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Definition: TNT |
TNTNoun1. Explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "TNT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TNT | Danish | Trinitrotoluen | Nuclear Energy & Physics, Military & Defense |
TNT | English | Theater Network Television | N/A |
TNT | French | Tolite | Nuclear Energy & Physics, Military & Defense |
TNT | German | Trinitrotoluol | Nuclear Energy & Physics, Military & Defense |
TNT | Portuguese | Trinitrotolueno | Chemistry |
TNT | Spanish | Trinitro 2,4,6 tolueno | Nuclear Energy & Physics, Military & Defense |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "TNT."
Synonym: TNTSynonym: trinitrotoluene (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | High explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TNT |
| English words defined with "TNT": kiloton ♦ megaton, megaton bomb. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TNT": ACID SUPERVISOR, ammonal ♦ blue lip ♦ Composition B ♦ denitrator operator ♦ Equivalent Metatonnage ♦ kt ♦ Megaton equivalent, Mte ♦ nitric-acid-concentrator operator ♦ POWDER WORKER, TNT ♦ RECOVERY OPERATOR ♦ slurry blasting agents, STRONG-NITRIC OPERATOR ♦ tc operator, TNT-LINE SUPERVISOR, triton value ♦ WASH-TANK TENDER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TNT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (trinitrotoluol). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I'll put TNT in your behind. ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Movie/TV Titles | TNT Extra: A Very Special Conversation with Elizabeth Taylor (1993) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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 | Planting a hydrophone anchor with the cable attached On the GUIDE Hydrophone would pick up sound from RAR TNT explosion. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Radio Acoustic Ranging - igniting the bomb and timing fuse TNT bombs were sound source for RAR RAR work on OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Timing the fuse on a quart bomb during RAR operations TNT bombs were sound source for RAR RAR work on OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Quart bombs exploding during RAR operations TNT bombs were sound source for RAR RAR work on OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Production. Shell loading. Molten TNT is poured into 75 mm. shells at a large Midwest loading plant. Shells from 20 mm. to 155 mm. are loaded at this plant in addition to special shells required by the British. Ravenna ordnance plant. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The U.S. firm's business in Europe is a further development of their U.S. freight forwarding activities which, in the United States, relies on final delivery by UPS, FedEx or TNT courier service. (references) | |
Economic History | Chile | U.S. offerings include CNN International, HBO Ole, MTV, TNT, Worldnet, ESPN, Cartoon Network and MSTV. (references) |
Moldova | Mail and courier services are available in Moldova through DHL, UPS, TNT, FedEx, Airborne Express and other delivery service providers. (references) | |
Syria | Please note that mail in Syria is not always reliable and regular airmail takes a minimum of 2 weeks to arrive from the U.S. Several parcel and mail delivery companies, including DHL, Skypak, Federal Express, UPS, and TNT provide service to Syria. (references) | |
Travel | Botswana | International Courier Service: DHL and Federal Express, TNT and MDS provide services in Gaborone, Francistown and other cities. (references) |
Philippines | Courier services such as DHL, TNT Skypack, Federal Express, and UPS are best to transmit important documents to and from the Philippines. (references) | |
Pakistan | Airmail letters take about six to eight days to reach Europe and about eight to ten days to reach the U.S. Delivery of private courier packages (i.e. DHL, Federal Express, TNT, UPS) is delayed due to customs clearance. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TNT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "TNT" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (common) | 9.09% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "TNT": tnt equivalent. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TNT": tnt-ammonium, tnt-sponsored. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tnt | 2,888 | tnt tracking | 32 |
firework tnt | 383 | nvidia riva tnt driver | 31 |
tnt tv | 245 | tnt shipping | 29 |
caesar tnt | 194 | amusement tnt | 29 |
network tnt | 187 | tnt tractor.com | 28 |
tnt vacation | 173 | tnt sports | 25 |
tnt television | 157 | lyrics tnt | 23 |
charmed tnt | 95 | driver tnt | 23 |
tnt channel | 83 | nvidia tnt | 22 |
tnt logistics | 80 | caesar julius tnt | 22 |
riva tnt | 71 | er tnt | 22 |
tnt magazine | 69 | mirror tnt | 21 |
tnt travel | 62 | audio tnt | 20 |
express tnt | 58 | fireworks.com tnt | 20 |
tnt courier | 58 | tnt auction | 20 |
ac dc tnt | 55 | b.v holding tnt | 19 |
man tnt | 51 | cable tnt | 19 |
nvidia riva tnt | 43 | nvidia tnt driver | 19 |
riva tnt driver | 35 | superstation tnt | 19 |
tnt movie | 32 | caesar movie tnt | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "TNT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | trotyyli (trinitrotoluene). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | trotil egyenérték (tnt equivalent). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | トリコモナス膣炎 (trick, trick play, trick work, trickster, tricky, tricolore, trinitrotoluen, Trinity, trip, trip meter, Tripper, tripping, vaginal trichomoniasis). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トリニトロトルエン (trinitrotoluen). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | tntay трот. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: nett, tent, tint. | |
+2 letters: natty, netts, netty, nitty, nutty, stint, stunt, taint, tanto, taunt, tenet, tenth, tents, tenty, tinct, tints, titan. | |
+3 letters: anatto, attain, attend, attent, attorn, attune, batten, bitten, button, cotton, detent, entity, extant, extent, fatten, gittin, gnatty, gotten, intact, intent, intort, intuit, jetton, kitten, knotty, latent, latten, lattin, litten, mattin, mitten, mutant, mutton, natant, natter, netted, netter, nettle, nettly, nitwit, notate, nutant, nutate, nutlet, nutted, nutter, octant, patent, patten, potent, rattan, ratten, ratton, retint, rotten, sitten, snotty, stints, stotin, strunt, stunts, taints, talent, tanist, tantra, tartan, taunts, tauten, telnet, tenant, tenets, tented, tenter, tenths, tentie, tenuti, tenuto, teston, tetany, tincts, tinted, tinter, titans, titian, titman, titmen, tonlet, torten, toting, triton, truant, twenty, tyrant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4E 54 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544854 |
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