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Definition: Burst |
BurstAdjective1. Suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal pressure; "a burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a ruptured appendix"; (`busted' is an informal term for `burst' as in "a busted balloon"). Noun1. The act of exploding or bursting something; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft". 2. Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise". 3. A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning". 4. A sudden violent happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning". Verb1. Break open or apart suddenly; "The bubble burst". 2. Force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger". 3. Burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle exploded". 4. Move suddenly, energetically, or violently; "He burst out of the house into the cool night". 5. Be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers". 6. Emerge suddenly; "The sun burst into view". 7. Cause to burst; "The ice broke the pipe". 8. Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully; "The dam burst". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "burst" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Burst \Burst\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Burst; Bursting. The past participle bursten is obsolete.]. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. A single pulse of radio energy; specifically such a pulse at radar frequencies. 2. = solar radio burst.3. = cosmic ray burst. (references) |
Computing | In data transmission, a sequence of signals counted as one unit in accordance with some specific criterion or measure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An interference to, or an interruption of, a digital signal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | In wood, the separation of the fibres in the interior of a piece, due to internal stresses resulting from the use of certain accelerated seasoning or softening processes, e. g. radio-frequency heating. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The maximum uniformly distributed pressure applied at right angles to its surface that a test piece will stand before it breaks under the conditions defined in the standard methods of test. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Burst To inform against an accomplice. Slang variety of "split" (turn king's evidence, impeach). The person who does this splits or breaks up the whole concern. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | An explosive breaking of coal or rock in a mine due to pressure. In coal mines bursts may or may not be accompanied by a copious discharge of methane, carbon dioxide, or coal dust. Also called outburst; bounce; bump.See also:rock burst. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | The sudden appearance for a short period of time of a large number of ion pairs due to one or more particles of high energy incident on the filling gas or the walls. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Sudden and violent rupturing of a substance, object or organ due to excessive stress on or inside it. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A sudden momentary increase of the error rate of a signal A typical value is for example an increase of the error rate from 0 to 1 in 10 for 0 5 ms. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Solar | A transient enhancement of the solar RADIO EMISSION, usually associated with an ACTIVE REGION or FLARE. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Attacked, Burst, Drowned. The incorrect past tense forms attackted, bursted, drownded, are sometimes heard; as, "The cashier was attackted by three of the ruffians," "The cannon bursted and killed the gunners,"" The fishermen were drownded off the bar." Use attacked, burst, drowned. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: BurstSynonyms: busted (adj), ruptured (adj), explosion (n), fit (n), flare-up (n), fusillade (n), outburst (n), salvo (n), volley (n), abound (v), break (v), break open (v), bristle (v), bust (v), collapse (v), erupt (v), explode (v), split (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: implode (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Brittleness | Break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short, burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust. |
Disjunction | Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice. |
Excitability | Passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony. |
Instantaneity | Moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time. |
Violence | Outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent. |
Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open. | |
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Screenplays | My tomato's burst! (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) I burst my pimples at you and call your door-opening request a silly thing; you tiny brained wipers of other peoples' bottoms (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) Her bladder burst. (The Owl and the Pussycat; writing credit: Buck Henry; Bill Manhoff) Don't worry, I'm not going to burst through your chest (K-PAX; writing credit: Charles Leavitt) Instead, they burst out laughing (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters; writing credit: Chieko Schrader; Leonard Schrader) | |
Lyrics | Did you burst out with pride for the red, white and blue (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry (Today; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) A special feeling just burst inside (Gotta Tell You; performing artist: Samantha Mumba) My veins will burst (Your Shadow, My Shelter; performing artist: Surface) Gonna burst into flame (Burning Down The House; performing artist: Talking Heads) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Day the Bubble Burst (1982) | |
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A team of astronomers has announced that a recently detected gamma-ray burst was as bright as ... Credit: NASA. | The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes ... Credit: NASA. | ||
![]() | Pepco's Chalk Point Generating Plant on the Patuxent River. A pipeline carrying oil to this plant burst and spilled 100,000 gallons of oil into Swanson Creek on April 7, 2000. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Figure 33. Meteorological register used with hydrogen weather balloons flown from the PRINCESSE ALICE II on April 5, 1905 from a station north of Corsica. The balloons and register attained a height of 8000 meters before the balloons burst and the instruments were parachuted to the sea for recovery and reading. Readings from two temperature sensors and a pressure sensor were recorded. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
The spires in Hell Hole make an eerie backdrop for a burst of fall autumn gold. Credit: Christine Maxa. | Sun burst above Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. | ||
![]() | View looking aft along the port side, showing barrel of burst 12-inch gun on deck with the gun's rear portion in Turret # 2. Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 25 September 1916. Note holes in superstructure and in the "cage" foremast caused by this accident. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | A Japanese Type 99 shipboard bomber (Allied codename "Val") trails smoke as it dives toward USS Hornet (CV-8), during the morning of 26 October 1942. This plane struck the ship's stack and then her flight deck. A Type 97 shipboard attack plane ("Kate") is flying over Hornet after dropping its torpedo, and another "Val" is off her bow. Note anti-aircraft shell burst between Hornet and the camera, with its fragments striking the water nearby. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | The secession bubble. "It must burst". Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Burst bales of cotton on street in front of stock barn and warehouse. Montgomery, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Purple Burst" by Gamaiel Zavala Commentary: "A beautiful close up of a purple burst flower." | "Sun burst" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Sun burst." |
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| Short burst of a police whistle. | |
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George Farquhar | Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst. |
Gita 11 | If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. |
Jonathan Swift | Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. (reference) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Once excited, he burst forth a sort of gaiety characterised his enthusiasm, and he was at once laughing and lyric |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A burst of laughter covered his words |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | There was the squawk of an outraged hen, a burst of red feathers, and the hen ran off, flapping stubby wings for speed |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | After the latter, the animal was ready to burst, and made so violent a discharge, as was very offensive to me and my companions |
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Health | When these blisters burst, they are extremely painful. (references) | |
If untreated, an inflamed appendix can burst, causing infection and even death. (references) | ||
The killer binds to its target, aims its weapons, and delivers a burst of lethal chemicals. (references) | ||
Economic History | Afghanistan | In February 1979, U.S. Ambassador Adolph "Spike" Dubs was murdered in Kabul after Afghan security forces burst in on his kidnapers. (references) |
Taiwan | However, the burst of the dot.com bubble in late 2000 and the subsequent drastic economic slowdown in the United States in early 2001 dampened Taiwan's overseas sales. (references) | |
Japan | When the "bubble" burst in 1991 and the economy worsened, businesses began to call for deregulation of the economy in order to stimulate growth and to respond to foreign competition. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Gambia | During the year, at Sankung-Sillah soap factory a pipe carrying hot chemicals burst and killed and injured employees. (references) |
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Art Linkletter | Time heals it. And for the first year or two, you burst into tears at times when you run into a reminder of it, and then the Lord kind of heals you. |
Dennis Miller | I think there is something wrong when you hear a cell phone ring in public and thirty people start patting themselves down like they've just burst into flame. |
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George Bush | 1989-1993 | For it's not enough to get an immediate burst. |
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| "Burst" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 33.98% of the time. "Burst" is used about 1,949 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 33.98% | 662 | 9,909 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.73% | 579 | 10,925 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 18.66% | 364 | 14,842 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 12.3% | 240 | 19,318 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.23% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.1% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,949 | N/A |
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Expressions using "burst": a burst of applause ♦ black burst field ♦ bud burst ♦ burst can ♦ burst cartridge ♦ burst disk ♦ burst EDO ♦ burst Extended Data Out DRAM ♦ burst forth ♦ burst in ♦ burst in on ♦ burst into ♦ burst into a blaze ♦ burst into a passion of tears ♦ burst into angry words ♦ burst into blossom ♦ burst into bud ♦ burst into flame ♦ burst into flames ♦ burst into laughter ♦ burst into song ♦ burst into tears ♦ burst mode ♦ burst of activity ♦ burst of anger ♦ burst of applause ♦ burst of applouse ♦ burst of emotions ♦ burst of errors ♦ burst of fire ♦ burst of flame ♦ burst of gunfire ♦ burst of laughter ♦ burst of speed ♦ burst one's bubble ♦ burst one's sides with laughing ♦ burst open ♦ burst out ♦ burst out crying ♦ burst out laughing ♦ burst out sobbing ♦ burst page ♦ burst ruptured ♦ burst slug ♦ burst Static Random Access Memory ♦ burst the bubble ♦ burst through ♦ burst to ♦ burst up ♦ burst upon ♦ burst with ♦ burst with anger ♦ burst with curiosity ♦ burst with envy ♦ burst with grief ♦ burst with joy ♦ burst with laughter ♦ burst with pride ♦ center of burst ♦ cloud burst ♦ cosmic ray burst ♦ dam burst ♦ dummy burst ♦ error burst ♦ gamma burst ♦ glacier burst ♦ have a burst of enthusiasm ♦ height of burst ♦ high altitude burst ♦ make burst ♦ mean point of burst ♦ normal burst ♦ nuclear burst ♦ nuclear surface burst ♦ nuclear underground burst ♦ nuclear underwater burst ♦ optimum height of burst ♦ pipe burst ♦ pipeline Burst Cache ♦ pipelined Burst Cache ♦ ready to burst ♦ ready to burst forth ♦ Respiratory Burst ♦ safe burst height ♦ surface burst ♦ synchronization burst ♦ the bubble burst ♦ the bubble has burst ♦ the truth burst upon him ♦ thermal burst ♦ Tx burst ♦ with burst gall bladder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "burst": burst-mode, burst-pipe, burst-proof, burst-the-barricades. | |
Ending with "burst": about-to-burst, bomb-burst, breakfast-burst, bud-burst, cloud-burst, dam-burst, finally-burst, flame-burst, mid-burst, primed-burst, shell-burst, star-burst, sun-burst, theta-burst. | |
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| 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 |
burst | 112 | burst torrent | 9 |
nike air burst | 70 | burst tester | 8 |
burst error eve | 28 | burst light | 8 |
appendix burst | 27 | burst nike | 7 |
bubble burst | 23 | burst fracture | 7 |
air burst max nike | 21 | air burst max | 7 |
gamma ray burst | 19 | brain burst | 7 |
balloon burst | 16 | appendix burst symptom | 6 |
bittorrent burst | 15 | bit burst torrent | 6 |
burst ring | 14 | burst electronics | 6 |
star burst | 14 | burst of flavor | 5 |
air burst | 13 | burst maze mega space | 5 |
burst creatine | 12 | burst color | 5 |
burst ovarian cyst | 12 | pipeline burst | 5 |
burst sun | 11 | burst drum ear | 5 |
blood burst vessel | 11 | bubble burst game | 5 |
burst micro | 11 | burst cloud | 5 |
blood burst eye in vessel | 9 | burst communication | 5 |
blood burst eye vessel | 9 | burst gamma | 5 |
air burst rocket | 9 | burst resistant | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "burst"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bars (crack, flaw, split). (various references) | |
Albanian | vrull (Ardor, ardour, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, violence, zest, zip), vdes (be dying, croak, decease, depart, die, die away, die down, do in, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), shpërthim (access, blast, blowout, conniption, detonation, effusion, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare up, furor, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, Sally, tornado), shpërthej (blast, blow up, break, break out, detonate, erupt, explode, flame out, flame up, freak, implode, let off, poke out), plasje (backfire, bang, blast, blowout, blowup, cleavage, detonation, plunk, report), pëlcitje (blowup, rattle), pëlcas (blow back, blow up, detonate, discharge, explode, rip), hov (Ardor, ardour, dash, elan, glow, hop, hunch, jerk, run up, spasm), gërricje (fracture, gap, rupture, scrape, scratch, split), flakë (blaze, blazing, flame, shining). (various references) | |
Arabic | فجر (aurora, beginning, blast, blow up, dawn, detonate, dynamite, explode, let flow, morning, set off, shot out, spout, spurt, undermine), حدث بالتفجير, تفطر فرحنا, تفجير (detonation, explosion), تفجر (detonate, explode, fulminate, gush, outburst, spurt, well), سلسلة طلقات نارية, سلسلة طلقات, طفح (brim, brim over, bubble, exanthema, overflow, surplus), الانفجار, إنفتح بقوة, إنفجار (blast, blaze, detonation, explosion, fit, flare, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, puff and blow, report, salvo, shout), إنفجر (blaze, blow out, blow up, break, crack, erupt, rupture, spew forth, split), إندفاع (break, dash, dive, drift, fling, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, lunge, onrush, prod, raciness, rush, scramble, surge, tear), بروز مفاجئ, برز للعيان فجأة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | напън (intensity, spurt, strain, thrust), избухване (belch, detonation, eruption, explosion, flying, outbreak, outburst, puff), появявам се внезапно (break forth, start, turn up), пращя (crackle, crepitate, spit), преизпълнен съм, преливам (brim over, fade, flow, infuse, melt, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, run over, simmer over, slop over, transfuse, well over), пръсвам, пръсване, изблик (access, accession, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, exuberance, flare, flash, flood, flush, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outflow, passion, riot, rush, spasm, spate, spirt, spurt, surge, wave), бликвам (break forth, break out, flush, spirt, spring, spurt, stream), сцепване, нахлувам (break in, burst in, congest, encroach, invade, irrupt, surge), ненадейно появяване, взрив (blast, detonation, explosion, outburst, puff, report), втурвам се в (rush into), разпуквам, разцепвам (cut open, fork, gash, rend, rift, split, split off), спуквам (crack, rupture), пукване (break, crack). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陣 (disposition of troops, short period, spate, spell, wave), 爆裂 (crack), 爆炸 (blowup, Detonation, Explode, Exploded, Exploding, Explosion), 破裂 (fracture), 決口 (be breached). (various references) | |
Czech | bouře (riot, storm, tempest, thunderstorm), záchvat (attack, bout, conniption, dose, fit, gust, onrush, outbreak, seizure, spasm), vpadnout (raid), výbuch (blast, blaze, detonation, eruption, explosion, gush, gust, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, salvo), spurt (spurt), roztrhnout se, rozevřít se, prasknout (crack, crash, go, go phut), prasklina (crack, cranny, split), explodovat (detonate, explode, go off), dávka (batch, dosage, dose, measure, potion, ration, tax). (various references) | |
Danish | briste (split). (various references) | |
Dutch | scheuren (rip, split, tear), barsten (split), scheur (crack, tear). (various references) | |
Esperanto | krevo (crack), krevi, krevaĵo (crack, flaw), fendiĝi (split). (various references) | |
Faeroese | bresta (crack, explode), skrædna. (various references) | |
Farsi | منفجرکردن (Blowup, Dynamite, Puff), قطع کردن (Cross, Cut, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Hew, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Retrench, Rupture, Stump, Traverse), ترکیدن (Blow, Blowout, Crack, Dehisce, Explode, Pop, Reave, Rive, Rupture), انفجار (Blast, Blowout, Blowup, Bust, Eruption, Explosion, Gust, Outburst, Pop), ازهم پاشیدن (Decompose, Disintegrate, Dissipate), شیوع (Accession, Breakout, Outbreak, Prevalence), شکفتن (Dehisce, Nip, Open). (various references) | |
Finnish | haljeta (cleave, crack, split). (various references) | |
French | crever. (various references) | |
Frisian | barste, barst (crack), splite (split), spjalte (split). (various references) | |
German | platzen (blow out, bounce, break up, collapse, crack, explode, fall down, fall through, split, to burst), bersten (break, breakup, crack, split), zerplatzen (shatter), explosion (blast, detonation, explosion, fulmination), bruch (breach, breaching, break, breakage, breaking, crack, fault, fold, fraction, fracture, fragment, hernia, infringement, lump, piece, quarry, rupture, split, violation). (various references) | |
Greek | ξεσπώ (break out, burst into, erupt). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפרוץ (breach, break, break forth, break through, crack, demolish, erupt, pry open, spout, spread), להתפוצץ (blast, bust, detonate, explode, go off), להתפקע (rupture), להתפרץ (barge in, break in, break out, flare up, gush, jet, make a scene, surge), פצוץ (blast, bust, detonation, explosion), התפוצץ (explode), התפוצצות (detonation, exploding, explosion, fulmination), התפרצות (blaze, eruption, excitement, fit, outbreak, outburst, revolt, spurt, storm, surge), נפץ (crepitation, explosion). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szétszakít (bust up, disrupt, to burst, to bust, to disrupt, to pull asunder), szétreped (to burst, to bust, to crack, to exfoliate, to fragment). (various references) | |
Indonesian | meledakkan (detonate, explode), meledak, ledakan (blowup, explosion, outburst). (various references) | |
Italian | screpolatura (chap, check, crack, cracking, crevice, flaw), scoppiare (bang, blow, break, break out, erupt, explode, pop, puncture), rottura (breach, break, breakage, breakdown, breaking, disruption, fractiousness, pest, rift, Rive, rupture, severance, split, split up), fessura (chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, leak, Rive, slit, slot, split), fenditura (cleavage, crevice, fission, gap, hack, rift, scission, slit, split), esplosione (bang, blast, crack, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, raptures), crepare (crack, die of, peg out, puncture, snuff it), crepa (cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, flaw, rift, split). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 劈 (break, pierce, split, tear), ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バースト , へき (bias, break, crime, false, inferiority complex, law, pierce, prejudice, punish, ruler, split, tear). (various references) | |
Korean | 파열 (Bursting, rapture, rupture, Rupturing). (various references) | |
Manx | skioot (gush, jet, rush of liquid, spout, spurt, squirt), scoltit (chopped, cleft, cloven, fissured, gutted, hewn, parted, slit, split, sprung), scoltey piob, scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), scelt (cloven), sceilt (cloven), roie (bolt, charging, charging as animals, cursive; full retreat, dart, draught, draught ale, flow, flowing, flying, ladder, race, range, run, scurry, shooting, shooting as pain, slip, smuggle; running, smuggling, sprinting), raght (blaze of anger, nature, orgasm, sexual climax, spasm, violent emotion, wave of emotion), fosley (answer, answer door, broach as cargo; overture, broach; overture, develop, disclose, disillusion, explode, introduction, lane, lane in ice field, open, open out, open up, opening, orifice, passage, placket hole, slit, strike out, unbosom, unclench, unhook, unhook as clothing), brishey (bankrupt, bankruptcy, break, breakage, cash, cashier, change money, contravention, crash, decode, depose, disbar, dismiss, dismissal, failure, fracture, go back, infringement, interrupt, interruption, pick, raise, repulse, ruin, small change, stump, violation, wane), bleastey (blast). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urstbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | explosão (blast, blow-up, bursting, bust, detonation, discharge, eruption, explosion, outbreak, outburst, upsurge), estouro (explosion, pop), estourar (explode, pop, snap). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | furou. (various references) | |
Romanian | bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), ivire bruscã, crãpa (break, chap, check, cleave, crack, flaw, half-open, hook it, rift, slit, splinter, split, split a log, spring, wolf), da buzna (dash, dash in), da buzna în (fling), dezlãnţuire (eruption), exploda (blast, blow out, blow up, detonate, explode, fulminate, go bang, go off, go up), explozie (blast, blaze, bursting, detonation, explosion, outbreak, round, shot, spirt, tornado), face sã explodeze (explode), ţâşni (break forth, flush, gush, splash, spout, spring, squirt), face sã plesneascã, sparge (annihilate, batter, break, chip away, chop, crack, crush, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), izbucni (break forth, break out, burst into, burst out, erupt, flare, fling, gush, spurt), izbucnire (agony, blaze, eruption, explosion, fit, fume, inrush, onset, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, passion, start), plesni (break, hit, spring), ropot (ripple, round, salvo, storm, thunder, tramp, tramping), se desface (come off, disentangle, unfold, unwind), se rupe (break, part, rend, rupture, sever, shut off, snap, split), se sparge (break, chip, comb, crack, flaw, go snap, smash, snap, snap off), sfãrâma (batter, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, disrupt, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split), face sã izbucneascã. (various references) | |
Russian | разрыв (abruption, break, breaking, breakup, bursitis, disruption, disturbance, divorcement, fracture, gap, jump, laceration, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear, tearing), вспышка (blaze, deflagration, flare, flash, flash gun, glance, glint, outbreak, outburst, spark), ворваться, взрыв (agony, bang, blast, blowup, detonation, eruption, explosion, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outbust, plosion, spurt), лопнуть (go phut), лопаться;взрываться взрыв, порыв (dash, elan, fit, gust, puff, spontaneous movement, transport, waft). (various references) | |
Scottish | bragh (an explosion, explosion, peal), spreadh (sound : spreadhadh de'n bhata, strike), sgàin (burst asunder, cause to burst, rend). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | buknuti (blaze, burst into, erupt, flame out, flare, flare up), rasprskavanje (splash), pući (break, bust up, click, crack, fire, give way to, pop, pop off, rupture, snap), prsnuti (burst into, burst out, spatter, splash), prasak (bang, blasting, clap, crack, peal, pop), nastup (advent, appearance, attack, bout, conniption, fit, flash, onset, seizure), nalet (attack, dash, flurry, gust, rush, swoop), eksplozija (blast, blowout, blowup, detonation, explosion, fulmination, outburst). (various references) | |
Spanish | salva (hail, salute, salvo, volley), reventón (blowout, bust, flat tire), resquebrajarse (split), ráfaga (blast, flurry, gust, scud, squall, waft), quebraja (crack, crevice, flaw), henderse (split), hendedura (chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, gash, incision, rift, slit, split), grieta (chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, flaw, rift, seam, shake, split), explosión (bang, blast, blowoff, blowup, explosion, outburst, plosion, report), estallar (bang, blow up, break, break forth, break out, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, flare up, go off, go up, outbreak, puncture, shatter). (various references) | |
Swedish | spricka (break, chink, cleavage, crack, crevice, fissure, flaw, go phut, plough, rent, score), spränga (blast, blow up, break, crack, detonate, explode, smash), explosion (blast, detonation, explosion, fulmination, plosion), brista (be lacking, break, bust, crack, fail, fall short, give way, rupture, snap). (various references) | |
Turkish | boşanmak (be loosed, burst into tears, divorce, obtain a divorce), hamle (attack, blow, dart, dash, drive, elan, lunge, move, onset, pounce, push, put, run up, scoop, scrum, scrummage, spurt), açılma (clarification, dehiscence, deploy, deployment, dilatation, dilation, divergence, divergency, effusion, effusiveness, evolution, expanse, expansiveness, fade in, fading, opening, recrudescence, spreading, thaw), aniden açmak, atış (beat, chuck, firing, fling, gunshot, inning, innings, pistol shot, projection, put, shoot, shooting, shot, shy, throw), atılmak (adventure, dart, dash, embark, embark upon, fling, fly, hurl oneself, launch out into, leap, make a dash, plunge, rip into, rush, shoot ahead, stand out, stand out against, start in, take a step, throw on, throw oneself into, throw upon, walk the plank), fışkırmak (belch, blow, ejaculate, erupt, flush, gush out, spout, spurt, squirt, well, well forth, well out, well up), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, dart, dash, dodge, fling, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), çatlamak (chap, cleave, crack, craze, dehisce, die of exhaustion, fracture, split, spring), had safhaya gelmek, yarılmak (chap, cleave, crack, dehisce, rip, slit, split off, tear, yawn), ileri atılma, infilak (blowup, burst up, detonation, explosion, fulmination), infilak etmek (blow up, detonate, explode, go pop, spring), ortaya çıkmak (appear, approve oneself, arise, come along, come forward, come in sight, come in view, come into the open, come out, crop out, crop up, debouch, emerge, fall out, occur, offer, outcrop, shape, show up, spawn, spring, surface, turn up), patlak vermek (blow up, break out, burst out, erupt, explode, outcrop), patlama (bang, blow out, blowup, boom, burst up, crack, detonating, detonation, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fulminating, fulmination, outburst, plosion, puncture, simmer), patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), göz önüne serilme. (various references) | |
Turkmen | зatlamak (crack up, split open). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | імпульс (impact, impulse, momentum, oestrus, pulse), спалах (blaze, deflagration, explosion, flare, flare up, flash, glint, outleap, rage, spark), шквал вогню, вибухнути (burst out), вибухати (break, detonate, explode), вибух (bang, blast, blow up, blowing up, bursting, detonation, explosion, howl, hurricane, outbreak, outleap, storm, tornado), зазнати краху (collapse, go phut), лопатися (dehisce, pop), прориватися (erupt), пробиватися (pierce out, push through), переповнювати (congest, cram, gorge, overbrim, overfill, overflow). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự vỡ tung, sự nổ tung, sự nổ ra, sự nổ lực lên sự bật lên, sự dấn lên. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymrwygo (tear). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | erumpant, erumpe, erumpebant, erumpebat, erumpens, erumpentes, erumpentium, erumpere, erumpet, erumpite, erumpunt, inrumpentes, inrumperent, inruperunt, inrupit. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | berstan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 5, Verse 37 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai oudeiV ballei oinon neon eiV askouV palaiouV ei de mhge rhxei o neoV oinoV touV askouV kai autoV ekcuqhsetai kai oi askoi apolountai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et nemo mittit vinum novum in utres veteres alioquin rumpet vinum novum utres et ipsum effundetur et utres peribunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ne nan man ne sent niwe win on ealde bytta: elles þæt niwe win brycð þa bytta and þæt win byð agoten. and þa bytta forwurðað; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And no man puttith newe wyne in to oolde botels; ellis the newe wyn schal breke the botels, and the wyn schal be sched out, and the botels schulen perische. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Also no ma poureth |