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Export vs Explode - What's the difference?

export | explode |

As a noun export

is export (the act of exporting).

As a verb explode is

to destroy with an explosion.

export

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of or relating to exportation or exports

    • Noun

    (wikipedia export)
  • (countable) something that is exported
    • Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
  • (uncountable) the act of exporting
    • The export of fish is forbidden in this country.

    Synonyms

    * (the act of exporting ): exportation

    Antonyms

    * (something that is exported ): import * (the act of exporting ): import, importation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to carry away
  • * Francis Bacon
    • [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
  • to sell (goods) to a foreign country
    • Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
  • to cause to spread in another part of the world
  • (computing): to send (data) from one program to another
  • to put up (a child) for international adoption.

    • Synonyms

    * (to carry away ): remove

    Antonyms

    * (to sell (goods) to a foreign country ): import

    Derived terms

    * exportability * exportable * exportation * exporter

    explode

    English

    (explosion)

    Alternative forms

    * asplode, esplode (all non-standard)

    Verb

    (explod)
  • To destroy with an explosion.
    • The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
  • To destroy violently or abruptly.
    • They sought to explode the myth.
  • To create an exploded view.
    • Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
  • (archaic) To disprove or debunk.
  • *, II, 344
    • Astrology is required by many famous physiciansdoubted of, and exploded by others.
  • To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
    • The bomb explodes .
  • (figuratively) To make a violent or emotional outburst.
    • She exploded when I criticised her hat.
  • * 1902 , Albert R. Carman, “My Bridal Trip” (short story), in The Canadian Magazine , Volume 20, Number 1 (November 1902), page 15:
    • “Nonsense!” Jack exploded at me. “Why Miss Bertram here knocked that theory into a cocked hat coming over on the train.”
  • (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
    • 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.
  • To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
  • * 1992 , "Steve Tibbett", PKZIP Implode compression/decompression.'' (on newsgroup ''comp.compression )
    • 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

    * unstring