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Definition of 'Bomb' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) bomb
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.

2.  bomb
any explosive device used as a weapon:
a time bomb; a smoke bomb; a car bomb.

3.  bomb
a rough spherical or ellipsoidal mass of lava, ejected from a volcano and hardened while falling.

4.  bomb
an aerosol can and its contents.

5.  bomb
a long forward pass in football.

6.  bomb
Slang.

7.  bomb
an absolute failure.

8.  bomb
Brit. a success; hit.

9.  bomb
the bomb,

10.  bomb
nuclear weapons collectively.

11. (v.t.) bomb
to hurl bombs at or drop bombs upon, as from an airplane; bombard.

12. (v.i.) bomb
to hurl or drop bombs.

13.  bomb
Slang. to fail decisively; flop (sometimes fol. by out).

14.  bomb
Informal. to move very quickly.

Etymology:  (1580–90; earlier bom(b)e < Sp bomba (de fuego) ball (of fire))

Definition of 'Bomb' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) bomb
an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions

2. (noun) bomb calorimeter, bomb
strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion

3. (verb) turkey, bomb, dud
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"

4. (verb) bombard, bomb
throw bombs at or attack with bombs
"The Americans bombed Dresden"

5. (verb) fail, flunk, bomb, flush it
fail to get a passing grade
"She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"


Definition of 'Bomb' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) bomb
an exploding weapon
to plant a bomb; A car bomb killed three civilians.

2. (verb) bomb
to attack with bombs
aircraft bombed the city

3.  bomb
to do sth badly
I bombed that test.

4.  bomb
to be unsuccessful
His first Broadway show bombed.


Definition of 'Bomb' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Bomb
a great noise; a hollow sound

2. (noun) Bomb
a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell

3. (noun) Bomb
a bomb ketch

4. (verb) Bomb
to bombard

5. (verb) Bomb
to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound


Definitions of 'Bomb' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  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.


Translation of 'Bomb' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a hollow case containing explosives etc
The enemy dropped a bomb on the factory and blew it up.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: bom Arabic flag Arabic: قُنْبُلَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: бомба
Brazilian flag Brazilian: bomba Czech flag Czech: bomba German flag German: die Bombe
Danish flag Danish: bombe Greek flag Greek: βόμβα Spanish flag Spanish: bomba
Estonian flag Estonian: pomm Farsi flag Farsi: بمب Finnish flag Finnish: pommi
French flag French: bombe Hebrew flag Hebrew: פְּצָצָה Hindi flag Hindi: बम
Croatian flag Croatian: bomba Hungarian flag Hungarian: bomba Indonesian flag Indonesian: bom
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sprengja Italian flag Italian: bomba Japanese flag Japanese: 爆弾
Korean flag Korean: 폭탄 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: bomba Latvian flag Latvian: bumba
Malay flag Malay: bom Dutch flag Dutch: bom Norwegian flag Norwegian: bombe
Polish flag Polish: bomba Persian flag Persian: بمب Pashto flag Pashto: بمب
Portuguese flag Portuguese: bomba Romanian flag Romanian: bombă Russian flag Russian: бомба
Slovak flag Slovak: bomba Slovenian flag Slovenian: bomba Serbian flag Serbian: bomba
Swedish flag Swedish: bomb Thai flag Thai: ลูกระเบิด Turkish flag Turkish: bomba
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 炸彈 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: бомба Urdu flag Urdu: بم
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: quả bom Chinese flag Chinese: 炸弹

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