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onslaught
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onslaught \On"slaught`\, n. [OE. on on + slaught, slaht, slaughter. See Slaughter.]
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An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.
By storm and onslaught to proceed.
--Hudibras. A bloody fray or battle. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, anslaight, somehow from or on analogy of Dutch aanslag "attack," from Middle Dutch aenslach, from aen "on" (see on) + slach "blow," related to slaen "slay." Spelling influenced by obsolete (since c.1400) English slaught (n.) "slaughter," from Old English sleaht (see slaughter (n.)). No record of its use in 18c.; apparently revived by Scott.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fierce attack. 2 A large quantity of people or things resembling an attack.
WordNet
n. a sudden and severe onset of trouble
(military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onset, onrush]
the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) [syn: barrage, outpouring]
Wikipedia
Onslaught is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Onslaught was written as a sentient psionic entity created from the consciousness of two mutants: Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto. During a battle between the X-Men and Magneto's Acolytes, Professor Xavier used his telepathic powers to shut down Magneto's mind, rendering him catatonic. It was explained through the Onslaught crossover series that the darkest aspect of Magneto's mind escaped into Xavier's subconscious, where it "merged" with Xavier's own darker nature to eventually grow into a separate persona of its own.
Onslaught is a Magic: The Gathering expert-level block. It consists of the expansion sets Onslaught (October 2002), Legions (January 2003) and Scourge (May 2003). The block's main theme is creature types (for example, Clerics and Goblins), and much of the game play concerns interactions between these "tribes". The story continues the saga of the Mirari from the previous block of expansion sets. Onslaught was the last block printed before the "modern" card face style was introduced.
Onslaught (2002) is a military fantasy novel by David Sherman. It is set in a world where demons may be tamed and used to serve somewhat in the sense of technology. It is the first novel in Sherman's DemonTech series. Haft and Spinner, 2 Frangerien Marines, become stranded in the port city of New Balley. After escaping, they attempt to find their way home to Frangeria.
Onslaught are an English thrash metal band from Bristol, England. Initially active from 1983 to 1991, they reformed in 2005. The band initially drew influence from second wave hardcore punk bands such as Discharge and The Exploited, and then adopted a straightforward thrash metal sound. To date, Onslaught have released six studio albums, one compilation, four singles and two live recordings: a live album and a live DVD.
Onslaught is a video game that was released by Hewson in 1989 for the Amiga and subsequently ported to the Atari ST, PC and Sega Mega Drive.
The game is a fantasy platform beat'em up featuring an eerie soundtrack and graphic violence, with strong imagery of blood, gore and warfare.
Onslaught was re-released for the iPhone OS in December 2008 and for the Xbox 360 in January 2009 as part of the Xbox Live Community Games service.
Onslaught may refer to:
- Onslaught (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Onslaught (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
- Onslaught (gametype), a gametype in the first-person shooter computer game Unreal Tournament 2004
- Onslaught (video game), a 1989 Amiga beat'em up computer game
- Onslaught (2009 video game), a 2009 Wii first-person shooter video game
- Onslaught (band), a British thrash metal band
- Onslaught (novel), a 2002 science fiction novel by David Sherman and Dan Cragg
- Onslaught (Transformers) is the leader of the Combaticons, a Decepticon team in the Transformers series
- A co-op mode in the video game Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Onslaught (Dove), a short film/advertisement made by Dove for their Campaign for Real Beauty
The Onslaught (formerly known as the Jihad) are a fictional team of state sponsored super powered Quraci terrorists published by DC Comics. They first appeared in Suicide Squad volume 1 #1, and were created by John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell.
Onslaught is the name of a fictional character in the various Transformers universes. He is usually portrayed as the leader of the Combaticons who turn into missile launching vehicles and combine with his comrades into Bruticus.
Onslaught is an online advertising campaign created by Unilever in 2007 to promote the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. It is the third such piece to be released, following Daughters and Evolution. As with the previous spots, the 80-second spot was managed by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather and was directed by Tim Piper. The campaign won a number of prestigious awards from within the advertising industry, including at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
The film begins opening titles along with the song " La Breeze", by the now-defunct English band Simian. It then dissolves to the face of a young girl. The song keeps building, repeating the lyrics "Here it comes... Here it comes..." The music takes off and the little girl is quickly followed by a bombardment of fictionalized images, video clips, product shots and advertisements, all illustrating of the impossible standards of beauty in modern media. The film ends with a shot of the same girl walking to school with her classmates, and the text "talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does" appears on the screen. The viewer is then invited to the Campaign for Real Beauty's website.
Onslaught'' (known in Japan as マッドセクタ MadSecta'') is a first-person shooter for WiiWare by Hudson Soft. It was released in Europe on February 13, 2009, in North America on February 23, 2009, and in Japan on March 3, 2009.
Usage examples of "onslaught".
French for that, and Amy could already feel her native tongue beginning to slip away under the onslaught of constant English conversation.
We fired a volley point blank into them and, as it was hopeless for fifty men to withstand such an onslaught, bolted during the temporary confusion that ensued, taking refuge, as it had been arranged that we should do, at a point of vantage farther down the line of fortifications, whence we maintained our galling fire.
Pierre Buttel, whose influence was great, put a stop to this onslaught.
The Chulo retreated from the onslaught of the white man a long time ago.
Though she had alsof expected messengers to precede her, she was not pre-j pared for the onslaught of guards, cubiculars, logothetes, and the rest of the army of palace functionaries who waited outside, and swept her into their complex wake.
Shani Deva, grant me a chance to fight the craven perpetrators of this onslaught.
A malignant intelligence directed their onslaught, so that even the disjoined fragments conspired against the embattled humans.
Ere I begin, summon them all to this part of the walls: a look-out is enow to shield you of the other parts from any sudden onslaught, which besides I swear to you is clean without my purpose.
The wily Gorr, seeing his warriors melt before the terrible onslaught, retreated to his massive walled fortress, Golgor.
It need hardly be said that while French wine and silk prospered under this arrangement, other textiles and ironwares suffered an onslaught of cheap competition from the much more advanced British manufactures.
Sometimes in the noonday, when Robyn was lying pale and silent, resting between the periodic onslaughts of the fever, Mungo could sleep for a few hours on the pallet set at the far end of the veranda, until Juba or one of the twins called him.
The weather on the Escarpment was often violent, with katabatic winds rushing downslope and colliding with the Syrtis trade winds to create tall fast red tornadoes, or onslaughts of gritty hail.
I have to say, whether it was on account of their poor condition, or because the tsetse in those parts is more poisonous than usual, I do not know, but ours succumbed to its onslaught.
The guards had not reached me when he fell upon them from the rear, and as they turned, thinking from the fierceness of his onslaught that a dozen were attacking them, I rushed them from my side.
The scratcher, blinking and gaping, did not seem to know what to do in the face of such an insane onslaught.