Combust vs Explode - What's the difference?
combust | explode |
(obsolete) Burnt.
(astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
*, I.iii.1.3:
*:Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust , otherwise illiterate.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
To destroy with an explosion.
To destroy violently or abruptly.
To create an exploded view.
(archaic) To disprove or debunk.
*, II, 344
To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
(figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
* 1902 , Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine , Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902),
(computing, programming, PHP) To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
* 2004 , Hugh E. Williams, ?David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL
To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
* 1992 , "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.'' (on newsgroup ''comp.compression )
As verbs the difference between combust and explode
is that combust is to burn; to catch fire while explode is to destroy with an explosion.As an adjective combust
is (obsolete) burnt.combust
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Derived terms
() * combustion * combustible * incombustibleHyponyms
* deflagrate * detonateAdjective
(en adjective)- Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust , and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning.
explode
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(explosion)Alternative forms
* asplode, esplode (all non-standard)Verb
(explod)- The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
- They sought to explode the myth.
- Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
- Astrology is required by many famous physiciansdoubted of, and exploded by others.
- The bomb explodes .
- She exploded when I criticised her hat.
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- “Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”
- The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.
- I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work