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EXPLODER

Definitions: EXPLODER

EXPLODER

Noun

1. One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.

2. One who or that which explodes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: EXPLODER

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Exploder n. Used within Microsoft to refer to the Windows Explorer, the interface component of Windows 95 and WinNT 4. Our spies report that most of the heavy guns at MS came from a Unix background and use command line utilities; even they are scornful of the over-gingerbreaded WIMP environments that they have been called upon to create. Source: Jargon File.

Chemical Industry

A device for firing or detonating an explosive charge. . Source: European Union. (references)

Military & Defense

A device designed to generate an electric current in a firing circuit after deliberate action by the user in order to initiate an explosive charge or charges. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Electric shot-firing apparatus specially designed to provide a source of electric energy of sufficient power to fire electric detonators. Source: European Union. (references)
 A. A cap or fulminating cartridge, placed in a charge of gunpowder or other explosive, and exploded by electricity or by a fuse. Also called detonator. Syn:battery b. Electric shot-firing apparatus specially designed to provide a source of electric energy of sufficient power to fire electric detonators. Each type of exploder is designed to fire a specific number of shots in series, and exploders are rated accordingly; e.g., single-shot exploders, 30-shot exploders, and 100-shot exploders. See also:Beethoven exploder Syn:blasting unit c. A chemical employed for the instantaneous explosion of powde e.g., single-shot exploders, 30-shot exploders, and 100-shot exploders. See also:Beethoven exploder Syn:blasting unit c. A chemical employed for the instantaneous explosion of powde. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: EXPLODER

English words defined with "EXPLODER": Explodent. (references)
Specialty definitions using "EXPLODER": Beethoven exploder, blasting machineInternet ExploderLittle Demon exploderM.E. 6 exploder, mail exploderNominal Semidestructorone-shot exploderplay by electronic mailseries circuit firing, shot-firing cable, shot-firing circuit, single-shot exploders. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EXPLODER

DomainTitle

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: EXPLODER

Expressions using "EXPLODER": internet Exploder mail exploder. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EXPLODER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  exploder

25

  exploder internet

7

  audioslave exploder lyrics

3

  exploder zip

3

  cheat exploder

2

  exploder msn

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EXPLODER

Language Translations for "EXPLODER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

plasës (explosive). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المفجر. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

взривател, детонатор (fulminator, fuse, fusee, fuze, torpedo). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

爆炸装置. (various references)

   

Danish

  

eltaending (blasting machine), elektrisk udløseranordning, taendapparat (blasting machine). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schiettoestel (blasting machine), schietmachine (blasting machine), ontstekingstoestel (blasting machine), afvuurinrichting (blasting machine). (various references)

   

French

  

exploseur, négligé, détonateur, auteur de l'explosion. (various references)

   

German

  

Zuendmaschine (blasting machine), Zuendapparat (blasting machine), Zünder (detonator, discharge starter, fuse, fuze, fuzeUS, igniter, sparker, starter, trigger), Sprengmittel (blasting agent, explosive), Sprengapparat (blasting machine, sprinkler). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μηχανή πυροδότησης (blasting machine), εκρηκτήρας (blasting machine), εκρηγνύων, εκρηγνυόμενοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

robbantózsinór, robbantótöltény, robbantógyutacs, robbantógyújtó, robbantóanyag, elektromos robbantó szerkezet. (various references)

   

Italian

  

esploditore (blasting machine), detonatore (detonating agent, detonator, fuse, initiator). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

폭발장치. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exploderay

   

Portuguese

  

dispositivo disparador (blasting machine), disparador (automatic thermoelectric switch, blasting machine, starter, trigger), detonador (detonating fuse, detonator, fuse), desmascarar (find, smoke out, uncloak, unmask), aparelho disparador (blasting machine). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

взрыватель (detonating fuse, fuse, fuze). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

explosor (blasting machine), explosionador (blasting machine), reventador, disparador (blasting machine, discharger, release, trigger, tripper). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

підривник (fireman), детонатор (detonator, fuse, fuze). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EXPLODER

Derivations

Words beginning with "EXPLODER": exploders. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EXPLODER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exboxer, Exploer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EXPLODER"

Words rhyming with "EXPLODER" (pronounced 'Ex*plod"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXPLODER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: explored.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-o-p-r-x"

-1 letter: deplore, explode, explore.

-2 letters: eloped, eloper, pedler, plexor, polder, repled.

-3 letters: doper, elder, elope, epode, erode, expel, leper, loped, loper, loxed, older, pedro, poled, poler, pored, poxed, preed, prole, redox, repel, roped.

-4 letters: deep, deer, dele, dere, doer, dole, dope, dore, dorp, dree, drop, expo, leer, lode, lope, lord, lore, oped, orle, peed, peel.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-o-p-r-x"
 

+1 letter: exploders.

 

+2 letters: reexplored, unexplored.

 

+4 letters: extrapolated, heteroduplex.

 

+5 letters: overexplained, overexploited.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EXPLODER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 58 50 4C 4F 44 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -..-    .--.    .-..    ---    -..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01011000 01010000 01001100 01001111 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#80 &#76 &#79 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0050 004C 004F 0044 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3958504649383952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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