different between explode vs blowout

English

Alternative forms

• asplode, esplode (both non-standard)

Etymology

First recorded around 1538, from the Latin verb expl?dere meaning to "drive out or off by clapping". The meaning was originally theatrical, "to drive an actor off the stage by making noise," hence meaning to "to drive out" or "to reject". From ex- (“out”) + plaudere (“to clap; to applaud”). In English it used to mean to "drive out with violence and sudden noise" (from around 1660), and later meaning to "go off with a loud noise" (from around 1790).

The sense of "bursting with destructive force" is first recorded around 1882.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?spl??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?splo?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Verb

explode (third-person singular simple present explodes, present participle exploding, simple past and past participle exploded)

1. (transitive) To destroy with an explosion.

   Synonyms: blow up, blow, blast, burst

2. (transitive) To destroy violently or abruptly.

3. (transitive) To create an exploded view of.

4. (transitive, archaic) To disprove or debunk.
   • , II, 344

     Astrology is required by many famous physicians […] doubted of, and exploded by others.

   • 1783, Richard Wooddeson, Lectures on the Law of England, 229

     Another instance of the like nature is, that the old opinion, that Turks and infidels are perpetually to be considered as alien enemies, has been long exploded.

5. (intransitive) To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

6. (figuratively, intransitive) To make a violent or emotional outburst.

   Synonym: blow up

   • 1902, Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:

     “Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”

7. (figuratively, intransitive) To increase suddenly.

   Synonym: blow up
8. (computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
   • 2004, Hugh E. Williams, David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

     The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.

9. (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.

   Synonym: unstring

   • 1992, "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression. (on newsgroup comp.compression)

     I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]

10. (transitive) To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.

Conjugation

Related terms

• explosion
• explosive
• implode
• implosive
• applaud

Translations

Latin

Verb

expl?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of expl?d?

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blo?a?t/

Noun

blowout (plural blowouts)

1. A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
2. A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
3. (slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
4. (slang) A large or extravagant meal.
   • 2011, Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North: with Paris

     The dining room at Alain Ducasse's flagship Paris restaurant gleams with 10,000 crystals, confirming that this is the flashiest place in town for a blowout meal.

5. (slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.

   The game between the two teams was nothing but a blowout.

6. (slang) An argument; an altercation.
   • 2014, Christine Pope, Star Crossed (page 141)

     The day my aunt and I had talked was just as vivid to me now as it had been eight years ago, when I'd had a blowout with my mother over my decision to go to school in Tucson rather than staying safely up here in northern Arizona.

7. (geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
8. (Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
9. The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
10. An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.

Derived terms

See also

• blow out

Anagrams

• bowl out, bowl-out, outblow, outbowl