Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nuclear device or weapon.
- noun A nuclear-powered electric generating plant.
- transitive verb To attack with nuclear weapons.
- transitive verb To heat in a microwave oven.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The nape of the neck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Nuclear weapon . - noun Something that negates - especially on a catastrophic scale.
Destruction . - noun US, slang A
microwave oven - verb To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
- verb colloquial To cook food or beverages in a
microwave oven . - verb colloquial To completely destroy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cook or heat in a microwave oven
- noun the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
- verb strike at with firepower or bombs
- verb bomb with atomic weapons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Maybe it's time someone asked General Petraeus if losing New York City to a nuke is a price worth paying for our glorious victory in Iraq.
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Maybe it's time someone asked General Petraeus if losing New York City to a nuke is a price worth paying for our glorious victory in Iraq.
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For more than an hour, the former GOP nominee alternated between cracking some well-worn jokes from his two presidential campaigns and listening to the concerns of his constituents, one of whom demanded that McCain "nuke" the health care plan entirely.
McCain: Health care reform has sparked a 'peaceful revolt' 2009
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I think a drone strike might be allowable if we were taking out a nuke that al-Qaeda might transport, w/collateral damage to (say) a U.S. citizen in league with them; but really, one nuke is not an existential threat.
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But to pretend that the "same thing" could happen to any coal plant as to a 1GW nuke is simply nonsense, and you appear too well-informed to believe it yourself.
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Building a nuke is so complex a challenge that he will have to move people out of jobs quickly if they can't handle it.
Southern Co's Nuclear Gambit Jonathan Fahey 2010
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To ignore the TIME PROVEN FACTUAL safety in nuke and coal is to be of the same mindset of global warming deniers.
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Building a nuke is so complex a challenge that he will have to move people out of jobs quickly if they can't handle it.
Southern Co's Nuclear Gambit Jonathan Fahey 2010
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The most likely source for an anti-American nuke is our own stockpile or the one in Russia (or countries who used to be in the U.S.S.R.).
No Nukes? It’s No Billboards - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The only value in having a nuke is to deter the US.
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