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Nuke vs Fireworks - What's the difference?

nuke | fireworks |

As nouns the difference between nuke and fireworks

is that nuke is nuclear weapon while fireworks is plural and collective of firework.

As a verb nuke

is to use a nuclear weapon on a target.

nuke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Nuclear weapon.
    • "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each''" - John Travolta in the movie ''Swordfish .
  • Something that negates or destroys, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  • (US, slang) A microwave oven
    • "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it. "
  • Nuclear electrical power generation station. http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nuke

    • Verb

    (nuk)
  • To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
    • First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.
  • (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.
    • I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.
  • (colloquial) To completely destroy.
    • 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 )

    Derived terms

    * nuker

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    fireworks

    English

    (wikipedia fireworks)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • Plural and collective of firework.
  • An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
  • (figuratively) An boisterous or violent situation or event.
    • I left the room after John came home drunk but before the fireworks went off.
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