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Meltdown vs Tragedy - What's the difference?

meltdown | tragedy |

As nouns the difference between meltdown and tragedy

is that meltdown is severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping while tragedy is a drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.

meltdown

English

(wikipedia meltdown)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
    • Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding. [http://www.time.com/time/daily/chernobyl/chernobyl.index.html]
  • A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
  • * 2001 , James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling'' (in ''The Daily Star )
    • Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex.
    Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262]
  • (figuratively) A tantrum.

    • Derived terms

    * nuclear meltdown * market meltdown * techno-meltdown

    See also

    * China syndrome

    tragedy

    English

    (wikipedia tragedy)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic) * (l) (archaic) * (archaic) * (l) (archaic) * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (tragedies)
  • A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
  • The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
  • A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}

    Antonyms

    * comedy

    Derived terms

    * tragedian * tragedy of the commons * tragic * tragic irony * tragicomedy

    Anagrams

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