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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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