Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.
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Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happend. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! hidden out of sight somewhere.
enlightening. I really started looking at birds in a different way, for example, considering the issue of space from the perspective of a bird -- projectile, trajectory.
If there is an explosion and a manhole (cover) becomes a projectile, it could cause injury and possibly death.
As far as we know, this is the first time a projectile weapon aimed at targeting Jerusalem was found.
It's really bad for a number of reasons. Number one, if you have a child in the front seat period, an airbag deployed can kill the infant. And even if you are in a minor crash, what happens to a child not buckled down securely is that it becomes a projectile and could hit the steering wheel, the windshield, anything. Even if you just make a sudden stop, the child can fly from your lap.
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.
This was a major technological breakthrough -- a wireless projectile that contains a fully operational TASER circuit payload, packaged in a non-lethal 12-gauge shotgun round. This demonstration was the culmination of several years of intensive research and development funded through ONR. The XREP technology will now begin the transition from research to production.