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Bomb vs Burst - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between bomb and burst

is that bomb is an explosive device used or intended as a weapon while burst is an instance of, or the act of bursting.

As verbs the difference between bomb and burst

is that bomb is to attack using one or more bombs; to bombard while burst is to break from internal pressure.

As an adjective bomb

is great, awesome.

bomb

English

(wikipedia bomb)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
  • * 2008 , Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent , page 629,
    • The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb .
  • # (label) The atomic bomb.
  • # (label) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-25, author= Martin Lukacs
    • , volume=190, issue=20, page=13, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • (label) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  • * 1997 , Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies , 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 .
  • * 2010 , (Tony Curtis), (Peter Golenbock), American Prince: My Autobiography , unnumbered page,
    • The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa , in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.
  • * 2011 , Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture , page 11,
    • The movie was a bomb , but it put the band before an even larger audience.
  • # 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]
  • Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.
  • #* 2010 , Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice , page 19,
  • We?ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb .
  • #* 2011 , Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine , 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
  • A large amount of money, a fortune.
  • * 2009 , Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard , page 133,
    • When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must?ve cost a bomb .”
  • * 2010 , Liz Young, Fair Game , 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.’
  • * 2011 , Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue , page 47,
    • The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.
  • * 2011 , Bibe, A Victim , 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.
  • (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 , page 276,
    • The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb .
  • (label) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • 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 penny

    Derived 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 bomb

    See also

    * lemon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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, 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)
  • * 2005 , Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present , 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.
  • * 2007 , David Parker, Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939 , 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.
  • (slang) To fail dismally.
  • * 1992 June, Lynn Norment, Arsenio Hall: Claiming the Late-night Crown'', in '' , 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.
  • * 2000 , Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview'', in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, ''Comic Book Artist Collection , 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.
  • * 2008 , Erik Sternberger, The Long and Winding Road , page 62,
    • She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn?t seem to get her out of his mind.
  • (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.
    • (Ben Jonson)
  • (slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
  • * 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)
    • It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.
  • (informal, AU) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.

    • Derived terms

    * bomber * bomb out

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Great, awesome.
    • Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb !

    See also

    * the bomb English contranyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    burst

    English

    (wikipedia burst)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of, or the act of bursting .
    • The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
  • A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

    • Derived terms

    * cloudburst

    Verb

  • To break from internal pressure.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • To cause to break from internal pressure.
  • (obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
  • * Fairfax
    • He burst his lance against the sand below.
  • To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
  • To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
  • * 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
    • Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
  • To produce as an effect of bursting.
    • to burst a hole through the wall

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "burst")

    Derived terms

    * burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubble

    Related terms

    * bust