Explode vs Torpedo - What's the difference?
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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 )
(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
A fish having wings that generate , a kind of electric ray.
(regional) A submarine sandwich.
(archaic, military) A naval mine.
(obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo
(slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
(rail transport, US) a small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it
A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.
Explode is a related term of torpedo.
As a verb explode
is to destroy with an explosion.As a noun torpedo is
torpedo (underwater weapon).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