barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling
(noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; “they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops”; “the shelling went on for hours without pausing”
barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught
(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); “a barrage of questions”; “a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake”
bombard, barrage
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage; “The speaker was barraged by an angry audience”; “The governor was bombarded with requests to grant a pardon to the convicted killer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barrage (plural barrages)
An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.
Hyponym: dam
(military) A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.
A concentrated discharge of projectile weapons.
(by extension) An overwhelming outburst of words, especially of criticism.
(fencing) A "next hit wins" contest to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.
Type of firework containing a mixture of firework types in one single-ignition package.
barrage (third-person singular simple present barrages, present participle barraging, simple past and past participle barraged)
(transitive) To direct a barrage at.
Synonym: bombard
Source: Wiktionary
Bar"rage, n. Etym: [F., fr. barrer to bar, from barre bar.] (Engin.)
Definition: An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
