Found 3 items, similar to bomb.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bomb
bom, meledakkan bom, membom
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bomb
bomb
v 1: throw bombs at or attack with bombs;
“The Americans bombed
Dresden” [syn:
bombard]
2: fail to get a passing grade;
“She studied hard but failed
nevertheless”;
“Did I fail the test?” [syn:
fail,
flunk,
flush it] [ant:
pass]
bomb
n 1: an explosive device fused to denote under specific
conditions
2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn:
bomb calorimeter]
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,
dud]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bomb
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
\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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