" bomb "

[Noun]  | "bomb" | \ ˈbäm \

1: an explosive device fused to detonate under specified conditions

2: atomic bomb; also : nuclear weapons in general —usually used with the

3: a vessel for compressed gases: such as

Origin: 1662 ;

 Borrowed from Spanish or Italian bomba or French bombe, all probably in part from an onomatopoeic base bomb- (as in Greek bómbos "booming, humming," Old Norse bumba "drum," Lithuanian bambėti "to mutter, mumble," Albanian bumbullin "it is thundering"), in part back-formation from Medieval Latin bombardus or Middle French bombarde {see: |bombard:1|bombard:1};

  * Note : The origin and transmission of bomba, bombe, etc., in the sense "explosive device, projectile, etc.," among European languages is not certain. Bomba is attested earliest in Spanish, appearing several times in the second half of the 16th century (canto 18 of La Araucana of Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, the Descripción general de África of Luis del Mármol, the Historia de las cosas … del Gran Reyno de la China of Juan González de Mendoza). Mendoza's book (1585) is the source of an early and aberrant instance of bomb in English: his bombas de fuego is rendered as "bomes of fire" in Robert Parke's translation (The Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome of China, London, 1588, p. 65). Bomba is recorded as Italian in Antoine Oudin's Italian-French dictionary (Recherches italiennes et françoises, Paris, 1640), where it is glossed "bombe, ou balon de feu" ("bomb, or ball of fire"), though it is not recorded in an Italian text until 1686 (Paolo Segneri, Il cristiano instruito, Florence, p. 327); Oudin's gloss also apparently constitutes the first record in French. Significantly earlier than any of these is Latin bombus, which occurs twice in the Commentarii, an account of the exploits of the condottiere Jacopo Piccinino in 1452-53 by the Neapolitan humanist Giannantonio de' Pandone, "il Porcellio" (ca. 1405-85); Pandone's bombus appears to be some sort of exploding projectile ("Hic Tibertus Dux bombi fulmine in ulna sauciatur" - "Here Tibertus [the condottiere Tiberto Brandolini] was wounded in the forearm by the flash of a bombus"); the 18th-century lexicographer Du Cange, in Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis, glosses bombus in this passage, alluding to French bombe, as pila incendiaria, "fireball." Spanish bomba in the sense "pump," attested from the early 16th century, is probably an independent formation; cf. {pump:1|pump:1}.;

[Noun]  | "bomb cyclone" 

1: a powerful, rapidly intensifying storm associated with a sudden and significant drop in atmospheric pressure

Origin: 1987 ;

[Noun]  | "bomb scare" 

1: a situation in which people are afraid because someone says that a bomb is going to explode

[Noun]  | "bomb site" 

1: a place where a bomb has exploded

[Noun]  | "bomb squad" 

1: a group of people who have the job of preventing bombs from causing damage or injury

[Noun]  | "bomb threat" 

1: a message saying that a bomb is located in a particular place

[Noun]  | "A-bomb" | \ ˈā-ˌbäm \

1: atomic bomb

Origin: 1945 ;

 By abbreviation;

[Noun]  | "atomic bomb" 

1: a bomb whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of energy resulting from the splitting of nuclei of a heavy chemical element (such as plutonium or uranium) by neutrons in a very rapid chain reaction —called also atom bomb

2: a nuclear weapon (such as a hydrogen bomb)

Origin: 1914 ;

[Noun]  | "buzz bomb" 

1: an unguided jet-propelled missile used by the Germans against England in World War II

Origin: 1942 ;

[Verb]  | "bomb" 

1: to attack with or as if with bombs : bombard

2: to defeat decisively

3: to score many runs against (a pitcher)

Origin: 1688 ;

 Derivative of {see: |bomb:1|bomb:1};

[Noun]  | "bomb" 

[Noun]  | "time bomb" 

[Verb]  | "bomb"