Definitions for bomb
bɒmbomb

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. bombnoun

   an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions

2. bomb calorimeter, bombnoun

   strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion

3. 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"

4. bombard, bombverb

   throw bombs at or attack with bombs

   "The Americans bombed Dresden"

5. fail, flunk, bomb, flush itverb

   fail to get a passing grade

   "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bombnoun

   An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.

   Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.

2. bombnoun

   A failure; an unpopular commercial product.

3. bombnoun

   A car in poor condition.

4. bombnoun

   A large amount of money, a fortune.

   make a bomb, cost a bomb

5. bombnoun

   A success; the bomb.

   Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.

6. bombnoun

   A very attractive woman; a bombshell.

7. bombnoun

   An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.

8. bombnoun

   The atomic bomb.

   During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.

9. bombnoun

   A long forward pass.

10. bombverb

    To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.

11. bombverb

    To fail dismally.

12. bombverb

    To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.

13. bombnoun

    A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.

14. bombnoun

    A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.

15. Bombnoun

    The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack. Often used with the.

    Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.

16. Etymology: From bombe, from bomba, from bombus, from βόμβος, imitative of the sound itself.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOMBnoun

   Etymology: bombus, Lat.

   1. A loud noise.

   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.

   2.A hollow iron ball, or shell, filled with gunpowder, and furnished with a vent for a fusee, or wooden tube, filled with combustible matter; to be thrown out from a mortar, which had its name from the noise it makes. The fusee, being set on fire, burns slowly till it reach the gunpowder, which goes off at once, bursting the shell to pieces with incredible violence; whence the use of bombs in besieging towns. The largest are about eighteen inches in diameter. By whom they were invented, is not known, and the time is uncertain, some fixing it to 1588, and others to
   1495. Ephraim Chambers

   The loud cannon missive iron pours,
   And in the slaught’ring bomb Gradivus roars. Nicholas Rowe.

2. 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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bomb

   A bomb is an explosive device designed to cause destruction, injury, or death through a sudden and violent release of energy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bombnoun

   a great noise; a hollow sound

2. Bombnoun

   a shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell

3. Bombnoun

   a bomb ketch

4. Bombverb

   to bombard

5. Bombverb

   to sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bomb

   [formerly bomber, from bomba]. The mortar of bomb-vessels.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bombnoun

   Marijuana laced with heroin.

2. bombnoun

   Very good. "Gimme that bomb beat from Dre" -- Tupac (California love).

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Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Calorimeter
   • Explosive Device
   • Weaponry

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bomb' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3665

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bomb' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3164

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bomb' in Nouns Frequency: #1138

How to pronounce bomb?

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   Mark

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bomb in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bomb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of bomb in a Sentence

1. Lieutenant Colonel Miftah Uddin:

   All arrested persons hailed from different parts of the country, were engaged there as trainers and conducted training of fire arms handling, bomb manufacturing and militants attack to selected militants.

2. Paul Saunders:

   To be honest with you, they’ve never told me that they make homemade bombs. Only thing I know is that they have some kind of a bomb, but I never see any packaging, i never see anything. I just always see, you know, them blowing stuff up.

3. Allyn Kilsheimer:

   Unless it's a plane or a bomb that you know triggered this whole thing, sometimes you can't get it down to one cause, sometimes ... we don't have enough information to decide between X, Y and Z, so it's some combination of X, Y and Z.

4. Myroslava Sherbina:

   I didn’t want to play so I could hear the sirens and we could go to the bomb shelter.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   Promising to carpet bomb until the desert glows doesn't make you sound strong, it makes you sound like you're in over your head.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bomb
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bomb
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bomb
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bomb
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bomb
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bomb
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Bomb
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=bomb
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html