| 单词 | explosion |
| 释义 | explosion (once / 355 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n Whether it's a bursting balloon or a detonating bomb, you're sure to notice an explosion. An explosion involves a sudden and often violent burst of energy. The noun explosion is useful when you're talking about a watermelon smashing on the pavement or the burst of fireworks overhead, but it can also describe a sudden increase in something, like an explosion of excitement at a birthday party when the pony arrives. Originally, explosion was used to mean "scornful rejection," from its root in the Latin explodere, "hiss off the stage," and a disappointed audience today might still be described as "exploding with boos." WORD FAMILYexplosion: explosions+/explode: exploded, explodes, exploding, explosion/exploded: unexploded USAGE EXAMPLESThe five explosions wounded 49 people, they added. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The company says its investigation of the Sept. 1 explosion found that a tank failed within the larger, second-stage liquid oxygen tank. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) More than 30 people called police in the central Connecticut town over what sounded like an explosion. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the act of exploding or bursting the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children Syn|Hypo|Hyper burst detonation the act of detonating an explosive fulminationthe act of exploding with noise and violence percussionthe act of exploding a percussion cap change of integrity the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something 2n a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction Syn|Hypo|Hyper blowup, detonation airburst an explosion in the atmosphere blastan explosion (as of dynamite) backfirea loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine big bang(cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe backfire, blowbackthe backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired fragmentationthe scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes inflation(cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang bomb blastthe explosion of a bomb back-blast, backblastbackfire from a recoilless weapon discharge the sudden giving off of energy 3n the noise caused by an explosion the explosion was heard a mile away Hyper noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) 4n a sudden outburst 2an explosion of laughter an explosion of rage Hyper blowup, ebullition, effusion, gush, outburst an unrestrained expression of emotion n a sudden great increase 3the population explosion the information explosion Hyper increase a change resulting in an increase n the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant 4Syn|Hyper plosion release, tone ending (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone n a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball Hyper golf shot, golf stroke, swing the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
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