater.
My description of Cannonball has become admittedly abstract, and the novel is sometimes inexplicably opaque.
A cannonball—metal or human—displaces water, but it regains its own level.
It is at this point that Cannonball turns toward Pynchonian conspiracy.
But the Republican Party has shot like a cannonball to the right.
This village we have just mentioned was on the east side of the river nearly opposite to the mouth of the Cannonball River.
They were not at all certain where they were, but they knew they were a long way from the mouth of the Little Cannonball.
The skunk retaliated in his own fashion; and shortly after, they moved forever out of the cabin on the Little Cannonball.
It is a prairie stream paralleling Cannonball and Cheyenne rivers, and largely destitute of timber.
Being laid about six feet thick, a cannonball could not have penetrated.