6 definitions found
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.
``I noticed volcanic bombs.'' --Darwin.
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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bomb
n 1: an explosive device fused to denote under specific
conditions
2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn:
{bomb calorimeter}]
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" [syn: {turkey},
{dud}]
v 1: attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden"
2: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed
nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: {fail}, {flunk},
{flush it}] [ant: {pass}]
3: throw bombs at [syn: {bombard}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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
meditation}, 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 (13 Mar 01) [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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