Crossword clues for panzer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
panzer \panzer\ n. A German tank of the kind used in World War II.
panzer \panzer\ adj. [German, Panzer armor.]
Equipped with armored vehicles; armored; as, a panzer division.
Of, pertaining to, or involving armored military vehicles; as, a panzer attack.
armoured \armoured\ adj.
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provided with protective covering; -- used of animals. Opposite of unarmored.
Note: [Narrower terms: bone-covered ; {scaly, scaley, scaled.
Syn: armored.
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same as armor-clad; -- used of persons or things military. Opposite of unarmored.
Note: One that is aromour-clad is bulletproof. Narrower terms: lightly armored, lightly armoured; mail-clad, mailed; panzer; {scaled
Syn: armored.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1940, from of German Panzerdivision "armored unit," from Panzer "tank," literally "armor," from Middle High German panzier, from Old French panciere "armor for the belly," from pance "belly, stomach," from Latin pantex (genitive panticis) "belly" (see paunch).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tank, especially a German one of World War II. 2 (context attributive sometimes capitalized English) Of or relating to the armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II.
WordNet
adj. equipped with armored vehicles; "a panzer division"
n. an armored vehicle or tank
Wikipedia
Panzer is a German word that means armour. It is also used by the Germans as an abbreviation meaning "armored fighting vehicle" or tank (the military vehicle). The full German word for "armored combat vehicle" is Panzerkampfwagen. The word Panzer is occasionally used in English and some other languages as a loanword in the contexts of German military.
Panzer is a Chilean heavy metal band created in 1987.
The surname Panzer may refer to:
- Jeff Panzer, American music producer, music video producer and record label executive
- Frank E. Panzer, American farmer, schoolteacher, and politician
- Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer, German biologist
- Marty Panzer, American songwriter
- Mary Panzer, American banker and politician, daughter of Frank Panzer
- Paul Panzer (1872 – 16 1958), German-American silent film actor
Panzer is a loanword from German meaning " tank".
Panzer may also refer to:
- Panzer (surname)
- Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer, a prominent 18th-century taxonomist (in botany and entomology)
- Panzer (band), a Chilean heavy metal band
- Panzer (Brazilian band), a Brazilian thrash metal band
- Panzer, a board game by Yaquinto Publications
Panzer Starting its operations in 1991 with loads of gigs and released a few demos, the band formed by members who had already been on the scene of the late '80s. The band released its first record on CD in 1996 with the compilation "Electrical Tribes Vol II", which featured all exponents bands of São Paulo's scenario. Due to this release PANZER started playing more intensely in the capital's underground circuit, doing all the bars and festivals possible.
In 1998, they launched the album "Inside", which received excellent reviews from the specialized media. With "Inside" in hands and with a crowded release gig at the now defunct and traditional Black Jack bar, PANZER takes over a battery of shows, followed by articles in specialized magazines in Brazil and abroad, as well as interviews on FM radios of São Paulo.
Between late 1999 and 2000 the band worked in the composition and production of the second album "The Strongest", which was released in 2001 and was the turning point in the band's career, taking the name PANZER to be featured in all the national media, receiving of Roadie Crew magazine the title of "Thrash Machine", the album also yielded a mini tour in Brazilian Northeast, and dozens of shows in thecapital and countryside of São Paulo. In addition to the national prominence, the material was also well received around the world, having been distributed in Latin America through Century Media and Japan by Arco-Íris Records, highly acclaimed by the media and public.
Already in late 2002 released the music video for the song "Fake Game of Heroes", with production of Claudio Tiberius. But unfortunately, some days after performing a concert in Santo André where the headliner was PANZER, the band breaks up by internal problems.
After a hiatus of 10 years, PANZER returns in 2012 with websingle "Rising", which also received a music video produced by Metal Works and also an EP for download, "Brazilian Threat".
With these releases, the band returns to the activities with their come back being acclaimed by the specialized media and old fans, earning praises such as "the band returning with full power to the scenario" (Metal Maniacs), "The heavier thrash division of the country" (Metal Samsara 10/10), "Honor all the support associated with its name" (Hellyeah! 10/10), "One of the most powerful releases this year" (Whiplash!), "triumphant return of one of the best thrash metal bands in the country" (Road to Metal).
Usage examples of "panzer".
Cowboy watches the insides of his skull blaze with incandescent light, the liquid-crystal data matrices of the panzer molding themselves to the configuration of his mind.
He can see around the panzer a full 360 degrees, and there are other boards in his strange mental space for engine displays and the panzer systems.
Robot harvesters sweep through the fields, standing like stately alien sentinels in pools of brilliant light, moving alone, unable to detect the panzer as it sweeps across the land.
In the deep violet shadow of some crumbling grain silos near Gridley the panzer sweeps out of the darkness and scares the bejesus out of the sleeping kid in the cab of the fuel truck.
He slows down the lunging panzer and dives over the banks of the South Grand.
The panzer is into Johnson County before Cowboy detects a radar boring toward him from the east, low enough to be attached to an aircraft.
As the indicators max out, Cowboy looses a radar decoy missile and kicks the panzer into a shuddering left turn, its starboard side scraping soil as the panzer mashes its cushion down.
The panzer emerges into a clearing, where a metal maintenance shack rusts on its slab of concrete, and in that brief moment Cowboy fires a chaff rocket straight up and dives among the alloy trees once more.
A snarl from his throat echoes the amplified roar of the combustion chambers, and the panzer gouges earth as it spins right, toward the oncoming southern radar source.
Cowboy turns his own radar off to discourage homing missiles and navigates on his visual sensors alone, his mind making lightning decisions, neurotransmitters clattering against his headswitches like hail, the interface encompassing the whole flashing universe, the panzer and its systems, the corn thundering under the armored skirts, the blithering chaff, the two hostile privateers burning out of the night.
The panzer is trying to turn on a reverse camber, skidding on a bed of corn silk as gravity and momentum try to turn it over.
The panzer hurls itself above the rise again and skates along the edge of the red glare cast by the scattered chopper, heading for the spire of a silo in the distance.
The smartest thing for the privateer to do is to keep the panzer in sight and guide others in without risking itself.
Carefully, with gentle precision, he shoulders aside the heavy double doors and guides the panzer into the concrete-walled barn.
The engines cycle from murmur to thunder to shriek, and Cowboy can see the techs stand for a moment of frozen horror as the panzer lunges from the trees, mashing down a fence like an armored cyclone, a piece of roaring mechanical vengeance straight from the Inferno, and then the men in coveralls scatter, crying warning.