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Definitions: Exploded |
ExplodedAdjective1. Blown apart with great violence; "fragments of the exploded tank were scattered in all directions". 2. Showing the parts of something separated but in positions that show their correct relation to one another; "the manufacturer provided an exploded view of the apparatus". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "exploded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting. |
Error | Exploded, refuted; discarded. |
Oldness | Antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; time worn; crumbling; (deteriorated); secondhand. |
The Past | Adjective: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete; (old). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Exploded |
| English words defined with "exploded": blow up ♦ detonate, Detonating primer, Directly proportional ♦ explode ♦ highly sensitive ♦ knife ♦ Needle gun ♦ Percussion bullet, popcorn, Powder mine ♦ set off ♦ tongue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "exploded": BURNING-PLANT OPERATOR ♦ exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded display, exploded pie, exploding bridgewire initiator, explosible, explosive atmospheres ♦ plug shot, Poulter method ♦ series shots, shot point ♦ TURNER ♦ urbanity. (references) |
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Screenplays | I threw it up in the air and I tried to freeze it and it exploded. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) She saw these scores and her head spun round and exploded. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) It all started the day my Grandmother exploded. (The Crow Road; writing credit: Iain Banks; Bryan Elsley) My dad's from that era when you lived to 50, your heart exploded and that was that. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Kfer) I was in the water closet of the Bournemouth express when it quite unaccountably exploded, thereby extensively damaging the rest of the train. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) | |
Clever | You're trailer trash when you lit a match in the bathroom, and your house exploded right off its wheels. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Night the World Exploded (1957) | |
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 | Peering halfway across the universe to analyze light from exploded stars that died long before ...Credit: NASA. |  | This is a Hubble telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3,000 years ...Credit: NASA. |
 | RAR bomb being exploded astern of EXPLORER In vicinity of Islands of the Four Mountains.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Figure 61. Electrosounder, used by the Italian Navy in 1954, employed a small explosive device which exploded on impact with the bottom and the sound subsequently was heard at a hydrophone on a ship. The use of explosives for depth finding was first suggested by a French engineer, Urbain Dortet de Tessan about 1850.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Bumper No. 8, a captured German V-2 rocket, lifts off from Cape Canaveral. This rocket exploded in flight, but was the first to lift off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, Dec. 7, 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from the. |
 | USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship.Credit: NAVY. |  | Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is inboard of the sunken battleship. Note extensive distortion of West Virginia's lower midships superstructure, caused by torpedoes that exploded below that location. Also note 5"/25 gun, still partially covered with canvas, boat crane swung outboard and empty boat cradles near the smokestacks, and base of radar antenna atop West Virginia's foremast.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Seccession exploded.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Behind him a rocket exploded.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In its positive aims, however, this form of Socialism aspires either to restoring the old means of production and of exchange, and with them the old property relations, and the old society, or to cramping the modern means of production and of exchange, within the framework of the old property relations that have been, and were bound to be, exploded by those means. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The number of real estate brokerage franchises exploded in 1999 in response to a boom in the French real estate market. (references) | |
Several people were killed on March 7 when a bomb linked to Uyghur separatists exploded aboard a bus in one of Beijing's busiest shopping districts. (references) | ||
The subscribers to iMode, that is, Internet connection service by NTT DoCoMo via mobile phone, exploded since the above survey, and the subscription has exceeded 10 million only after a little over one year since its inception. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | In 2000 a bomb exploded in an art gallery directly below the offices of The Daily News. (references) |
Philippines | On February 2, two hand grenades exploded at the office of the director of the National Press Club; police had no suspects. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | By the late nineties, as agricultural production exploded and the country retrenched, a definite deflationary trend took hold and Vietnamese planners were beset with the unusual problem of the need to stimulate demand in the economy. (references) |
Human Rights | Nepal | The bomb exploded, killing three persons. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | The mob attacked the victim after a bomb exploded in the area. (references) | |
United Kingdom | In March a car bomb exploded outside a BBC building in London. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | A bomb exploded during the procession. (references) |
Minorities | Sri Lanka | In May 2000, 23 persons were killed and dozens injured when an LTTE bomb exploded near a temple at the Buddhist Vesak festival. (references) |
Bangladesh | On June 3, in Baniachar, Gopalganj district, a bomb exploded inside a Catholic church during Sunday mass, killing 10 persons and injuring 20 others. (references) | |
Travel | Nepal | In 2000, Maoist insurgents exploded bombs in at least two foreign-owned operations in Nepal, in one case shutting down a production line for several months. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others. The owner of a powder mill Was musing on a distant hill -- Something his mind foreboded -- When from the cloudless sky there fell A deviled human kidney! Well, The man's mill had exploded. His hat he lifted from his head; "I beg your pardon, sir," he said; "I didn't know 'twas loaded." Swatkin |
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Rush Limbaugh | Libby introduced himself as a nuclear physics graduate student at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and told us about a report he read in Physics Today that debunked the theory that we would all die if we exploded every nuke we have. |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The resumption of this old and otherwise exploded system of colonial exclusion has not secured to the shipping interest of Great Britain the relief which, at the expense of the distant colonies and of the United States, it was expected to afford. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Then, in turmoil and triumph, that promise exploded onto the world stage to make this the American Century. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Exploded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 75.55% of the time. "Exploded" is used about 641 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) | 75.55% | 484 | 12,322 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 20.87% | 134 | 27,488 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.96% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.47% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 641 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "exploded": exploded circular graph ♦ exploded circular graphic ♦ exploded custom ♦ exploded display ♦ exploded pie ♦ exploded theories ♦ exploded view. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "exploded": exploded-pie. | |
Ending with "exploded": oft-exploded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "exploded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | adet i përjashtuar (exploded custom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отживял обичай (exploded custom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 爆炸 (blowup, Burst, Detonation, Explode, Exploding, Explosion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | exploded view (exploded view), exploded display (exploded display), eksploderet tegning (exploded view), udskåret lagkagesegment (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), udskåret lagkagediagram (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph), trae defibreret ved hjaelp af damp (steam exploded wood), spraengskitse (exploded view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitgetrokken tekening (exploded view), schijfgrafiek met losse sectoren (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph), schijfdiagram in segmenten (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), opengewerkte tekening (cutaway symbol, exploded display, exploded view), opengewerkte doorsnede (exploded view), door behandeling met stoom vervezeld hout (steam exploded wood), cirkeldiagram met uitgenomen sectoren (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | räjäytyskuva (exploded display), hajotuskuva (exploded display), hajotetun sektorikaavion viipale (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), hajotettu sektorikaavio (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | éclatai, éclatés, éclatâmes, éclatèrent, éclata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | explodierte (detonated), auseinandergezogene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξύλο που έχει τεμαχιστεί με ατμό (steam exploded wood), μη κεντραρισμένη πίτα (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), μη κεντραρισμένο τρισδιάστατο τμήμα γραφήματος (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph), με κεντραρισμένο κυκλικό γράφημα (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), λεπτομέρεια σε ανάπτυξη (exploded view), απεικόνιση μη κεντραρισμένου κυκλικού γραφήματος (exploded display), διευρυμένη εικόνα (exploded view), διευρυμένη άποψη (exploded view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felrobbant (blow up, detonate, to bump, to detonate, to explode, to set off, to touch off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vista esplosa (exploded display), torta esplosa (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), torta con fette decentrate (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph), spaccato (cleft, cracked, cutaway, exploded view, riven, split), legno sminuzzato a mezzo di vapore (steam exploded wood), diagramma circolare esploso (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), diagramma circolare con settori decentrati (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 폭발하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | prowit dy ve neuchiart, poltit (struck, thumped), bleaystit (blasted, unhusked; blow up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | explodeday vista rebentada (exploded view), madeira estilhaçada pelo vapor (steam exploded wood). (various references) взрывать взорвавший. (various references) vista despiezada del puesto de tiro (exploded view of firing unit), vista despiezada (exploded display), madera desfibrada mediante vapor (steam exploded wood), gráfico de tarta con separación de valores (exploded-pie chart, exploded-pie diagram, exploded-pie graph), gráfico de tarta con separación de sectores (exploded circular graph, exploded circular graphic, exploded pie), despiezado (exploded view). (various references) exploderade. (various references) sökülmüş hali gösteren çizim (exploded view), şema (diagram, exploded view, schema), çizelge (chart, exploded view, graph, table). (various references) розібраний (classified), підірваний (broken, cracked, fired). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "exploded": unexploded. (additional references) | |
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"Exploded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exploid, exploide, exsplode. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exploded" (pronounced iksplō"dud) |
| 9 | i k s p l ō" d u d | unexploded. |
| 6 | -p l ō" d u d | imploded. |
| 5 | -l ō" d u d | loaded, reloaded, unloaded. |
| 4 | -ō" d u d | coded, corroded, encoded, eroded, goaded, outmoded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, ended, enshrouded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-l-o-p-x" | |
-1 letter: explode. | |
-2 letters: eloped, peddle. | |
-3 letters: deled, doled, doped, elope, epode, expel, loped, loxed, poled, poxed. | |
-4 letters: deed, deep, dele, dole, dope, eddo, expo, lode, lope, oped, peed, peel, pele, pled, plod, pole. | |
-5 letters: dee, del, dex, doe, dol, eel, eld, led, lee, lex, lop, lox, odd, ode, old, ole, ope, ped, pee, pod, pol, pox. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-l-o-p-x" | |
+2 letters: unexploded. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 70 6C 6F 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- .--. .-.. --- -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01110000 01101100 01101111 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x p l o d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0070 006C 006F 0064 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3990827881707170 |
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