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炸弹,爆炸,爆炸性事件轰炸,炸毁
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
Bomb \Bomb\, v. i. [Cf. {Boom}.]
To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
--B. Jonson.
Bomb \Bomb\, v. t.
To bombard. [Obs.] --Prior.
资料来源 : WordNet®
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}]
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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
of a {Unix} "{panic}" or {Amiga} {guru}, in which {icon}s 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)