Nuke vs Firework - What's the difference?
nuke | firework |
Nuclear weapon.
Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
(US, slang) A microwave oven
Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke
To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
(colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
(colloquial) To completely destroy.
A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.
As nouns the difference between nuke and firework
is that nuke is mother while firework is a device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.nuke
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
- "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
Verb
(nuk)- First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
- I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
- To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.''http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke (see also ''expunge )