Salvo

  • 21Salvo — A salvo is the simultaneous discharge of artillery or firearms including the firing of guns either to hit a target or to perform a salute. Troops armed with muzzleloaders required time in which to refill their arms with gun powder and shot. Gun… …

    Wikipedia

  • 22salvo — {{hw}}{{salvo}}{{/hw}}A agg. Che è scampato a un pericolo, anche grave, senza riportarne alcun danno: uscire salvo da un impresa | Fuori pericolo: i dottori dicono che è salvo | Libero dall inferno, non dannato: preghiamo perché la sua anima sia… …

    Enciclopedia di italiano

  • 23salvo — {{#}}{{LM S34960}}{{〓}} {{[}}salvo{{]}} ‹sal·vo› {{《}}▍ adv.{{》}} Fuera de, excepto: • Salvo imprevistos, nos veremos la próxima semana.{{○}} {{#}}{{LM S34961}}{{〓}} {{SynS35840}} {{[}}salvo{{]}}, {{[}}salva{{]}} ‹sal·vo, va› {{《}}▍ adj.{{》}}… …

    Diccionario de uso del español actual con sinónimos y antónimos

  • 24salvo — [[t]sæ̱lvoʊ[/t]] salvoes 1) N COUNT A salvo is the firing of several guns or missiles at the same time in a battle or ceremony. They were to fire a salvo of blanks, after the national anthem. 2) N COUNT: with supp A salvo of angry words is a lot… …

    English dictionary

  • 25salvo — n. to fire a salvo * * * [ sælvəʊ] to fire a salvo …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 26salvo — sal|vo [ˈsælvəu US vou] n plural salvos or salvoes [C usually singular] formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Italian; Origin: salva, from French salve, from Latin, a greeting, from salvere to be healthy , from salvus; SAFE1] 1.) …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 27salvo — [16] When English originally acquired the word salvo, it was in the forms salve or salva, which came respectively from French salve and its source, Italian salva. This originally meant ‘salute, greeting’ (it came from salvē ‘hail’, the imperative …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 28salvo — i. In air to ground armament delivery, firing or releasing all weapons of a type simultaneously, or nearly so. In certain cases, it also means firing or releasing more than one weapon of a type (e.g., a salvo of four rockets, or all rockets fired …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 29salvo — noun (countable usually singular) formal 1 (+ of) the firing of several guns during a battle or as part of a ceremony 2 opening salvo the first in a series of questions, statements etc that you use to try to win an argument: In his opening salvo… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 30salvo — UK [ˈsælvəʊ] / US [ˈsælvoʊ] noun [countable] Word forms salvo : singular salvo plural salvos or salvoes 1) an act of firing a number of guns or other weapons at the same time 2) a sudden attack on an opponent …

    English dictionary