different between grenade vs minefield

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French grenade, from Old French grenate in the phrase pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), ultimately from Medieval Latin pomum (“apple”) + granatum (“having grains”). The -d developed in French under influence of Spanish granada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????ne?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

grenade (plural grenades)

1. A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched from a grenade launcher.
2. (obsolete) A pomegranate.
3. (heraldry) A charge similar to a fireball, and made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, but with only one set of flames at the top.
4. (slang) An unattractive girl.

Hyponyms

• grenado
• hand grenade
• rocket-propelled grenade
• Mills bomb

Derived terms

Related terms

• garnet
• grenado
• pomegranate

Translations

Verb

grenade (third-person singular simple present grenades, present participle grenading, simple past and past participle grenaded)

1. To use grenade(s) upon.
   • 2001, Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, page 43:

     Some of the infantry got pinned down by it, and from cover kept up the battle by grenading rubble piles or any other likely spots ahead of them.

   • 2015, Gordon L. Rottman, The Hand Grenade, page 46:

     They advanced after grenading the next traverse, much like the British did.

Translations

Anagrams

• Redange, agender, angered, derange, en garde, enraged, grandee

French

Etymology

Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin gr?n?tum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.nad/

Noun

grenade f (plural grenades)

1. pomegranate
2. grenade
3. insignia, badge
4. (heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry).

Derived terms

• grenadier
• grenadine

Further reading

• “grenade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dérange, dérangé

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?re?nade]

Noun

grenade f pl

1. indefinite plural of grenad?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of grenad?

English

Alternative forms

• mine field

Etymology

mine +? field

Pronunciation

Noun

minefield (plural minefields)

1. An area in which land mines have been laid.
2. (by extension) A dangerous situation.
3. (cricket) A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
4. A quiz without right of mistake.

Derived terms

• tiptoe through a minefield

Translations

Further reading

• Land mine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dimefline, mefenidil