broadside
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbrɔːdsaɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbrɔdˌsaɪd/
Noun
[edit]broadside (plural broadsides)
- (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
- 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Rtas 'Vadum (Robert Davi), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
- Broadside! What fools to face our guns!
- (by extension) A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.
- 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
- Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
- 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian[1]:
- Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.
- 2022 December 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: Strikes go on as RMT rejects RDG's "detrimental" offer”, in RAIL, number 972, page 9:
- He delivered a broadside to the RMT leadership, saying: "This response to a significantly enhanced offer exposes their true priority - using the British public and NR workers as pawns in a fight with the Government.
- 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
- A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
- The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one side of a warship
all the guns on one side of a warship
the simultaneous firing of all the guns on one side of a warship
written or spoken attack
large sheet, printed on one side and folded
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printed lyrics
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Adverb
[edit]broadside (not comparable)
- Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
- 1964 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 388:
- [...] the slight fluctuations [in speed] were due to a strong side-wind, which caught the train broadside along exposed stretches of the line.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- They were going some 60-80 mph [on a motorcycle] down a 30 mph street, hit a car broadside & Pat pushed against Bert, who was crushed into the side of the car.
Translations
[edit]with side towards something
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Verb
[edit]broadside (third-person singular simple present broadsides, present participle broadsiding, simple past and past participle broadsided)
- (transitive) To collide with something side-on.
References
[edit]- “broadside”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “broadside”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “broadside”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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