| 单词 | striking force |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstriking force striking force n. striking force striking force n. (a) the force with which a projectile strikes; (b) a military force held in readiness for sudden attack. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > [noun] > force of impact of a projectile striking force1881 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for attack striking force1881 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 182 The various calculations respecting the striking force of rifles. 1917 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 230 Force 3 is our striking force (of perhaps 6,000 not bad men) and may be able to rush Deraat, or at least should cut off the garrison there. 1944 T. H. Wisdom Triumph over Tunisia xvii. 143 The function of what [Air Marshal] Coningham now called the Air Striking Force. 1965 J. A. Michener Source (1966) 793 The well-trained Jews of the Palmach—an abbreviation for the Plugat Machatz, ‘striking force’, organized in 1941 to resist the threatened German invasion. < as lemmas |
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