cannon
Từ điển Collocation
cannon noun
ADJ. water Riot police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
VERB + CANNON load | aim | fire, shoot
CANNON + VERB boom, roar, thunder Cannons thundered to their right. | fire (sth) As the king stepped ashore the cannons fired a salute.
CANNON + NOUN ball, shell | fire, shot | crew | fodder (figurative) The foot soldiers were just used as cannon fodder (= considered not as people but as material to be used up in war).
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
- heavy gun fired from a tank
- (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals; shank
- a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other; carom
v.
- make a cannon
- fire a cannon
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
cannons
syn.: carom shank