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Launcher vs Cannon - What's the difference?

launcher | cannon |

As a noun launcher

is one who or that which launches a device that throws something or the person who initiates a launch.

As a proper noun cannon is

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launcher

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who or that which launches. A device that throws something or the person who initiates a launch.
    • The catapult made a good launcher for the small projectile.
    They shot down the helicopter with a rocket launcher .
  • (computing) An application that launches another or others, often holding icons or menus for frequently used programs.

    • Derived terms

    * grenade launcher * rocket launcher

    Anagrams

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    cannon

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.(JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
  • A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
  • (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
    • In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
  • (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player that can throw well.
    • He's got a cannon out in right.
  • (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
  • (printing) (a large size of type)

    • Usage notes

    The unchanged plural is preferred in Great Britain and Ireland, while North Americans and Australians tend to use the regular plural cannons . On aircraft, autocannons are sometimes called "cannons" for short.

    Related terms

    * cannonade * cannoneer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bombard with cannons
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball
    • The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
  • To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=September 2 , author= , title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.}}

    References

    English invariant nouns English nouns with irregular plurals