See Also: ultra-(medicine)
non plus ultra(dictionary)
non ultra(dictionary)
ultra(1)(dictionary)
ultra(2)(dictionary)
ultra-(dictionary)
Ultra(encyclopedia)
ultra-(dictionary)
ne plus ultra(dictionary)
ultra vires(dictionary)

violence (oh) and Ultra (sh)


violence (oh)



behaviour that is intended to hurt Other people physically
::There is too much sex and violence on TV these days.
violence against
::violence against women
::We condemn any act of violence .
::threats of physical violence
::refuges for women escaping from domestic violence
::Neither side wants to resort to violence .
::When marchers gathered on a third day of protest, violence erupted and buildings were burned.
extreme force
::the tremendous violence of a tornado
do violence to sth
formal to spoil something
literary an angry way of speaking or reacting
::She spoke with a violence that surprised them both.
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
act of violence
physical violence
domestic violence (=violence between a man and woman in their Home)
racial/ethnic violence (=violence between different groups of people)
use/resort to violence (=behave violently)
violence erupts/explodes (=there is suddenly a lot of violence)

Ultra (sh)




Allied intelligence system that, in tapping the very highest-level Communications among the armed forces of Germany and Japan, contributed to the Allied victory in World War II. In the early 1930s Polish cryptographers first broke the code of Germany's cipher machine Enigma.

In 1939 they turned their information over to the Allies, and Britain established the Ultra project at Bletchley Park to intercept and decipher Enigma messages. The Japanese also had a modified version of the Enigma, known as "Purple" by the Americans, who were able to duplicate it well before Pearl Harbor. The intercept of signals helped Allied forces win the Battle of Britain and the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway and led to the destruction of a large part of the German forces following the Allied landing in Normandy.