Dynamite
['daɪnəmaɪt] or ['daɪnə'maɪt]
Definition
(noun.) an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp.
(verb.) blow up with dynamite; 'The rock was dynamited'.
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Definition
(n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from moderate shocks, or from spontaneous decomposition.
Edited by Charlene
Definition
n. a powerful explosive agent consisting of absorbent matter as porous silica saturated with nitro-glycerine.—v.t. to blow up with dynamite.—ns. Dyn′amitard Dyn′amiter a ruffian who would use dynamite to destroy bridges gaols &c.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see dynamite in a dream, is a sign of approaching change and the expanding of one's affairs. To be frightened by it, indicates that a secret enemy is at work against you, and if you are not careful of your conduct he will disclose himself at an unexpected and helpless moment.
Editor: Moll
Unserious Contents or Definition
The peroration of an anarchist's argument.
Edited by Colin
Examples
- We have seen, in treating of safes and locks, how burglars keep pace with the latest inventions to protect property by the use of dynamite and nitro-glycerine explosions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He took some dynamite, too. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Dynamite and all. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Whose then is the dynamite? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What with cannon, dynamite, and broken bottles to cut their bare feet, I fancy those scoundrels will get a warm reception. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The removal of the dike by a discharge of forty tons of dynamite, set off by President Wilson, from Washington, was the last stage in the completion of the great waterway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Pablo had surrounded it in the dark, cut the telephone wires, placed dynamite under one wall and called on the _guardia civil_ to surrender. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Until recently, dynamiting was attended with serious danger, owing to the fact that the person who applied the torch to the fuse could not make a safe retreat before the explosion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Typist: Natalie