Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
Torpedo
Torpedo noun - A large sandwich on a long split roll.
Device and torpedo are semantically related in exploding weapon topic. Sometimes you can use "Device" instead a noun "Torpedo".
Nearby Words: torpedoed, torpedoing
Both words in one sentence
- A ship launched device, it lobs a homing torpedo or a depth charge (which originally had an optional tactical nuclear warhead) in a ballistic trajectory, which then does its thing underwater.
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It may surprise a lot of modern audiences that the "human torpedo" referenced in this cartoon was an actual device used by the Japanese, as part of their many suicide missions to attack the enemy.
Source: Western Animation / Tokio Jokio -
However, instead of powder and shot, this coffin torpedo is implied to employ a nuclear device.
Source: Abnormal Ammo
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