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Bomb - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Bomb : (noun)
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]
(verb)
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Bomb : \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
buzzing noise, Gr. ?.]
1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
beneath. --Bacon.
2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
from mortars. See Shell.
3. A bomb ketch.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bomb : \Bomb\, v. i. [Cf. Boom.]
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bomb : \Bomb\, v. t.
To bombard. [Obs.] --Prior.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bomb :
1. 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. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents
Unix_"{panic">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. 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.
[{Jargon File]
(1996-12-08)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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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
guru_meditation_number._{MS-DOS">wrong, similar to the Amiga guru meditation number. {MS-DOS
machines tend to get locked up in this situation.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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