Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a class of powerful explosives composed of nitroglycerin or ammonium nitrate dispersed in an absorbent medium with a combustible dope, such as wood pulp, and an antacid, such as calcium carbonate, used in blasting and mining.
- noun Something exceptionally exciting or wonderful.
- noun Something exceptionally dangerous.
- transitive verb To blow up, shatter, or otherwise destroy with dynamite.
- adjective Outstanding; superb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mine or charge with dynamite in order to prevent the approach of an enemy, or for destructive purposes.
- To blow up or destroy by or as if by dynamite.
- noun Nitroglycerin soaked up by silicious earth as an inert absorbent or ‘dope’ is now distinguished as dynamite No. 1, and the meaning of the word is extended so as to include also numerous mixtures of nitro-glycerin with absorbents which increase the force of the explosion. See
dope , 3. - noun An explosive of great power, consisting of a mixture of nitroglycerin with some absorbent such as sawdust, or a certain silicious earth from Oberlohe in Hanover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
class ofexplosives made fromnitroglycerine in anabsorbent medium such askieselguhr , used inmining andblasting ; invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867. - noun figuratively Anything
exceptionally dangerous ,exciting orwonderful . - verb To
blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb blow up with dynamite
- noun an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If Dilara spoke Kurdish, she’d be seeing the word dynamite on the side.
The Ark Boyd Morrison 2009
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Prior to that, he had done ten years at Leavenworth for stealing dynamite from a mining company and selling it to the American Indian Movement.
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We got all of it lugged up here to the hideout and that dynamite is hid real good.
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That night, Locke, Jack and Kate blow open the hatch using 200-year-old dynamite from the Black Rock, and find Desmond down below.
'Lost': When are we? 2009
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This Week in DVD, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, coco before chanel, Good Hair, halo legends, Hunger, Law-Abiding-Citizen, revanche, spring fever kingdarius black dynamite is no less than a buy because it was hilarious! and basically tha funniest movie i've seen since 40yr old virgin and saying its a rent is just plain disrespectful
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film 2010
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Captain of the Yard, believes to this day that the dynamite is somewhere in the prison.
Chapter 2 2010
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I have sat on the Big Rock, where the dynamite is kept, of which I have been made keeper.
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It is known that they stole a large amount of dynamite from the local stone quarry.
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When it comes to protecting the environment, dynamite is not one of the materials that comes to mind.
Dynamite Becomes Latest Weapon in Battle to Save Forests | Impact Lab 2006
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That's not a question but if you can make one out of it I think it would make for a freakin 'dynamite opportunity to slam Jesse Jackson good.
02/21/2005 2005
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