"howitzer" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhaʊ.ɪts.ə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈhaʊ.ɪts.əɹ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-howitzer.wav [US] Forms: howitzers [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|nl|houwitser}} Dutch houwitser, {{der|en|de|Haubitze}} German Haubitze, {{der|en|gmh|haufniz}} Middle High German haufniz, {{der|en|cs|houfnice}} Czech houfnice, {{af|cs|houf|-nice|nocat=1|t1=flock, crowd}} houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice, {{der|en|gmh|hufe|t=heap}} Middle High German hufe (“heap”), {{der|en|goh|hūfo}} Old High German hūfo Head templates: {{en-noun}} howitzer (plural howitzers)
  1. A cannon that combines certain characteristics of field guns and mortars, delivering projectiles with medium velocities, usually with relatively high trajectories; normally a cannon with a tube length of 20 to 30 calibers. Categories (topical): Artillery Translations (a cannon): houwitser (Afrikaans), obus [masculine] (Albanian), հաուբից (haubicʻ) (Armenian), haubitsa (Azerbaijani), га́ўбіца (háŭbica) [feminine] (Belarusian), га́убица (gáubica) [feminine] (Bulgarian), obús [masculine] (Catalan), 榴彈炮 (Chinese Mandarin), 榴弹炮 (liúdànpào) (Chinese Mandarin), houfnice [feminine] (Czech), haubits [common-gender] (Danish), houwitser [masculine] (Dutch), haubits (Estonian), haupitsi (Finnish), obusier [masculine] (French), obús [masculine] (Galician), ჰაუბიცა (haubica) (Georgian), Haubitze [feminine] (German), οβιδοβόλο (ovidovólo) [neuter] (Greek), tarack (Hungarian), habhatsar [masculine] (Irish), obice [feminine] (Italian), 榴弾砲 (ryūdanhō) (alt: りゅうだんほう) (Japanese), гаубица (gaubisa) (Kazakh), 곡사포 (goksapo) (alt: 曲射砲) (Korean), 유탄포 (yutanpo) (alt: 榴彈砲) (Korean), 류탄포 (ryutanpo) (alt: 榴彈砲) [North-Korea] (Korean), гаубица (gaubitsa) (Kyrgyz), haubice [feminine] (Latvian), haubica [feminine] (Lithuanian), хаубица (haubica) [feminine] (Macedonian), haubits [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), haubica [feminine] (Polish), obus [masculine] (Portuguese), morteiro [masculine] (Portuguese), obuzier [neuter] (Romanian), га́убица (gáubica) [feminine] (Russian), ха̀убица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), hàubica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), húfnica [feminine] (Slovak), havbica [feminine] (Slovene), obús [masculine] (Spanish), haubits [common-gender] (Swedish), гаубитса (gaubitsa) (Tajik), obüs (Turkish), га́убиця (háubycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), gaubitsa (Uzbek), lựu pháo (Vietnamese), hobüt (Volapük) Translations (a slightly different cannon): haubica [feminine] (Polish), га́убица (gáubica) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-howitzer-en-noun-~x7yjQOv Disambiguation of Artillery: 47 38 15 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 35 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 47 40 14 Disambiguation of 'a cannon': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'a slightly different cannon': 89 11
  2. (sports, rugby, ice hockey) A powerfully hit shot. Categories (topical): Ice hockey, Rugby, Sports, Artillery Translations (shot in sports): dělovka [feminine] (Czech), bomba [feminine] (Czech)
    Sense id: en-howitzer-en-noun-FWJ6jCdB Disambiguation of Artillery: 47 38 15 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 47 40 14 Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, rugby, skating, sports Disambiguation of 'shot in sports': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Casaba howitzer, gun-howitzer, mountain howitzer Coordinate_terms: gun, field gun, mortar

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhaʊ.ɪts.ə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈhaʊ.ɪts.əɹ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-howitzer.wav [US] Forms: howitzers [present, singular, third-person], howitzering [participle, present], howitzered [participle, past], howitzered [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Middle High German haufniz, from Czech houfnice, which was derived from houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice. The Czech noun houf comes from Middle High German hufe (“heap”), from Old High German hūfo. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|nl|houwitser}} Dutch houwitser, {{der|en|de|Haubitze}} German Haubitze, {{der|en|gmh|haufniz}} Middle High German haufniz, {{der|en|cs|houfnice}} Czech houfnice, {{af|cs|houf|-nice|nocat=1|t1=flock, crowd}} houf (“flock, crowd”) + -nice, {{der|en|gmh|hufe|t=heap}} Middle High German hufe (“heap”), {{der|en|goh|hūfo}} Old High German hūfo Head templates: {{en-verb}} howitzer (third-person singular simple present howitzers, present participle howitzering, simple past and past participle howitzered)
  1. To attack with a howitzer. Categories (topical): Artillery Related terms: indirect fire
    Sense id: en-howitzer-en-verb-vPsP6t46 Disambiguation of Artillery: 47 38 15 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 47 40 14

Inflected forms

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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a cannon",
      "word": "lựu pháo"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a cannon",
      "word": "hobüt"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a slightly different cannon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "haubica"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gáubica",
      "sense": "a slightly different cannon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "га́убица"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "shot in sports",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dělovka"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "shot in sports",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba"
    }
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}

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      "args": {
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        "2": "goh",
        "3": "hūfo"
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      "form": "howitzering",
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}

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