| 单词 | submarine mine |
| 释义 | > as lemmassubmarine mine 5. A type of bomb which detonates when activated by a person, vehicle, etc., passing over or near it; (spec. in early use) such a bomb placed underwater (in full submarine mine).Now frequently with modifying word specifying location (air, land, sea mine, etc.) or type (acoustic, contact, magnetic mine, etc.): see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > mine undermine1682 American turtle1775 torpedo1776 submarine1846 mine1862 pole torpedo1877 ground-torpedo1878 spar torpedo1878 countermine1880 acoustic mine1923 magnetic mine1939 limpet1942 pressure mine1943 oyster1945 1862 Sci. Amer. 24 May 329/2 Their ships..might be blown up by mines of powder under their keels. 1863 Harper's Mag. Dec. 15/2 A torpedo, or submarine mine, similar, in some respects, to one invented by Robert Fulton. 1878 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 488/2 To these fixed torpedoes it is now more usual to give the appropriate name of submarine mines. 1889 J. T. Bucknill Submarine Mines xx. 219 Just as the mines themselves form a grand obstruction to the passage of large vessels..so smaller obstructions can..impede..the passage of small craft whose aims may be to attack the mines. 1915 W. Owen Let. 8 Jan. (1967) 313 I am not exposed to chances of mine or torpedo. 1942 War Illustr. 16 Oct. 238/1 A man can walk over a mine easily enough, but a tank or lorry'll send them up in a proper earthquake. 1968 Visct. Montgomery Hist. Warfare xviii. 416 In 1855, in the Baltic, Russia made the first serious use of floating mines. 1980 B. Mason Solo 184 His jeep passed over a mine; wreckage was strewn over a wide area. submarine mine submarine mine n. an explosive charge laid beneath the surface of the sea, intended to explode on impact with an enemy vessel, etc. ΚΠ 1835 Army & Navy Chron. 24 Sept. 312/1 The next effort of gunpowder was shown in springing a submarine mine or torpedo in St. Mary's creek. 1915 Chambers's Jrnl. May 293/1 There are two kinds of submarine mines—namely, the ‘observation’ mine, which is fired by an observer on shore..and the ‘contact’ mine. 2001 F. A. Ninkovich United States & Imperialism i. 25 An American court of naval inquiry determined that the explosion had been caused by a submarine mine. < as lemmas |
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