Broadside vs Salvo - What's the difference?
broadside | salvo |
(nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
(by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
* 1993 , (Peter Kolchin), American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
* 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
To collide with something sideways on
An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
By extension, any volley, as in an argument or debate.
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A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
As nouns the difference between broadside and salvo
is that broadside is one side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing while salvo is an exception; a reservation; an excuse.As an adverb broadside
is sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.As a verb broadside
is to collide with something sideways on.broadside
English
Noun
(en noun)- Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
- Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of , either from salvo jure'' literally 'the right being reserved', or from ''salvo errore et omissone 'reserving error and omission'.Noun
(en noun)- They admit many salvos , cautions, and reservations. --Eikon Basilike.
- 2006
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Etymology 2
A 1719 alteration of salva'' (1591) "simultaneous discharge of guns," from (etyl) , imperative of salvere: "be in good health!," the usual Roman greeting, regarded as imperative of ''salvere "to be in good health,"Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.}}