broadside

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Editorial note

You give 'em a broadside from your 74, board their vessel, and hang the survivors.

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Quick take

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of broadside gathered in one view.

noun

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

noun

a speech of violent denunciation

noun

all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for broadside.

noun

an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

See also: circular, handbill, bill, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway

noun

a speech of violent denunciation

noun

all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship

noun

the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern; "the ship was broadside to the dock"

noun

the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship

verb

collide with the broad side of; "her car broad-sided mine"

adjective

toward a full side; "a broadside attack"

adverb

with a side facing an object; "the train hit the truck broadside"; "the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it"

Example sentences

You give 'em a broadside from your 74, board their vessel, and hang the survivors.

They have to be fairly low and fly in slow circles with the broadside facing the target.

First, he's shooting a broadside against all Open Source communities, but it all seems to be about 'I don't agree with Linus'.

I decided to test a Google self driving car as it crossed the intersection by accelerating into its broadside - no reaction at all.

But what is the cause and effect relationship of “devaluation of the Chinese currency will hit Europe like an economic broadside “ .

Hunter S. Thompson is the only one who had it right.> Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow!

But he's clearly not saying that and has chosen instead to launch a broadside against the university institution and seems to have no evidence backing up his assertions.

Because the broadside shove impacts the atmosphere with a relatively smooth voltage gradient if the solar wind is fairly even, then the atmosphere may not break down and conduct, and the resulting e field differential will impart kinetic energy into the molecules of the upper atmosphere.

A 'bromide' is the verbal equivalent of patent medicine, a meaningless nostrum or 'thought-terminating clich' in the modern vernacular; I think you meant 'broadside', which is literally a ship of war firing her entire main battery at once, or metaphorically a full-throated and fiery verbal attack.