different between explode vs denotate

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

Etymology

Latin denotatus (“marked”), past participle of denoto (“I mark, I observe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?n??te?t/

Verb

denotate (third-person singular simple present denotates, present participle denotating, simple past and past participle denotated)

1. (archaic) To mark off; to denote.

   • These terms […] denotate a longer time.

References

denotate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• detonate

Italian

Verb

denotate

1. second-person plural present indicative of denotare
2. second-person plural imperative of denotare
3. feminine plural of denotato

Anagrams

• detonate

Latin

Verb

d?not?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?not?