Bowling vs Nuke - What's the difference?
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A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling
(label) Candlepin bowling.
Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
(label) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
(label) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
(label) The action of the verb .
(label) Road bowling.
Nuclear weapon.
Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
(US, slang) A microwave oven
Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke
To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
(colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
(colloquial) To completely destroy.
As verbs the difference between bowling and nuke
is that bowling is present participle of lang=en while nuke is to use a nuclear weapon on a target.As nouns the difference between bowling and nuke
is that bowling is a game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling while nuke is nuclear weapon.bowling
English
(bowling)Verb
(head)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* bowling alley * bowling ball * bowling green * ten-pin bowling * candlepin bowlingSee also
* boules * bowls * crown green bowling * lawn bowls * ninepins * skittlesAnagrams
* ----nuke
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
- "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
Verb
(nuk)- First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
- I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
- 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 )