Centrifugal vs Catapult - What's the difference?
centrifugal | catapult |
Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
(botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
(botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
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.
As an adjective centrifugal
is tending, or causing, to recede from the center.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.As a verb catapult is
to fire a missile from a catapult.centrifugal
English
Adjective
(wikipedia centrifugal) (-)Antonyms
* centripetalDerived terms
* centrifugal forceReferences
* *centrifugal] ''[http://oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.
catapult
English
(wikipedia catapult)Noun
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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.