noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mobile
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The mobile launcher sat on pedestals over a 17.7 m wide flame trench.
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The combination of pad, mobile launcher and flame trench was cooled with a water deluge system.
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The crawler, mobile launchers and launch pads are all modified versions of the original components used for Apollo.
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On the mobile launcher the white room at the end of the swing arm connects with this hatch.
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In any case, you can not destroy all the mobile launchers , such as Polaris submarines.
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A Saturn V sits on its mobile launcher at complex 39A.
■ NOUN
grenade
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Selemenev is trained to handle a 60-pound automatic grenade launcher .
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They had the minigun, the grenade launchers , and the rockets, and they would usually fire all three.
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As we loaded up for one mission, a grunt got on board carrying an M-79 grenade launcher .
missile
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The main problem was that the missile launchers were often mobile, moving from site to site.
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When his car was past the missile launchers , past the guards, he demanded speed.
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Decoy and sabotage have moved far beyond Saddam's cardboard tanks and missile launchers .
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They vibrate to the passing of a missile launcher and stir their patient eyelashes.
rocket
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Over 7,000 assault rifles, 500 rocket launchers and several tonnes of explosives have been recovered.
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Quake involves killing opponents with a variety of implements including axes, nail guns and rocket launchers .
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We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green.
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When he came back with all three signatures on a piece of paper we would send the first load of rocket launchers .
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The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
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Away from the street self-taught craftsmen copy working anti-aircraft guns, hand grenades and rocket launchers .
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Police shudder at the prospect of facing a population which has anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers at its disposal.
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Technicals - trucks carrying cannon, anti-aircraft missiles and rocket launchers , cruise the city centre.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Centrifugal launchers did at least recognise a genuine need, even if they were not themselves the solution.
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His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side.
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Joe came off the bed like a Saturn launcher .
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Our Falconet target aircraft uses a centrifugal launcher as its principal method of getting airborne.
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Over 7,000 assault rifles, 500 rocket launchers and several tonnes of explosives have been recovered.
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Specifically, the treaty limited each side to 2, 400 launchers of all types.
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They had the minigun, the grenade launchers, and the rockets, and they would usually fire all three.
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When his car was past the missile launchers, past the guards, he demanded speed.