Bomb vs Boma - What's the difference?
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An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
* 2008 , Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent ,
# (label) The atomic bomb.
# (label) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
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, title= (label) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
* 1997 , Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies ,
* 2010 , (Tony Curtis), (Peter Golenbock), American Prince: My Autobiography ,
* 2011 , Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture ,
# A car in poor condition.
#* 2005 August 6, Warm affection for a rust-bucket past , [http://www.smh.com.au/news/words/warm-affection-for-a-rustbucket-past/2005/08/04/1123125839592.html]
#* 2010 , Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice ,
#* 2011 , Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine ,
A large amount of money, a fortune.
* 2009 , Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard ,
* 2010 , Liz Young, Fair Game ,
* 2011 , Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue ,
* 2011 , Bibe, A Victim ,
(label) Something highly effective or attractive.
# A success; the bomb.
# A very attractive woman; a bombshell.
# An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
# A long forward pass.
# (label) A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.
(label) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
* 2008 , François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference ,
(label) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(intransitive) To attack using one or more s; to bombard.
* 2000 , Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research , Volumes 32-33,
* 2005 , Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present ,
* 2007 , David Parker, Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939 ,
(slang) To fail dismally.
* 1992 June, Lynn Norment, Arsenio Hall: Claiming the Late-night Crown'', in '' ,
* 2000 , Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview'', in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, ''Comic Book Artist Collection ,
* 2008 , Erik Sternberger, The Long and Winding Road ,
(informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
(obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
(slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
(informal, AU) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
(slang) Great, awesome.
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An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
* 2004 , J H Patterson, The Man Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures , Kessinger Publishing, page 17,
* 1993 , Cordelia Dykes Owens, The Eye of the Elephant , Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0395680905, page 91,
* 2003 , Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood, Alan and Rabinowitz, People and Wildlife, Conflict Or Co-existence? , Cambridge University Press, page 298,
A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
* 2003 , Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, and Muriel Brookfield, Agrodiversity , United Nations University Press, page 108,
A hide.
* 1922 , Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla trail'', quoted in Mary Zeiss Strange (editor), ''Heart Shots: Women write about hunting , Stackpole Books, page 182,
A hut.
* 2004 , Jacyee Aniagolu-Johnson, Mikela , iUniverse, page 3,
(East African) A military or police post or magistracy.
* (rfdate) “Muyumbwe boma needs police post” (news report),
A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
* (rfdate)
A method of composting.
* (rfdate)
As nouns the difference between bomb and boma
is that bomb is an explosive device used or intended as a weapon while boma is an enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.As a verb bomb
is to attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.As an adjective bomb
is great, awesome.bomb
English
(wikipedia bomb)Noun
(en noun)page 629,
- The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb .
Martin Lukacs
Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy, passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb , this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}
page 277,
- Projection problems plagued Countess? London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb .
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- The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa , in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
page 11,
- The movie was a bomb , but it put the band before an even larger audience.
- Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
page 19,
- We?ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb .
page 49,
- After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car
page 133,
- When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must?ve cost a bomb .”
page 136,
- ‘You?ve already spent a bomb !’
- ‘Not on'' it, Sal — ''under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he?s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.’
page 47,
- The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
page 38,
- He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.
page 276,
- The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb .
- A pillar of irona great bomb in the chamber beneath.
Usage notes
* The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally the bomb''. Otherwise ''bomb can mean “a failure”.Synonyms
* (attractive woman) bombshell * (car) rustbucket * (large amount of money) fortune, packet, pretty pennyDerived terms
* A-bomb * atom bomb * atomic bomb * barrel bomb * bomb squad * car bomb * dirty bomb * E-bomb * F-bomb * gay bomb * H-bomb * hydrogen bomb * neutron bomb * paper bomb * petrol bomb * pipe bomb * sex bombSee also
* lemonVerb
(en verb)page 65,
- 15 May: US jets bombed' air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally ' bombing civilian targets. (AP)
page 421,
- Italy had bombed' cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had ' bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.
page 59,
- Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.
page 74,
- So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed' several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he ' bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.
page 12,
- Carmen: Then it bombed' and it ' bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I?m trying everything I can but it?s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.
page 62,
- She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn?t seem to get her out of his mind.
- (Ben Jonson)
- It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
Derived terms
* bomber * bomb outAdjective
(en adjective)- Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb !
See also
* the bomb English contranyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Verb
(head)boma
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Orders had been given for the enterance to the boma' to be blocked up, and accordingly we listened in the expectation of hearing the lion force his way through the bushes with his prey. As a matter of fact the doorway had not been closed and while we were wondering what the lion could be doing inside the ' boma for so long, he was outside reconnoitering our position.
- Carrying the hot water kettle, Mark follows the footpath through the dark camp to the boma . Surrounded by tall grass the boma is a three-sided structure of sticks and reeds standing at the edge of Marula Puku.
- Recent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation.
- the area has three main groups. The Wamasi and Waarushaare still settled on the boma' system where the clan settle in one cluster called a ' boma comprised of several houses enclosed in a fence leaving the centre open for keeping livestock.
- You try to arrange the scene so the moonlight will be on the bait with a clear background against which the lion will show up. You pile as much fresh brush as you can on your thicket or boma , as the hiding place is called, for the lion can see as well by day as by night.
- The exotic beauty of our Masaailand is a marvel to our creator, she thought as she stepped back into her boma, a typical Masaai hut built with grass, dry sticks and twigs and covered with cow dung for insulation.
- Gwembe district police officer-in-charge Adams Gondwe has appealed to Government to put up a police post in Muyumbwe boma to replace one that was washed away by floods last year.
- The cattle are usually corralled overnight which enables farmers to collect farmyard or boma manure.
- The boma method is used on farms where there are animals which are kept in enclosures where droppings are concentrated.
