bamboo
         n 1: the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction
               and crafts and fishing poles
         2: woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes
            used for construction and furniture

English Dictionary: bomb	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Banff n a popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies
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bimbo n a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men
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bomb n an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion Synonym(s): bomb calorimeter, bomb 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 throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" Synonym(s): bombard, bomb 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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bombay n a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India Synonym(s): Mumbai, Bombay
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bombie n an unexploded bomblet; "unexploded bomblets known in Laos as `bombies' caused farmers to fear cultivating their fields"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bone up v study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" Synonym(s): cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bonobo n small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species Synonym(s): pygmy chimpanzee, bonobo, Pan paniscus
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bumf n reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring Synonym(s): bumf, bumph
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bump n a lump on the body caused by a blow something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" Synonym(s): bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle" Synonym(s): blow, bump v knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" Synonym(s): bump, knock come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" Synonym(s): find, happen, chance, bump, encounter dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind" assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" Synonym(s): demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs Antonym(s): advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" Synonym(s): dislodge, bump
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bumph n reading materials (documents, written information) that you must read and deal with but that you think are extremely boring Synonym(s): bumf, bumph
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bumpy adj causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements; "a rough ride" Synonym(s): rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy Antonym(s): smooth covered with or full of bumps; "a bumpy country road"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bamboo \Bam*boo"\, v. t.       To flog with the bamboo.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bamboo \Bam*boo"\, n. [Malay bambu, mambu.] (Bot.)       A plant of the family of grasses, and genus {Bambusa},       growing in tropical countries.          Note: The most useful species is {Bambusa arundinacea}, which                has a woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, and                grows to the height of forty feet and upward. The                flowers grow in large panicles, from the joints of the                stalk, placed three in a parcel, close to their                receptacles. Old stalks grow to five or six inches in                diameter, and are so hard and durable as to be used for                building, and for all sorts of furniture, for water                pipes, and for poles to support palanquins. The smaller                stalks are used for walking sticks, flutes, etc.
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bonify \Bon"i*fy\, v. t. [L. bonus good + -fy: cf. F. bonifier.]       To convert into, or make, good.                   To bonify evils, or tincture them with good.                                                                               --Cudworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bump \Bump\, v. i.       To come in violent contact with something; to thump.       [bd]Bumping and jumping.[b8] --Southey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bump \Bump\, n. [From {Bump} to strike, to thump.]       1. A thump; a heavy blow.          2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a             protuberance.                         It had upon its brow A bump as big as a young                      cockerel's stone.                              --Shak.          3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are             associated with distinct faculties or affections of the             mind; as, the bump of [bd]veneration;[b8] the bump of             [bd]acquisitiveness.[b8] [Colloq.]          4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with             the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bump \Bump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bumping}.] [Cf. W. pwmp round mass, pwmpiaw to thump, bang,       and E. bum, v. i., boom to roar.]       To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to       thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bump \Bump\, v. i. [See {Boom} to roar.]       To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to       boom.                   As a bittern bumps within a reed.            --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bump \Bump\, n.       The noise made by the bittern.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bombay, NY       Zip code(s): 12914
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bonifay, FL (city, FIPS 7450)       Location: 30.78482 N, 85.68386 W       Population (1990): 2612 (1184 housing units)       Area: 8.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 32425
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bamf /bamf/   1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj.    Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of    the hearer's vicinity.   Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. {MUD})    electronic {fora} when a character wishes to make a dramatic    entrance or exit.   2. The sound of magical transformation, used in    virtual reality {fora} like MUDs. 3. In MUD circles, "bamf" is also    used to refer to the act by which a MUD server sends a special    notification to the MUD client to switch its connection to another    server ("I'll set up the old site to just bamf people over to our    new location.").   4. Used by MUDders on occasion in a more general    sense related to sense 3, to refer to directing someone to another    location or resource ("A user was asking about some technobabble so    I bamfed them to `http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/'".)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
BNF /B-N-F/ n.   1. [techspeak] Acronym for `Backus Normal Form'    (often incorrectly expanded as `Backus-Naur Form'), a metasyntactic    notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages,    command sets, and the like.   Widely used for language descriptions    but seldom documented anywhere, so that it must usually be learned    by osmosis from other hackers.   Consider this BNF for a U.S. postal    address:          ::=          ::= | "."          ::= []                            |          ::= []          ::= ","       This translates into English as: "A postal-address consists of a    name-part, followed by a street-address part, followed by a zip-code    part.   A personal-part consists of either a first name or an initial    followed by a dot.   A name-part consists of either: a personal-part    followed by a last name followed by an optional `jr-part' (Jr., Sr.,    or dynastic number) and end-of-line, or a personal part followed by    a name part (this rule illustrates the use of recursion in BNFs,    covering the case of people who use multiple first and middle names    and/or initials).   A street address consists of an optional    apartment specifier, followed by a street number, followed by a    street name.   A zip-part consists of a town-name, followed by a    comma, followed by a state code, followed by a ZIP-code followed by    an end-of-line."   Note that many things (such as the format of a    personal-part, apartment specifier, or ZIP-code) are left    unspecified.   These are presumed to be obvious from context or    detailed somewhere nearby.   See also {parse}.   2. Any of a number of    variants and extensions of BNF proper, possibly containing some or    all of the {regexp} wildcards such as `*' or `+'.   In fact the    example above isn't the pure form invented for the Algol-60 report;    it uses `[]', which was introduced a few years later in IBM's PL/I    definition but is now universally recognized.   3. In    {{science-fiction fandom}}, a `Big-Name Fan' (someone famous or    notorious).   Years ago a fan started handing out black-on-green BNF    buttons at SF conventions; this confused the hacker contingent    terribly.
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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bump vt.   Synonym for increment.   Has the same meaning as C's    ++ operator.   Used esp. of counter variables, pointers, and index    dummies in `for', `while', and `do-while' loops.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bamf          /bamf/ 1. [Old X-Men comics] Notional sound made by a person       or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity.       Often used in {virtual reality} (especially {MUD}) electronic       {fora} when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or       exit.          2. The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual       reality {fora}.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BMF          {Bird-Meertens Formalism}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BMP          {Basic Multilingual Plane}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bmp          {Microsoft Windows} {bitmap} format.       Bmp files may use {run-length encoding}.          This is the only graphics format where {compression} actually       enlarges the file.   The format is widely used nonetheless.          [Format?]          (1998-03-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BMP          {Basic Multilingual Plane}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bmp          {Microsoft Windows} {bitmap} format.       Bmp files may use {run-length encoding}.          This is the only graphics format where {compression} actually       enlarges the file.   The format is widely used nonetheless.          [Format?]          (1998-03-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BMWF          The Austrian, German and Swiss(?) Ministries of       Science.          [Expansion?]          (1998-12-09)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
BNF          {Backus-Naur Form}.   Originally Backus Normal Form.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Boehm B.          Proposed the COCOMO technique for evaluating the cost of a       software project.
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)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bump          Increment.   E.g. {C}'s {++} operator.   It is used especially of       counter variables, pointers and index dummies in "for",       "while", and "do-while" loops.          (1994-11-29)