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Capitulate vs Catapult - What's the difference?

capitulate | catapult |

As verbs the difference between capitulate and catapult

is that capitulate is (obsolete) to draw up in chapters; to enumerate while catapult is to fire a missile from a catapult.

As a noun catapult is

a device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.

capitulate

English

Verb

(capitulat)
  • (obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
  • (obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
  • * Heylin
  • there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
  • To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
  • He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
  • * Macaulay
  • The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .

    Synonyms

    * wave the white flag

    catapult

    Noun

  • A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects, such as a mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.
  • (UK) slingshot
  • An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.
  • (figuratively) An instance of firing something, as if from a catapult.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=13 March , author=Chris Bevan , title=Stoke 2 - 1 West Ham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The visitors were given notice of what was to come when Huth headed wide from a Rory Delap long throw but failed to heed the warning, allowing the German defender to rise unmarked to meet another Delap catapult and plant his header into the net after 12 minutes. }}

    Verb

  • To fire a missile from a catapult.
  • To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
  • To increase the status of something rapidly.
  • The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
  • To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
  • To have one's status increased rapidly.
  • She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.

    See also

    * ballista * crossbow * onager * siege engine * trebuchet, trebucket