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explode

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?

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boom

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: boo?m
    • (UK) IPA(key): /bu?m/
    • (US) IPA(key): /bum/
  • Rhymes: -u?m

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (to hum, buzz).

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

  1. To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
  2. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
  3. Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
  4. (transitive) To make something boom.
  5. (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
    • 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
      If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
  6. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
    • 1841, Benjamin Totten, Naval Text-book and Dictionary []
      She comes booming down before it.
Derived terms
  • boom box
  • boom-boom
  • sonic boom
Translations

Noun

boom (plural booms)

  1. A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
  2. A rapid expansion or increase.
  3. One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
    • 1990, Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
      Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.
Translations

Interjection

boom

  1. Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
  2. Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
    • 1993, Vibe (volume 1, number 2)
      So we went around the corner, looked in the garbage, and, boom, there's about 16 of the tapes he didn't like!
    • 2013, Peter Westoby, Gerard Dowling, Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development
      Hostile race relations and chronic unemployment are ignored in the suburbs of Paris, London and Sydney, and boom! there are riots.
Derived terms
  • sis boom bah
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch boom (tree; pole). Doublet of beam.

Noun

boom (plural booms)

  1. (nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
  2. A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
  3. (by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.
  4. A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
  5. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
  6. A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
  7. A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
  8. The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
  9. A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.

Derived terms

  • boomhouse
  • boomstick
Related terms
  • (nautical): buoy, cathead
  • crane
Translations

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

  1. To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
  2. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

Etymology 3

Perhaps a figurative development of Etymology 1, above.

Noun

boom (plural booms)

  1. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
Antonyms
  • (period of prosperity): recession
Descendants
  • ? German: Boom
  • Indonesian: bum
  • ? Japanese: ??? (b?mu)
  • ? Polish: boom
Translations

Verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

  1. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
    Synonyms: flourish, prosper
  2. (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
Derived terms
  • boom town
Translations

Anagrams

  • MOBO, mobo, moob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boom, from Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch b?m, boum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??m/

Noun

boom (plural bome, diminutive boompie)

  1. tree

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bôom, from Old Dutch b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum, from Proto-Germanic *baumaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bo?m/
  • Hyphenation: boom
  • Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

boom m (plural bomen, diminutive boompje n)

  1. tree
  2. any solid, pole-shaped, usually wooden object
    1. beam
    2. mast
      Synonym: mast
    3. boom
      Synonym: giek
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: boom
  • ? English: boom
  • ? Indonesian: bom (tree, pole), bum
  • ? Sranan Tongo: bon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu?m/
  • Hyphenation: boom

Noun

boom m (plural booms, diminutive boompje n)

  1. boom, as in a market explosion
Derived terms
  • babyboom
  • boomer

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

See also

  • boom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Boom in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Alternative forms

  • boum

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bum/

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

  1. boom (dramatically fast increase)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom, from Dutch boom - see above.

Noun

boom m (invariable)

  1. A boom (sound)
  2. A boom, rapid expansion
  3. A boom (crane)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Noun

bôom m

  1. tree
  2. beam, pole
  3. boom barrier

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: boom
  • Limburgish: boum

Further reading

  • “boom”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “boom (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Polish

Etymology

From English boom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bum/

Noun

boom m inan

  1. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)
  2. boom (rapid expansion or increase)

Declension

Further reading

  • boom in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
  • boom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

  1. (economics, business) boom (period of prosperity)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English boom.

Noun

boom m (plural booms)

  1. boom (period of prosperity or high market activity)

See also

  • bum

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