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English Dictionary: bomb by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bomb
n
  1. an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions
  2. strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion
    Synonym(s): bomb calorimeter, bomb
  3. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
    Synonym(s): turkey, bomb, dud
v
  1. throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden"
    Synonym(s): bombard, bomb
  2. fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
    Synonym(s): fail, flunk, bomb, flush it
    Antonym(s): make it, pass
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bomb \Bomb\, v. i. [Cf. {Boom}.]
      To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound. [Obs.]
      --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bomb \Bomb\, v. t.
      To bombard. [Obs.] --Prior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bomb \Bomb\, n. [F. bombe bombshell, fr. L. bombus a humming or
      buzzing noise, Gr. [?].]
      1. A great noise; a hollow sound. [Obs.]
  
                     A pillar of iron . . . which if you had struck,
                     would make . . . a great bomb in the chamber
                     beneath.                                             --Bacon.
  
      2. (Mil.) A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired
            from mortars. See {Shell}.
  
      3. A bomb ketch.
  
      {Bomb chest} (Mil.), a chest filled with bombs, or only with
            gunpowder, placed under ground, to cause destruction by
            its explosion.
  
      {Bomb ketch}, {Bomb vessel} (Naut.), a small ketch or vessel,
            very strongly built, on which mortars are mounted to be
            used in naval bombardments; -- called also {mortar
            vessel}.
  
      {Bomb lance}, a lance or harpoon with an explosive head, used
            in whale fishing.
  
      {Volcanic bomb}, a mass of lava of a spherical or pear shape.
            [bd]I noticed volcanic bombs.[b8] --Darwin.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   bomb   1. v. General synonym for {crash} (sense 1) except that
   it is not used as a noun; esp. used of software or OS failures.
   "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb."   2. n.,v.
   Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix `panic' or Amiga {guru}
   (sense 2), in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom
   clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died.   On the
   Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally
   hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amiga
   {guru meditation} number.   {{MS-DOS}} machines tend to get {locked
   up} in this situation.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   bomb
  
      1. General synonym for {crash} except that it is
      not used as a noun.   Especially used of software or {OS}
      failures.   "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll
      bomb".
  
      2. {Atari ST} and {Macintosh} equivalents
      of a {Unix} "{panic}" or {Amiga} {guru}, in which {icon}s of
      little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed,
      indicating that the system has died.   On the {Macintosh}, this
      may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally
      {hexadecimal}) number indicating what went wrong, similar to
      the {Amiga} {guru meditation} number.   {MS-DOS} computers tend
      to {lock up} in this situation.
  
      3. A piece of code embedded in a program that
      remains dormant until it is triggered.   Logic bombs are
      triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either
      after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific
      date is reached.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1996-12-08)
  
  
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