Venus gets so hot during the day that it could melt a lead cannonball. The temperature rises to 484 degrees Celsius on the side facing the Sun.
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Cannonball
//ˈkænənˌbɔːl//
Synonyms for "cannonball" (81 found)
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12 entriesused for
13 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 29 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kanonkoeël noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Armenian
2 entries- թնդանոթի ռմբագունդ noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- հրանոթի գնդակ noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гюле́ noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 砲彈 /炮弹 noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Danish
1 entries- kanonkugle noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Dutch
2 entries- bommetje noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
- kanonskogel noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Finnish
3 entries- kuula noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- pommi noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
- tykinkuula noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
French
1 entries- boulet de canon noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
German
3 entries- Arschbombe noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
- Kanonenkugel noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- rasen verb (to move rapidly)
Hungarian
1 entries- ágyúgolyó noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Ido
1 entries- kuglego noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Italian
1 entries- palla di cannone noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Japanese
1 entries- 砲弾 noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Korean
2 entries- 대포알 noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- 포탄 noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Ladino
1 entries- top noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Macedonian
2 entries- бо́мба noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
- ѓу́ле noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Maranao
2 entries- pinang noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- pitonang noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Middle English
1 entries- gunneston noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Norman
2 entries- balle dé canon noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- boulet dé canon noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kanonkule noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kanonkule noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Polish
3 entries- bomba noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
- kula armatnia noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- spieszyć się verb (to move rapidly)
Portuguese
3 entries- bala de canhão noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- bala de canhão noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
- bomba noun (jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees)
Romanian
1 entries- ghiulea noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Russian
2 entries- пу́шечное ядро́ noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- ядро́ noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- đule noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Spanish
1 entries- bala de cañón noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Swedish
2 entries- kanonkula noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
- kula noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Turkish
1 entries- gülle noun (spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Tom is a human cannonball.
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The first human cannonball was a 14-year-old girl called "Zazel".
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Some kind of cannonball.
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