| attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
| attack | an offensive move in a sport or game, they won the game with a -hit attack in the th inning |
| attack attempt | the act of attacking, attacks on women increased last year, they made an attempt on his life |
| approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
biological warfare
BW
biological attack
biologic attack
bioattack | the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food |
attack
onslaught
onset onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons), the attack began at dawn |
air raid
air attack | an attack by armed planes on a surface target |
| ground attack | an attack by ground troops |
banzai attack
banzai charge | a mass attack of troops without concern for casualties, originated by Japanese who accompanied it with yells of `banzai' |
| diversion diversionary attack | an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack |
preventive strike
preventive attack | a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces |
| attack | strong criticism, he published an unexpected attack on my work |
surprise attack
coup de main | an attack without warning |
| terrorist attack | a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims |
| attack dog | a watchdog trained to attack on command |
| insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
| social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
dipterous insect
two-winged insects
dipteran
dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
hymenopterous insect
hymenopteran
hymenopteron
hymenopter | insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing |
orthopterous insect
orthopteron
orthopteran | any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts |
phasmid
phasmid insect | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants, walking sticks and leaf insects |
walking stick
walkingstick
stick insect | any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies |
walking leaf
leaf insect | tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body, common in southern Asia and the East Indies |
| dictyopterous insect | cockroaches and mantids |
hemipterous insect
bug hemipteran
hemipteron | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base, usually show incomplete metamorphosis |
| heteropterous insect | true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips |
homopterous insect
homopteran | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
| coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| wax insect | any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance |
cochineal insect
cochineal
Dactylopius coccus | Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti, the source of a red dye |
spittle insect
spittlebug | small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete |
| psocopterous insect | small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs |
neuropteron
neuropteran
neuropterous insect | insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins |
trichopterous insect
trichopteran
trichopteron | caddis fly |
thysanuran insect
thysanuron | primitive wingless insects: bristletail |
thysanopter
thysanopteron
thysanopterous insect | an insect of the order Thysanoptera |
lepidopterous insect
lepidopteron
lepidopteran | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales |
aircraft carrier
carrier flattop
attack aircraft carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings |
| attack submarine | a military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping |
fighter
fighter aircraft
attack aircraft | a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air |
Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDAM | a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs |
fire
attack
flak
flack
blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
| warning of attack | a warning to national policy makers that an enemy intends to launch an attack in the near future |
scare
panic attack | a sudden attack of fear |
worm
louse
insect
dirt ball | a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
| attack | the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent), the film was sensitive to attack by acids, open to attack by the elements |
| angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
| attack | a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition, an attack of diarrhea |
| anxiety attack | a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic |