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"BOMBS" is a plural of: bomb. |
Date "BOMBS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geological | Tephra is the general term now used by volcanologists for airborne volcanic ejecta of any size. Historically, however, various terms have been used to describe ejecta of different sizes. ... Fragments larger than about 2.5 inches are called blocks if they were ejected in a solid state and volcanic bombs if ejected in semi-solid, or plastic, condition. ... Volcanic bombs undergo widely varying degrees of aerodynamic shaping, depending on their fluidity, during the flight through the atmosphere. Based on their shapes after they hit the ground, bombs are variously described, in graphic terms, as "spindle or fusiform,", "ribbon", "bread-crust", or "cow-dung". (Tilling, Heliker, and Wright, 1987)* See: Tephra. (references) |
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Screenplays | I mean, I've dropped bombs on Baghdad, but never face to face (Broken Arrow ; writing credit: Graham Yost) Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Suddenly we sign a treaty that says in two months they're to dismantle their bombs, we're to dismantle ours, and we all ride to a peaceful glory (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) I enjoy planting bombs in people's cars (Johnny Dangerously; writing credit: Harry Colomby; Jeff Harris) And who supplied the Serb cluster bombs, the Croatian tanks, the Muslim artillery shells that killed our sons and daughters (The Peacemaker; writing credit: Leslie Cockburn; Andrew Cockburn) | |
Lyrics | To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) Drop your bombs between the minarets (Rock the Casbah; performing artist: The Clash) And their bombs and their guns (Zombie; performing artist: The Cranberries) With their tanks and their bombs (Zombie; performing artist: The Cranberries) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Butterfly Bombs (1943) Bombs Over Burma (1943) Bombs! (1916) Bombs and Banknotes (1916) The Noise of Bombs (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 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. |
 | Mark-82 500-pound iron bombs. |  | Swaps out expired FMU-139 A/B fuses from Mark-82 bombs. |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital, Jouy-le Chatel, France. : Contagious ward which was untouched by the German bombs. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Medicine - Military - Equipment : Protection against gas bombs - German. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Mark 117, 500-pound and 750-pound bombs lined up on the carrier's flight deck, awaiting loading on aircraft for strikes on North Vietnam. Photographed in the South China Sea by JOC Robert S. Moeser and PH1 Jean C. Cote during February and March 1965. Credit: NAVY. |  | Scene on the southeastern part of Ford Island, looking northeasterly, with USS California (BB-44) in right center, listing to port after being hit by Japanese aerial torpedoes and bombs. Credit: NAVY. |
 | In fighting incendiary bombs, the jet is more effective than the spray. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | There will be no bombs at the conference table. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Bomb; bombs; blast; blasting; explode; exploding; explosion. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs loaded or unloaded, stocks of explosives or of material for their manufacture). (reference) |
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Civil Liberties | India | Police allege that the protesters turned violent, throwing bombs and bottles filled with acid at police. (references) |
Nicaragua | Police fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at the demonstrators, who retaliated with stones and crude pipe bombs. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Bombs also were thrown at buses carrying Awami League activists to the National Parade Grounds where they had scheduled a rally. (references) | |
Economic History | Uzbekistan | On February 16, 1999 a series of car bombs targeted primarily at government buildings in Tashkent killed 16 people. (references) |
Dominican Rep | In 1999, two small bombs were placed near facilities belonging to a U.S.-owned electricity distribution company, one of which caused minor property damage. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) detonated large bombs in Colombo's financial district in January 1996 and again in October 1997, causing extensive damage. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | On April 11, two bombs exploded in an alley near a BNP rally in Dhaka. (references) |
United Kingdom | In July and August two car bombs were detonated in the west London Ealing neighborhood. (references) | |
Brazil | Sao Paulo police claimed to have discovered evidence that da Silva planted these bombs. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | In April and July, small bombs were thrown into a synagogue in Transnistria, causing minor damage. (references) |
Hungary | According to Human Rights Watch, on June 17, in Hencida village, gasoline bombs were thrown at the house of the leader of the Roma Minority self-government; two of his daughters suffered burns from the firebombs. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | On October 6 in Mangayath, 1 person reportedly was killed and 14 others were injured when government aircraft dropped 15 bombs on the village. (references) |
Trade | Peru | The only remaining products requiring licenses are firearms, munitions and explosives imported by private persons, chemical precursors (applicable to cocaine production) and ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs. (references) |
Travel | Sri Lanka | Small bombs have frequently been placed against infrastructure targets such as telephone switchgear or electrical power transformers. (references) |
Sri Lanka | In early March 2000, as many as 8 terrorists detonated bombs on a main Colombo highway leading to the parliament killing 25 and wounding dozens. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bangladesh | Fighting often is over the control of rackets or extortion payoffs and typically involves knives, guns, and homemade bombs. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dan Rather | So while the old leaders with power and the young men with guns and bombs created this war, it is the people on both sides who must find a way to live with it. |
Mattie Stepanek | You pray and you talk to them. Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink. |
Sean Penn | Well, they brought it on themselves. What they brought on themselves, it turns out, is a heightened support of their leader on the basis of it was American bombs that dropped and maintained that devastation through sanctions. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Thousands of dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning. |
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| "BOMBS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.25% of the time. "BOMBS" is used about 1,086 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 (plural) | 98.25% | 1,067 | 7,034 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.56% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,086 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BOMBS": drop bombs ♦ flatten with bombs ♦ stick of bombs. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BOMBS": ground-bombs, h-bombs, time-bombs. | |
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| Language | Translations for "BOMBS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | lancer des bombes (drop bombs), hangar (atomic bombs), chapelet de bombes (stick of bombs). (various references) | |
German | Bomben. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megbombáz (to plaster with bombs), lebombáz (to plaster with bombs). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ombsbay.(various references) | |
Russian | сбросить бомбы (deliver the bombs), обезвреживание бомб (disposal of bombs), бомбы обычного типа (conventional bombs). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BOMBS": bombshell, bombshells, bombsight, bombsights. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BOMBS": divebombs, firebombs, letterbombs, mailbombs, superbombs. (additional references) | |
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"BOMBS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bambesi, Bembe, Bobbs, Bomba, bombo, Bombus, bomby, Bomm, boms, botbs, bumfs, i, Mbombo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BOMBS" (pronounced bÄ"mz) |
| 4 | b Ä" m z | balms. |
| 3 | -Ä" m z | calms, moms, palms, pogroms, proms, qualms, roms, Toms. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-m-o-s" | |
-1 letter: bobs, bomb, mobs. | |
-2 letters: bob, bos, mob, mos, oms, sob, som. | |
-3 letters: bo, mo, om, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bimbos, bombes. | |
+2 letters: bamboos, bimboes, bombast, bombers, mobbers, mobbish. | |
+3 letters: bambinos, bombards, bombasts, bombesin, bombings, bombyxes, bumboats, cabombas, jibbooms, lobbyism, nabobism, snobbism. | |
+4 letters: bombastic, bombesins, bombloads, bombshell, bombsight, bombycids, boomboxes, buncombes, divebombs, firebombs, lobbyisms, mailbombs, nabobisms, snobbisms, superbomb. | |
+5 letters: bamboozles, beachcombs, bombardons, bombazines, bombinates, bombshells, bombsights, bourbonism, broomballs, embossable, subproblem, superbombs. | |
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