(v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.
(v. i.) To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.
(v. i.) To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.
(v. t.) To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
(v. t.) To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.
(v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
(v. t.) To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(2) You can also blast individual eyeballs from their sockets, or – if you're particularly skilful – make their testicles explode like a pair of microwaved eggs.
(3) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.
(4) Roddy was told he wouldn't live beyond 30 and used to drive everywhere at full pelt while smoking exploding cigarettes.
(5) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Device explodes in New Jersey as robot attempts to disarm He said the chicken store had faced complaints and problems in 2012, when the city council and police ruled that it should close at 10pm.
(7) I remember seeing these exploding glass panels of blood, and thinking, 'Well, he's a relief.'"
(8) If Egypt explodes, the explosion will be much bigger, too.
(9) Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes .
(10) Simmering resentment towards the US presence on Okinawa exploded into anger in 1995 after three servicemen abducted and raped a 12-year-old girl , a crime that prompted lengthy negotiations on reducing the country's military footprint.
(11) Three minutes later the Arena Pernambuco exploded into a riot of noise and colour as Guardado made the game safe, calmly slotting home from six yards after Herrera’s pass had missed out Hernández.
(12) Visiting journalists were briefed by security officers on the latest attacks: five IEDs detonated or exploded in 48 hours; a car bomb discovered and detonated; and "a rash" of grenade attacks.
(13) So while Blackburn might have been surprised when City exploded into life just before the hour to take control with two excellent goals in two minutes, they could have no real complaints.
(14) It exploded in mid-air, sparking speculation it was downed accidentally by Ukranian military on exercises in Crimea.
(15) Such was its challenge that, when it was found in the library of a school run by the Inner London Education Authority in 1986, the fuss exploded and the book was subsequently cited as one of the spurs to the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act of 1988.
(16) If a battery heats up beyond 80C you hit what is called thermal runaway, where the components start to decompose, and that’s when it can explode.” The specific cause of Samsung’s issues with exploding batteries is unknown, the company just cites “ a battery cell issue ”.
(17) After six minutes of reconnaissance, it exploded, briefly.
(18) He was acutely aware that his country would explode without the safety valve of democracy.
(19) Forest ecologists say it is no coincidence the Rim fire exploded through areas which had seen few or no blazes in almost a century – an unnatural absence since California's mountain flora evolved to burn .
(20) He said he had made the errors of judgment because his mind was on trying to save his marriage from "exploding".
Nebula
Definition:
(n.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.
(n.) A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.
(n.) A cloudy appearance in the urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
(2) However, exposure to infection may result in temporary conjunctival inflammation and more persistant stromal nebulae.
(3) It won the prestigious Nebula and Hugo awards, and was added to the official reading list of the US marines .
(4) These nebulae do not flatten when contact lens wear is discontinued.
(5) Cercariae remaining in the cornea became the centres of stromal nebulae 0.1-0.2 mm across which remained visible for at least 3 months.
(6) "In one billion years, the sun will begin its red giant stage, increasing terrestrial temperatures above 1,000 degrees, boiling off our atmosphere, eventually forming a planetary nebula, making Earth inhospitable to life," he wrote.
(7) But the community morphed into a nebula for antisocial crime, poverty and discontent; blighted by asbestos, death, joblessness and cyclical deprivation.
(8) We describe a simple technique of superficial keratectomy to remove proud nebulae in which the resulting defect healed quickly under a therapeutic hydrogel lens.
(9) To arrange an interview some years back took a written letter to his apartment in Edinburgh's New Town followed by a wait of several months, after which a reply arrived – handwritten in ink – in an envelope sporting a stamp of the Crab Nebula.
(10) That includes the Blue Marble, a photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew as they travelled towards the moon in 1972, the “first selfie in space”, taken by Buzz Aldrin during a spacewalk in 1966, and the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, most recently in 2014.
(11) These giant white ears are cocked to interstellar whispers: the formation of stars, nebulae and supernovae.
(12) Known as the Helix nebula, the fading star belongs to a class of celestial objects named "planetary nebulae" in the 18th century, after their likeness to gas giants, such as Jupiter.
(13) Best known for her children's fantasy series the Earthsea quartet, and for the science fiction title The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin is the author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, 12 books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and the recipient of literary awards including the Hugo, Nebula and National Book award.
(14) For years now, the wallpaper on my computer has been a picture from one of Nasa's many troves of stunning photos, sometimes a distant nebula or galaxy or close-up of a nearby planet or Earth.
(15) "The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever."
(16) Contact lens intolerance in keratoconus may be due to the formation of a proud nebula at or near the apex of the cone that gives rise to contact lens related abrasions.
(17) The role and relative contributions of different forms of energy to the synthesis of amino acids and other organic compounds on the primitive earth, in the parent bodies or carbonaceous chondrites, and in the solar nebula are examined.
(18) Among them are the first sketches of nebulae by Sir John Herschel, who visited South Africa with a telescope in the 1830s, and Newton's death mask.