catapult
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkæ.tə.pʌlt/
catapult (plural catapults) (catapultæ is archaic)
- A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
- (UK) slingshot
- An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
- (figuratively) An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
- French: catapulte
- German: Katapult
- Italian: catapulta
- Portuguese: catapulta
- Russian: катапу́льта
- Spanish: catapulta
catapult (catapults, present participle catapulting; past and past participle catapulted)
- (transitive) To fire a missile from a catapult.
- (transitive) To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
- (transitive) To increase the status of something rapidly.
- The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene.
- (intransitive) To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
- (intransitive) To have one's status increased rapidly.
- She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.
- French: catapulter
- German: katapultieren
- French: catapulter
- German: katapultieren
- French: catapulter
- French: catapulter
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