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Nuke vs Antinuke - What's the difference?

nuke | antinuke |

As nouns the difference between nuke and antinuke

is that nuke is mother while antinuke is (informal) one who opposes nuclear weapons.

As an adjective antinuke is

opposed to nukes (nuclear weapons).

nuke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Nuclear weapon.
    • "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
  • Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  • (US, slang) A microwave oven
    • "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
  • Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke

    • Verb

    (nuk)
  • To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
    • First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
  • (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
    • I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
  • (colloquial) To completely destroy.
    • To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )

    Derived terms

    * nuker

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    antinuke

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposed to nukes (nuclear weapons).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) One who opposes nuclear weapons.
  • * 1996 , Fred D. White, Communicating technology: dynamic processes and models for writers
    • But when the antinukes quote this study, they do not tell anybody that it's been discredited.