Bomb vs Body - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bomb and body

is that bomb is (informal) the atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack often used with “the” while body is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children.

bomb

English

(wikipedia bomb)

Noun

(en noun)

An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.

* 2008 , Sidney Gelb, Foreign Service Agent , page 629,

The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb .

# (label) The atomic bomb.

# (label) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

#*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-25, author= Martin Lukacs

, volume=190, issue=20, page=13, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Canada becoming launch-pad of a global tar sands and oil shale frenzy , passage=If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb , this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.}}

(label) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.

* 1997 , Eric L. Flom, Chaplin in the Sound Era: An Analysis of the Seven Talkies , page 277,

Projection problems plagued Countess? London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb .

* 2010 , (Tony Curtis), (Peter Golenbock), American Prince: My Autobiography , unnumbered page,

The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa , in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.

* 2011 , Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture , page 11,

The movie was a bomb , but it put the band before an even larger audience.

# A car in poor condition.

#* 2005 August 6, Warm affection for a rust-bucket past , [http://www.smh.com.au/news/words/warm-affection-for-a-rustbucket-past/2005/08/04/1123125839592.html]

Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.

#* 2010 , Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice , page 19,

We?ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb .

#* 2011 , Amarinda Jones, Seducing Celestine , page 49,

After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car

A large amount of money, a fortune.

* 2009 , Matthew Vierling, The Blizzard , page 133,

When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must?ve cost a bomb .”

* 2010 , Liz Young, Fair Game , page 136,

‘You?ve already spent a bomb !’

‘Not on'' it, Sal — ''under it. Presents!’ As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, ‘I hope to God he?s not been spending a bomb on presents, too.’

* 2011 , Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of International Intrigue , page 47,

The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.

* 2011 , Bibe, A Victim , page 38,

He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.

(label) Something highly effective or attractive.

# A success; the bomb.

# A very attractive woman; a bombshell.

# An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.

# A long forward pass.

# (label) A jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs, for maximum splashing.

(label) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.

* 2008 , François Cardarelli, Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference , page 276,

The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb .

(label) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

A pillar of irona great bomb in the chamber beneath.

Usage notes

* The diametrical slang meanings are somewhat distinguishable by the article. For “a success”, the phrase is generally the bomb''. Otherwise ''bomb can mean “a failure”.

Synonyms

* (attractive woman) bombshell * (car) rustbucket * (large amount of money) fortune, packet, pretty penny

Derived terms

* A-bomb * atom bomb * atomic bomb * barrel bomb * bomb squad * car bomb * dirty bomb * E-bomb * F-bomb * gay bomb * H-bomb * hydrogen bomb * neutron bomb * paper bomb * petrol bomb * pipe bomb * sex bomb

Verb

(en verb)

(intransitive) To attack using one or more s; to bombard.

* 2000 , Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research , Volumes 32-33, page 65,

15 May: US jets bombed' air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally ' bombing civilian targets. (AP)

* 2005 , Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present , page 421,

Italy had bombed' cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had ' bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.

* 2007 , David Parker, Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace, 1914-1939 , page 59,

Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.

(slang) To fail dismally.

* 1992 June, Lynn Norment, Arsenio Hall: Claiming the Late-night Crown'', in '' , page 74,

So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed' several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he ' bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.

* 2000 , Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview'', in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, ''Comic Book Artist Collection , page 12,

Carmen: Then it bombed' and it ' bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I?m trying everything I can but it?s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.

* 2008 , Erik Sternberger, The Long and Winding Road , page 62,

She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn?t seem to get her out of his mind.

(informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.

(obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.

(Ben Jonson)

(slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.

* 2009 , Scape Martinez, GRAFF: The Art & Technique of Graffiti (page 124)

It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.

(informal, AU) to add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.

Derived terms

* bomber * bomb out

Adjective

(en adjective)

(slang) Great, awesome.

Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb !

Verb

(head)

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body

English

(wikipedia body)

Noun

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Physical frame.

# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.

I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.

The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

# A corpse.

Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.

#* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 463:

Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]

#* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:

Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body 's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.

#* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}

What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?

Main section.

# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).

The boxer took a blow to the body .

# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.

The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.

# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.

Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.

# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.

# A bodysuit.

# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.

In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

Coherent group.

# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.

I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.

The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.

We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

Material entity.

# Any physical object or material thing.

All bodies are held together by internal forces.

# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.

#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

We have given body to what was just a vague idea.

# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).

The red wine, sadly, lacked body .

# An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.

#* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:

In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]

#* 2012' March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, " World's largest extrusive '''body of sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5

Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.

The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.

(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).

a nonpareil face on an agate body

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Derived terms

* acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)

Verb

To give body or shape to something.

To construct the bodywork of a car.

To embody.

* 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads

I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.

Bomb vs Body - What's the difference?

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