close supporting fire | fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it |
deep supporting fire | fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications |
direct supporting fire | fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) |
supporting fire | fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat |
support supporting | the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening, he leaned against the wall for support |
airfoil aerofoil control surface surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
air-to-ground missile air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
horizontal surface level | a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line, park the car on the level |
paved surface | a level horizontal surface covered with paving material |
road surface | the paved surface of a paved roadway |
supporting structure | a structure that serves to support something |
supporting tower | a tower that serves to support something |
surface | the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary, there is a special cleaner for these surfaces, the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface |
surface gauge surface gage scribing block | gauge consisting of a scriber mounted on an adjustable stand, used to test the accuracy of plane surfaces |
surface lift | a ski tow that pulls skiers up a slope without lifting them off the ground |
surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
surface ship | a warship that operates on the surface of the water |
surface-to-air missile SAM | a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target |
surface-to-air missile system | the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft |
upper surface | the side that is uppermost |
vertical surface | a surface that is vertical |
work surface | a horizontal surface for supporting objects used in working or playing games |
area expanse surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
open surface | information that has become public, all the reports were out in the open, the facts had been brought to the surface |
surface | a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something, it was not what it appeared to be on the surface |
surface chemistry | the branch of chemistry that studies processes occurring at interfaces between phases (especially those between liquid and gas) |
surface mail | mail that is sent by land or sea |
surface fire | a forest fire that burns only the surface litter and undergrowth |
surface noise | noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record |
Naval Surface Warfare Center NSWC | the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare |
ensemble supporting players | a cast other than the principals |
green putting green putting surface | an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course, the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker |
surface | the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object, they skimmed over the surface of the water, a brush small enough to clean every dental surface, the sun has no distinct surface |
surface Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
surface tension | a phenomenon at the surface of a liquid caused by intermolecular forces |
interfacial tension interfacial surface tension | surface tension at the surface separating two non-miscible liquids |
adsorption surface assimilation | the accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid |
quadric quadric surface | a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree |
topsoil surface soil | the layer of soil on the surface |
wetting agent wetter surfactant surface-active agent | a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved |
change surface | undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface |
come on come out turn up surface show up | appear or become visible, make a showing, She turned up at the funeral, I hope the list key is going to surface again |
strip mine surface mine surface-mine | extract (ore) from a strip-mine |
coat surface | put a coat on, cover the surface of, furnish with a surface, coat the cake with chocolate |
hard surface | cover with asphalt or a similar surface, hard-surface roads |
surface come up rise up rise | come to the surface |
adsorbent adsorptive surface-assimilative | having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface |
surface-active | capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, used especially of detergents |
air-to-surface air-to-ground | operating from or designed to be fired from aircraft at targets on the ground, air-to-surface missiles |
surface-to-air | operating from or designed to be launched from the ground against an airborne target, surface-to-air missiles |