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Broadside vs Salvo - What's the difference?

broadside | salvo |

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)
  • (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)
  • 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.
  • * 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]
  • 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.
  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
  • Verb

  • To collide with something sideways on
  • References

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    Anagrams

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    salvo

    English

    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)
  • An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
  • They admit many salvos , cautions, and reservations. --Eikon Basilike.
    2006 MetaFilter community weblog Britannica's issued a salvo against Nature's famous "Wikipedia and the EB are comparably error-strewn" analysis.

    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)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport 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.}}
  • A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
  • See also

    * the Salvos