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bowling
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??l??/, [?b?????]
- (US) IPA(key): /?bo?li?/
- Rhymes: -??l??
Verb
bowling
- present participle of bowl
Noun
bowling (uncountable)
- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling
- (New England) Candlepin bowling.
- Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
- (Ireland) Road bowling.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- boules
- bowls
- crown green bowling
- lawn bowls
- ninepins
- skittles
- ???? (emoji)
Anagrams
- blowing
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English bowling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?wle?/, [?b??wle?]
Noun
bowling c (singular definite bowlingen, not used in plural form)
- bowling
Inflection
Further reading
- “bowling” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English bowling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.li?/
Noun
bowling m (plural bowlings)
- bowling
- A place where one can play bowling.
Further reading
- “bowling” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English bowling.
Noun
bowling m (invariable)
- ten-pin bowling
- bowling alley
Polish
Etymology
From English bowling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?w.l?ink/
Noun
bowling m inan
- tenpin bowling
Declension
Derived terms
- (adjective) bowlingowy
Further reading
- bowling in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- bowling in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From English bowling.
Noun
bowling n (uncountable)
- bowling
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?boulin/, [?bou?.l?n]
- IPA(key): /?bolin/, [?bo.l?n]
Noun
bowling m (plural bowlings)
- bowling alley
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English bowling.
Noun
bowling c
- bowling; a game played by rolling a ball down an alley
Declension
bowling From the web:
- what bowling alleys are open
- what bowling alleys are open near me
- what bowling ball should i use
- what bowling alley was the big lebowski filmed at
- what bowling ball hooks the most
- what bowling alleys are open today
- what bowling ball should i buy
- what bowling alleys are open right now
nuke
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nju?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /n(j)uk/
- Rhymes: -u?k
- Homophones: neuk, nuc
- Hyphenation: nuke
Etymology 1
Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
nuke (plural nukes) (chiefly US, colloquial)
- A nuclear weapon.
- (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
- A nuclear power station.
- (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
- A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
- (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
- (rare) A microwave oven.
Derived terms
- antinuke
- micronuke
- nukage
- nukespeak
- nukewar
- tacnuke
Translations
Verb
nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)
- (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
- (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
- Synonyms: annihilate, devastate, obliterate; see also Thesaurus:destroy
- (Wikimedia Commons jargon) to completely delete all uploads of an user, usually due to copyright violations or vandalism
- (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
- (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
- (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
- (transitive, warez) To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a dupe of an earlier release or containing malware).
- (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To over-analyze or overly despair over something.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Clipping of nuc(leus)
Noun
nuke (plural nukes)
- Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”)
Etymology 3
See nucha.
Noun
nuke (plural nukes)
- (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”)
Etymology 4
See nook.
Noun
nuke (plural nukes)
- (chiefly Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”)
References
Further reading
- nuke (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- neuk, unke
nuke From the web:
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- what nuke hit hiroshima
- what nukes does the us have
- what nukes have been used
- what nukes does russia have
- what nuke means
- what nuke can destroy the world
- what nukes hit japan
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