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Bombed vs Combed - What's the difference?

bombed | combed |

As verbs the difference between bombed and combed

is that bombed is (bomb) while combed is (comb).

bombed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bomb)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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)
  • ----

    combed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (comb)

  • comb

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
  • *
  • *:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
  • A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
  • A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
  • A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
  • An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
  • *1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), , Vol.4, p.207:
  • *:But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
  • The top part of a gun’s stock.
  • The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
  • (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
  • A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
  • A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
  • The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
  • The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
  • One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
  • The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
  • A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
  • (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
  • Synonyms

    * (skin on head of birds) cockscomb, crest

    Coordinate terms

    * (skin on head of birds) caruncle, snood, wattle

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from "comb") * backcomb * comb-footed spider * comb jelly * combover * currycomb * drop at comb * fine-tooth comb * razor comb * Venus' comb

    Coordinate terms

    * orling

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a .
  • To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
  • To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
  • (nautical) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (abbreviation) Combination.
  • Anagrams

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