catapult

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> she could find a job to catapult her into the middle class in a matter of months.

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a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

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noun

a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

noun

a device that launches aircraft from a warship

noun

an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for catapult.

noun

a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

noun

a device that launches aircraft from a warship

noun

an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles

verb

shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort"

verb

hurl as if with a sling

Example sentences

> she could find a job to catapult her into the middle class in a matter of months.

Or besieged castles that had rotting bodies thrown into them via catapult.

Once there's a solid GPS fix, a precise, high-powered catapult throws the delivery package way up in the air.

Lots of people don't have the ability to easily cease living off food stamps: she could find a job to catapult her into the middle class in a matter of months.

This should be tempered somewhat with: "if your goal is to catapult yourself into a management position at a large organization.

If you see hitpoints go out of sync, it helps narrow the search space for the bug a lot to know something like "it was catapult 123's AOE curve calculation for archer 456" that diverged.

He ended up "borrowing" some of the industrial noise-suppressing headphones from the catapult lab in the basement so he could block out the noise of everyone working.

And once you put yourself on the shoulders of giants, including your own, you can geometrically catapult yourself into much higher spheres of measure, including "smartness".

If people were willing to be spontaneously cooperative even if it meant a cost to themselves, this would catapult us into a system of stable cooperation in which everyone profits.