bomb
7 definitions found
bomb - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bomb \Bomb\, v. t.
To bombard. [Obs.] --Prior.
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Bomb \Bomb\, v. i. [Cf. Boom.]
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
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Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
buzzing noise, Gr. ?.]
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1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
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A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
beneath. --Bacon.
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2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
from mortars. See Shell.
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3. A bomb ketch.
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Bomb chest (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with
gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
its explosion.
Bomb ketch, Bomb vessel (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel,
very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be
used in naval bombardments; -- called also mortar vessel
.
Bomb lance, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used
in whale fishing.
Volcanic bomb, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.
"I noticed volcanic bombs." --Darwin.
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bomb - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
bomb
n 1: an explosive device fused to explode under specific
conditions
2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn:
bomb calorimeter, bomb]
3: 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" [syn: turkey, bomb,
dud]
v 1: throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed
Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb]
2: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed
nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk,
bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass]
bomb - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
bomb
1. <software> General synonym for crash except that it is
not used as a noun. Especially used of software or OS
failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll
bomb".
2. <operating system> Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents
of a Unix "panic" or Amiga guru, in which icons of
little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed,
indicating that the system has died. On the Macintosh, this
may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally
hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to
the Amiga guru meditation number. MS-DOS computers tend
to lock up in this situation.
3. <software> A piece of code embedded in a program that
remains dormant until it is triggered. Logic bombs are
triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either
after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific
date is reached.
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(1996-12-08)
bomb - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
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.
bomb - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
220 Moby Thesaurus words for "bomb":
A-bomb, Grand Guignol, H-bomb, Passion play, Tom show, aerial bomb,
antimasque, antipersonnel bomb, astonishment, atom-bomb,
atomic bomb, audience success, ballet, batter, be a gas, be a hit,
bill, blast, blitz, blockbuster, blow, blow to pieces, blow up,
bombard, bombshell, broadcast drama, burlesque show, bust,
cannonade, carcass, catch, charade, cliff hanger, closet drama,
comedy drama, concussion grenade, crap out, critical success,
daytime serial, depth bomb, depth charge, dialogue, dive-bomb,
documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play,
dramatic series, dramatize, draw a blank, drop a bomb,
drop the ball, dud, dull thud, duodrama, duologue, earthshaker,
epic theater, experimental theater, explosive, extravaganza,
eye-opener, fail, failure, fall flat, fan, feature, fire bomb,
fireball, fizzle, flat failure, flop, floperoo, flummox, fold,
fold up, frost, fusion bomb, gas grenade, gasser, get left,
giveaway, glide-bomb, grenade, hand grenade, happening, headline,
hit, hit show, hydrobomb, hydrogen bomb, improvisational drama,
incendiary, incendiary bomb, incendiary grenade, infernal machine,
joker, kicker, lay an egg, legitimate drama, lemon, lose out,
loser, make a hit, masque, melodrama, melodramatize, mine,
minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue,
morality, morality play, mount, music drama, musical revue,
mystery, mystery play, not hack it, not make it, open, open a show,
opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama,
peripeteia, petard, piece, pipe bomb, play, playlet,
plutonium bomb, premiere, present, preview, problem play, produce,
psychodrama, put on, quiz show, radio drama, razon bomb,
revelation, review, revue, robot bomb, roc, rocket bomb,
satchel charge, scenarize, sensational play, serial, set the stage,
shell, shocker, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skip-bomb,
skit, smoke bomb, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, spring,
stage, stage play, stage show, staggerer, star, startler,
stench bomb, stink bomb, straight drama, strike out, succeed,
success, surprisal, surprise, surprise ending, surprise package,
surprise party, suspense drama, switch, tableau, tableau vivant,
take the count, talk show, tear-gas bomb, tear-gas grenade,
teleplay, television drama, television play, theater of cruelty,
theatricalize, thermonuclear bomb, thunderbolt, thunderclap,
time bomb, total loss, total theater, try out, turkey,
variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, wall grenade,
washout, wear thin, whiff, word-of-mouth success, work
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