define harpoon
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Harpoon (missile) The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system, developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. In 2004, Boeing delivered the 7,000th Harpoon unit since the weapon's introduction in 1977. The missile system has also been further developed into a land-strike weapon, the Standoff Land Attack Missile. The regular Harpoon uses active radar homing, and a low-level, sea-skimming cruise trajectory to improve survivability and lethality. The missile's launch platforms include
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scuttle 1 a small hatchlike opening in a roof or ceiling. verb (used with object), scuttled, scuttling. 3. to sink (a vessel) deliberately by opening seacocks or making openings in the bottom. 4. to abandon, withdraw from, or cause to be abandoned or destroyed (as plans, hopes, rumors, etc.). Origin.
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- Harpy. 1  Greek Mythology One of several loathsome, voracious monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, wings, and talons of a bird. 2  harpy A predatory person. 3  harpy A shrewish woman.
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Is the part of the wheel that the Lugs screw onto called the Hub? It's called a lamp harp. The top (where you place the shade) is called a finial base, the little 'clips' at the bottom are called the harp base.
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- Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Pontoon. pon-tōōn′, n. a flat kind of boat used in forming a bridge for the passage of an army: a bridge of boats: a lighter or barge used for loading or unloading ships—also Pon′ton.—ns.
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Home Affordable Refinance Program From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) is a federal program of the United States, set up by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in March 2009, to help underwater and near-underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages.
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- harpies. 1  1 capitalized : a foul malign creature in Greek mythology that is part woman and part bird. 2  2a : a predatory person : leechb : a shrewish woman.
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Harpa (Zool.) A genus of marine univalve shells; the harp shells; - so called from the form of the shells, and their ornamental ribs.
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Harp FAQs Every harp comes with a tuning key that you use to adjust each string. When you pluck a string with your finger, the electronic tuner will tell you whether that string is flat (too low in pitch), sharp (too high), or just right. You then use your tuning key to adjust the string until the tuner says that it is in tune.
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Harp The pedal or concert harp is a technologically advanced instrument, particularly distinguished by its use of pedals, foot-controlled devices which can alter the pitch of given strings, making the instrument fully chromatic and thus able to play a wide body of classical repertoire.
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- The strings are tuned diatonically and may be raised in pitch either one or two semitones by the use of pedals (double-action harp). Basic key: B major; range: nearly seven octaves. 2. something resembling this, esp in shape. 3. (Instruments) an informal name (esp in pop music) for harmonica.
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- But as the stumps of harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured whales, with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence of any kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have been some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for the ulceration alluded to.
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capstan Nautical An apparatus used for hoisting weights, consisting of a vertical spool-shaped cylinder that is rotated manually or by machine and around which a cable is wound. A small cylindrical shaft used to drive magnetic tape at a constant speed in a tape recorder.
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- Define frigate: a light boat propelled originally by oars but later by sails a light boat propelled originally by oars but later by sails; a square-rigged war vessel intermediate between a corvette and a ship of the line…
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harp a large triangular plucked stringed instrument consisting of a soundboard connected to an upright pillar by means of a curved crossbar from which the strings extend downwards. The strings are tuned diatonically and may be raised in pitch either one or two semitones by the use of pedals (double-action harp).
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- Now, with the Harpoon 4.6, there is perhaps for the first time, a meaningful alternative. A boat that is fast and and yet refreshingly umcomplicated. A boat that's really enjoyable to sail. And yet, forgiving.
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- 1. swoon-a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain. deliquium, faint, syncope. loss of consciousness-the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond.i (old : = faint) → in Ohnmacht fallen, ohnmaechtig ohnmächtig; (werden: fig over pop star) → etc beinahe ohnmaechtig (ohnmächtig werden/over sb sth/wegen Jdm) ; einer sache to swoon/over → somebody something/vom jdm. etw schwaermen schwärmen
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What is a Harp Guitar?The Definitive Organology of Historical and Modern Harp Guitars and Related Instrumentsby Gregg MinerUpdated March, 2015 For the layperson looking for the short answer of What is a Harp Guitar?, here it is in a nutshell (from Definition 14 below): 1  A guitar, in any of its accepted forms, with any number of additional floating unstopped strings that can accommodate individual plucking. 1  The modern harp guitar must have at least one unfretted string lying off the main fretboard; these unfretted strings are played as an open string.
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festoon festoon - an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work. embellishment - a superfluous ornament. 3. festoon - flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration. festoonery. flower chain - flowers strung together in a chain. Verb: 1. festoon - decorate with strings of flowers; The public buildings were festooned for the holiday
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pontoon pontoon - (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge. barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter - a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) boat - a small vessel for travel on water.
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The Bassoon The bassoon is a double-reed woodwind instrument with a conical bore air column, the bass member of the oboe family.
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- Recent Examples of harpoon from the Web. Hunters generally work at night, catching the alligators with a harpoon, fishing rod, speargun or crossbow. — , Sun-Sentinel.com, Florida's gator hunt kicks off; competition expected to be fierce, 15 Aug. 2017.
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- In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy was a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds, in Homeric poems.
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dragoon dragoon - a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen. 1  cavalryman, trooper - a soldier mounted on horseback; a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount.
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- Top Definition. pontoon. sounds like a dirty word but its actually a marine engineering term for containers fastened together to support a floating bridge, boat or plane. She sunned her voluptuous body on the pontoon bridge across the pond. by mandingoe May 05, 2004.
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- Home Affordable Refinance Program. The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) is a federal program of the United States, set up by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in March 2009, to help underwater and near-underwater homeowners refinance their mortgages.