Bombard vs Invite - What's the difference?
bombard | invite |
a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
* Knolles
(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
(obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
(poetic, rare) A bombardment.
(music) A bombardon.
To attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
(figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
(physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
As verbs the difference between bombard and invite
is that bombard is to attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles while invite is .As a noun bombard
is a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.bombard
English
Noun
(en noun)- They planted in divers places twelve great bombards , wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
- yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* bombDerived terms
* bombardier * bombardment * bombard phraseinvite
English
Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.
