Catapult vs Canon - What's the difference?
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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.
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To fire a missile from a catapult.
To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.
To increase the status of something rapidly.
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To be fired from a catapult or as if from a catapult.
To have one's status increased rapidly.
A generally accepted principle; a rule.
* Shakespeare
(literary) A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
(fandom) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are generally considered authoritative regarding a given fictional universe.
(cookery) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
(printing) The largest size of type with a specific name, formerly used for printing the canons of the church.
(senseid)The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
(billiards) A carom.
As nouns the difference between catapult and canon
is that 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 while canon is .As a verb catapult
is to fire a missile from a catapult.catapult
English
(wikipedia catapult)Noun
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
- The candidate selection for running mate has catapulted her to the national scene.
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- She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.
See also
* ballista * crossbow * onager * siege engine * trebuchet, trebucketcanon
English
(wikipedia canon)Noun
(en noun)- The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.
- Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
- (turn into real quote) "the durable canon of American short fiction" — William Styron
- the entire Shakespeare canon
- We must proceed according to canon law.
- Pachelbel’s ''Canon'' has become very popular.
- A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon .
- a canon of beef or lamb
- (Knight)