Explode vs Eliminate - What's the difference?
explode | eliminate |
To destroy with an explosion.
To destroy violently or abruptly.
To create an exploded view.
(archaic) To disprove or debunk.
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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 )
(slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(physiology) To excrete (waste products).
To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
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As verbs the difference between explode and eliminate
is that explode is to destroy with an explosion while eliminate isto completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists
. 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
Synonyms
* unstringeliminate
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Verb
(eliminat)To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
- Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
- John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
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