(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".
Vessel
Definition:
(n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
(n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
(n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
(n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
(n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
(v. t.) To put into a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(6) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(7) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) The observed pulmonary hypertension is probably the result of the left heart insufficiency and is being discussed with regard of the histopathological alterations in the heart muscle and the pulmonary vessels.
(10) DNA synthesis by endothelium subsequently increased and within 48 hr new blood vessel formation was detected.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(13) The relationship between pressure at the functional site of origin of intracranial collateral channels (Pstem) and systemic pressure allows an estimation of the size of vascular channels from which collateral vessels originate.
(14) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
(15) It is suggested that intra-endothelial conduction of electrical signals from capillaries to the resistance vessels may be involved in the local regulation of blood flow in the intact heart.
(16) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
(17) We have characterized the effects of adenosine, the A1-receptor agonist N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)-adenosine (PIA) and the A2-receptor agonist 5'-(N-ethyl)-carboxamido-adenosine (NECA), in isolated human pulmonary vessels.
(18) It appears that the viscosity of the arterial wall must be the major source of attenuation in the larger arteries, while the viscosity of the blood plays a significant role only in the smaller vessels.
(19) In the choroid, VIP-immunoreactive fibers were seen mainly in close association with the choroidal blood vessels.
(20) Resistance vessels play a predominant role in limiting systemic arterial pressure in the orthostatic position.