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{
"term": "bomb",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a weapon designed to explode at a particular time or when it is dropped or thrown",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **bomb goes off/explodes**"
},
{
"text": "Hundreds of **bombs were dropped** on the city."
},
{
"text": "to **plant/detonate a bomb**"
},
{
"text": "a **suicide bomb**"
},
{
"text": "a **roadside bomb** *(= one that is designed to blow up vehicles)*"
},
{
"text": "a **bomb attack/blast**"
},
{
"text": "extensive bomb damage"
},
{
"text": "A terrorist bomb ripped through the town's packed shopping centre."
},
{
"text": "Eighty people died when bombs rained down on the city's crowded streets."
},
{
"text": "Enemy planes dropped bombs along the railway line."
},
{
"text": "He used a clock to make a home-made bomb."
},
{
"text": "India started to build a nuclear bomb."
},
{
"text": "Police suspect terrorists planted the bomb."
},
{
"text": "The land was scarred with bomb craters."
},
{
"text": "The plane had been adapted to carry bombs."
},
{
"text": "The suspect was apprehended for planting a fake bomb in a bus terminal."
},
{
"text": "Their truck was hit by a stray bomb."
},
{
"text": "a practice flight with dummy bombs"
},
{
"text": "There was no warning of the bomb blast which ripped through the packed station."
}
],
"topics": ["War and conflict"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
"verb + bomb": ["place", "plant", "put"],
"bomb + verb": ["fall", "rain", "rain down"],
"bomb + noun": ["attack", "blast", "explosion"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "nuclear weapons (atomic or hydrogen bombs)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "countries that have the bomb"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "huge", "large"],
"verb + bomb": ["place", "plant", "put"],
"bomb + verb": ["fall", "rain", "rain down"],
"bomb + noun": ["attack", "blast", "explosion"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a lot of money",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That dress must have cost a bomb!"
},
{
"text": "Some company directors make an absolute bomb."
}
],
"topics": ["Money"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a complete failure",
"labels": "(North American English, informal)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The musical was a complete bomb on Broadway."
}
],
"topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a long forward throw of the ball",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "a container in which a liquid such as paint or insect poison is kept under pressure and released as a spray or as foam",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a bug bomb *(= used for killing insects)*"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be very good; to be the best",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Check out the new website. It's the bomb!"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be very successful",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our performance went down a bomb."
},
{
"text": "The party was really going (like) a bomb."
},
{
"text": "Her new novel is going like a bomb *(= selling well)*."
}
],
"topics": ["Success"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to go very fast",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bɒm/",
"audio": "bo/bomb/bomb__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bɑːm/",
"audio": "bo/bomb/bomb__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 17th cent.: from French bombe, from Italian bomba, probably from Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin."
}