Definitions for BOMBbɒm
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
bombbɒm(n.)
a case filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a detonating device or by impact, esp. one designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
Category: Military
any explosive device used as a weapon:
a time bomb; a smoke bomb; a car bomb.
Category: Military
a rough spherical or ellipsoidal mass of lava, ejected from a volcano and hardened while falling.
Category: Geology
an aerosol can and its contents.
a long forward pass in football.
Category: Sport
Slang. an absolute failure. Brit. a success; hit.
Category: Common Vocabulary, British
the bomb, nuclear weapons collectively.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Physics
Ref: atomic bomb.
(v.t.)to hurl bombs at or drop bombs upon, as from an airplane; bombard.
Slang.to defeat decisively; trounce.
(v.i.)to hurl or drop bombs.
Slang. to fail decisively; flop (sometimes fol. by out).
Informal. to move very quickly.
Category: Common Vocabulary
Origin of bomb:
1580–90; earlier bom(b)e < Sp bomba (de fuego) ball (of fire)
bomb′able(adj.)
Princeton's WordNet
bomb(noun)
an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
bomb calorimeter, bomb(noun)
strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
turkey, bomb, dud(verb)
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, bomb(verb)
throw bombs at or attack with bombs
"The Americans bombed Dresden"
fail, flunk, bomb, flush it(verb)
fail to get a passing grade
"She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
bomb(noun)ˈɑɑm
an exploding weapon
to plant a bomb; A car bomb killed three civilians.
bomb(verb)ˈɑɑm
to attack with bombs
aircraft bombed the city
bombˈɑɑm
to do sth badly
I bombed that test.
bombˈɑɑm
to be unsuccessful
His first Broadway show bombed.
Wiktionary
bomb(Noun)
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
bomb(Noun)
A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
bomb(Noun)
A car in poor condition.
bomb(Noun)
A large amount of money, a fortune.
make a bomb, cost a bomb
bomb(Noun)
A success; the bomb.
Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.
bomb(Noun)
A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
bomb(Noun)
An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
bomb(Noun)
The atomic bomb.
During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.
bomb(Noun)
A long forward pass.
bomb(Verb)
To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
bomb(Verb)
To fail dismally.
bomb(Verb)
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
bomb(Noun)
A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
bomb(Noun)
A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.
Bomb(Noun)
The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack. Often used with u201Ctheu201D.
Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
Origin: From bombe, from bomba, from bombus, from βόμβος, imitative of the sound itself.
Webster Dictionary
Bomb(noun)
a great noise; a hollow sound
Bomb(noun)
a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell
Bomb(noun)
a bomb ketch
Bomb(verb)
to bombard
Bomb(verb)
to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound
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.
Translations for BOMB
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
- bombardeerAfrikaans
- يَقْذِفُ بالقَنابِل، يَقْصِفُArabic
- бомбардирамBulgarian
- bombardearPortuguese (BR)
- bombardovatCzech
- bombardierenGerman
- bombeDanish
- βομβαρδίζωGreek
- bombardearSpanish
- pommitamaEstonian
- بمباران کردنFarsi
- pommittaaFinnish
- bombarderFrench
- לְהַפְצִיץHebrew
- बम गिरानाHindi
- bombardiratiCroatian
- bombázHungarian
- membom, mengebomIndonesian
- varpa sprengjum (á); gera sprengjuárás (á)Icelandic
- bombardareItalian
- 爆撃するJapanese
- 폭탄을 투하하다Korean
- bombarduotiLithuanian
- bombardēt; mest bumbasLatvian
- dibomMalay
- bombarderenDutch
- bombeNorwegian
- bombardowaćPolish
- بمباران کردنPersian
- بمباری کولPashto
- bombardearPortuguese
- a bombardaRomanian
- бомбитьRussian
- bombardovaťSlovak
- bombardiratiSlovenian
- bombardovatiSerbian
- bombaSwedish
- ทิ้งระเบิดThai
- bombalamakTurkish
- 投炸彈於Chinese (Trad.)
- бомбитиUkrainian
- بمباری کرناUrdu
- ném bomVietnamese
- 投炸弹于Chinese (Simp.)
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