"thing thrown or discharged as a weapon," is 1650s, from missile (adj.), 1610s, "capable of being thrown," chiefly in phrase missile weapon, from French missile and directly from Latin missilis "that may be thrown or hurled" (also, in plural, as a noun, "weapons that can be thrown, darts, javelins"), from missus "a throwing, hurling," past participle of mittere "to send" (see mission). Sense of "self-propelled rocket or bomb" is first recorded 1738; the modern remote guidance projectile so called from 1945.
例文
1. The plane was shot down in error by a NATO missile .
NATOのミサイルが誤ってその飛行機を撃墜した。
2.The guidance systems didn 't work and the missile couldn 't hit its target.
ナビゲーションシステムが機能せず、ミサイルが目標に命中しなかった。
3.They claimed to have shot down one incoming missile .
彼らは来犯したミサイルを撃墜したと主張している。
4.The missile buried itself deep in the grassy hillside.
ミサイルは雑草の生い茂る山の斜面に深く埋もれている。
5.Another missile exploded harmlessly outside the town.