What does BOMB mean?
Definitions for BOMB
bɒmbomb
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Princeton's WordNet
bombnoun
an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
bomb calorimeter, bombnoun
strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
turkey, bomb, dudverb
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
"the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
bombard, bombverb
throw bombs at or attack with bombs
"The Americans bombed Dresden"
fail, flunk, bomb, flush itverb
fail to get a passing grade
"She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
Wiktionary
bombnoun
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
bombnoun
A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
bombnoun
A car in poor condition.
bombnoun
A large amount of money, a fortune.
make a bomb, cost a bomb
bombnoun
A success; the bomb.
Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
bombnoun
A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
bombnoun
An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
bombnoun
The atomic bomb.
During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
bombnoun
A long forward pass.
bombverb
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
bombverb
To fail dismally.
bombverb
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
bombnoun
A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
bombnoun
A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.
Bombnoun
The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack. Often used with the.
Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
Etymology: From bombe, from bomba, from bombus, from βόμβος, imitative of the sound itself.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BOMBnoun
Etymology: bombus, Lat.
There was an upper chamber, which being thought weak, was supported by a pillar of iron, of the bigness of one’s arm in the midst; which, if you had struck, would make a little flat noise in the room, but a great bomb in the chamber beneath. Francis Bacon, Natural Hist. №. 151.
The loud cannon missive iron pours,
And in the slaught’ring bomb Gradivus roars. Nicholas Rowe.To Bombverb
To fall upon with bombs; to bombard.
Etymology: from the noun.
Our king thus trembles at Namur,
Whilst Villeroy, who ne’er afraid is,
To Bruxelles marches on secure,
To bomb the monks, and scare the ladies. Matthew Prior.
ChatGPT
bomb
A bomb is an explosive device designed to cause destruction, injury, or death through a sudden and violent release of energy.
Webster Dictionary
Bombnoun
a great noise; a hollow sound
Bombnoun
a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell
Bombnoun
a bomb ketch
Bombverb
to bombard
Bombverb
to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound
Wikidata
Bomb
A bomb is any of a range of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechanical stress, the impact and penetration of pressure-driven projectiles, pressure damage, and explosion-generated effects. A nuclear weapon employs chemical-based explosives to initiate a much larger nuclear-based explosion. Bombs have been in use since the 11th century in Song Dynasty China. The term bomb is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as "bomb". The military use of the term "bomb", or more specifically aerial bomb action, typically refers to airdropped, unpowered explosive weapons most commonly used by air forces and naval aviation. Other military explosive weapons not classified as "bombs" include grenades, shells, depth charges, warheads when in missiles, or land mines. In unconventional warfare, "bomb" can refer to a range of offensive weaponry. For instance, in recent conflicts, "bombs" known as improvised explosive devices have been employed by insurgent fighters to great effectiveness.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bomb
bom, or bum, n. a hollow projectile, usually of cast-iron, fired from a mortar, filled with gunpowder and fitted with a time-fuse: any similar missile or case of explosives, as a dynamite bomb.—n. Bom′bard, an engine or great gun for throwing bombs: (Shak.) a barrel or large vessel for holding liquor.—v.t. Bombard′, to attack with bombs.—ns. Bombardier′, the lowest non-commissioned officer in the British artillery, formerly a man employed about the mortars and howitzers; Bombard′ment; Bombar′don, a deep-toned brass instrument, with a tube likened to a bombard.—adj. Bomb′-proof, proof or secure against the force of bombs.—ns. Bomb′-shell (same as Bomb); Bomb′-vess′el, Bomb′-ketch, a vessel for carrying the mortars used in bombarding from the sea.—Bombardier beetle, a name given to several species of beetles, which discharge an acrid volatile fluid with explosive force from the abdomen. [Fr. bombe—L. bombus—Gr. bombos, a humming sound—an imitative word.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
bomb
1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a noun; esp. used of software or OS failures. “Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb.” 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix panic or Amiga guru meditation, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS machines tend to get locked up in this situation.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
bomb
[formerly bomber, from bomba]. The mortar of bomb-vessels.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
bomb
A hollow ball or shell of cast iron filled with explosive materials, and furnished with a fuze, which being ignited when the missile is discharged from a mortar or howitzer, burns during its flight, and causes it to explode with destructive violence when it falls. They are now commonly called shells.
Rap Dictionary
bombnoun
Marijuana laced with heroin.
bombnoun
Very good. "Gimme that bomb beat from Dre" -- Tupac (California love).
Editors Contribution
bombnoun
The best offer brought over in book keepings bachelor of medicine computing an explosive megabyte. 1.) An explosive device fitted into a specified object. Nuclear weapons considered collectively as agents of mass destruction. 2.) a lump of lava thrown out by a volcano. 3.) a movie, play, or other event that fails badly.
My book is the bomb already before I even finish.
Etymology: Chemistry
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 26, 2024
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'BOMB' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3665
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Rank popularity for the word 'BOMB' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3164
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'BOMB' in Nouns Frequency: #1138
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of BOMB in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of BOMB in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of BOMB in a Sentence
Spokesman Colonel Steve Warren:
If the (American) JTAK says, 'Put a bomb there,’ no questions are asked, that is not something we are going to delegate to anyone other than Americans. Period.
The purpose of that kind of bomb is to shred flesh, shatter bone, set people on fire and cause people to suffer painful deaths.
I came back and at the airport I was very rigorously examined, if Victor Bockarie Foh fly with a disease like this, it is like flying with a bomb.
And all you see( is) smoke – black smoke … going off, and then people bum-rushing to the back, this pregnant woman was in front of me. I was trying to help her. I did n’t know there were shots at first. I just thought it was a black smoke bomb.
It sounds political and it sounds like you were excited to drop this bomb, that was in response to me getting -- finally, I thought -- an attorney from Times Up to finally bring something forward and bring my story forward in a safe way. So thats why I wrote it.
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- bomAfrikaans
- قنبلة, قنبلArabic
- bombaAzerbaijani
- бо́мбаBelarusian
- бо́мба, бомбардирамBulgarian
- বোমাBengali
- tartana, bomba, monument, bombardejarCatalan, Valencian
- бомбаChechen
- bomba, vybouchnout, bombardovatCzech
- bomWelsh
- bombeDanish
- Bombe, bombardierenGerman
- βόμβα, σεξοβόμβα, βομβαρδίζωGreek
- bombo, bombiEsperanto
- bomba, bombear, hacer la bomba, bombardearSpanish
- pomm, pommitamaEstonian
- bonbaBasque
- بمبPersian
- pommi, pommittaaFinnish
- bombe, bombe sexuelle, bombarderFrench
- bomWestern Frisian
- buamaIrish
- bomaScottish Gaelic
- bomba, bombardear, bombearGalician
- bleaystanManx
- פְּצָצָה, פוצץ, הפציץHebrew
- बम, विस्फोटकHindi
- ócskavas, tragacs, bomba, csotrogány, pokolgép, bombázHungarian
- ռումբArmenian
- bomba, bombardar, bombarInterlingua
- bomIndonesian
- bomboIdo
- spengja, holkúlaIcelandic
- bomba, bombardareItalian
- 爆弾, 爆撃Japanese
- ბომბი, დაბომბვა, ყუმბარების დაშენაGeorgian
- бомбаKazakh
- គ្រាប់បែកKhmer
- ಸಿಡಿಗುಂಡುKannada
- 폭탄, 爆彈Korean
- bombeKurdish
- бомбаKyrgyz
- bomba, pyrobolus, bombardare, urbem tormentis verberareLatin
- BommLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ໂບມ, ບົມLao
- bombaLithuanian
- bumbaLatvian
- бо́мбаMacedonian
- бөмбөгMongolian
- bomMalay
- bomba, karakkaMaltese
- ဗုံး, မိုင်းBurmese
- vlam, flop, wrak, bom, bombarderen, afgaanDutch
- bombeNorwegian
- bomba, bombardowaćPolish
- bomba, bombardear, bombearPortuguese
- bombăRomanian
- секс-бо́мба, бо́мба, автокла́в, [[сосу́д]] [[высокий, красо́тка, бомбить, бомбардироватьRussian
- бомба, bȏmbaSerbo-Croatian
- bomba, bombardovaťSlovak
- bomba, bombardiratiSlovene
- bombëAlbanian
- bomb, bombardera, bombaSwedish
- bomuSwahili
- бомбаTajik
- ระเบิดThai
- bombaTurkmen
- bombaTagalog
- bomba, bombalamakTurkish
- бо́мбаUkrainian
- بمUrdu
- bombaUzbek
- bom, quả bomVietnamese
- boum, boumönVolapük
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