"dirty bomb" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-dirty-bomb.ogg [US] Forms: dirty bombs [plural]
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  1. A device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material, designed to spread radiation over a wide area. Categories (topical): Explosives Synonyms: Radiological Dispersal Device, RDD, radiological bomb Translations (device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material): قُنْبُلَة قَذِرَة (qunbula qaḏira) [feminine] (Arabic), бру́дная бо́мба (brúdnaja bómba) [feminine] (Belarusian), мръ́сна бо́мба (mrǎ́sna bómba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 髒彈 (Chinese Mandarin), 脏弹 (zāngdàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 骯髒炸彈 (Chinese Mandarin), 肮脏炸弹 (āngzāng zhàdàn) (Chinese Mandarin), špinavá bomba [feminine] (Czech), beskidt bombe [common-gender] (Danish), vuile bom [feminine] (Dutch), räpane pomm (Estonian), likainen pommi (Finnish), bombe sale [feminine] (French), schmutzige Bombe [feminine] (German), βρώμικη βόμβα (vrómiki vómva) [feminine] (Greek), פְּצָצָה מְלֻכְלֶכֶת (ptsatsá melukhlékhet) [feminine] (Hebrew), piszkos bomba (Hungarian), buama salach [masculine] (Irish), bomba sporca [feminine] (Italian), 汚い爆弾 (kitanai bakudan) (alt: きたないばくだん) (Japanese), ダーティー・ボム (dātī-bomu) (Japanese), 더러운 폭탄 (deoreoun poktan) (Korean), 더티밤 (deotibam) (Korean), netīrā bumba [feminine] (Latvian), nešvari bomba [feminine] (Lithuanian), валкана бомба (valkana bomba) [feminine] (Macedonian), skitten bombe [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), بمب کثیف (bomb-e kasif) (Persian), brudna bomba [feminine] (Polish), bomba suja [feminine] (Portuguese), bomba murdară [feminine] (Romanian), гря́зная бо́мба (grjáznaja bómba) [feminine] (Russian), прљава бомба [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), prljava bomba [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), špinavá bomba [feminine] (Slovak), umazana bomba [feminine] (Slovene), bomba sucia [feminine] (Spanish), radioaktiv bomb [common-gender] (Swedish), smutsig bomb [common-gender] (Swedish), брудна́ бо́мба (brudná bómba) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dirty_bomb-en-noun--hXNgnkS Disambiguation of Explosives: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material': 87 13
  2. A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design. Categories (topical): Explosives, Nuclear warfare, Radioactivity, Weapons Synonyms: cobalt bomb, salted bomb Translations (nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design): бру́дная бо́мба (brúdnaja bómba) [feminine] (Belarusian), beskidt bombe [common-gender] (Danish), likainen pommi (Finnish), schmutzige Bombe [feminine] (German), гря́зная бо́мба (grjáznaja bómba) [feminine] (Russian), smutsig bomb [common-gender] (Swedish), брудна́ бо́мба (brudná bómba) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dirty_bomb-en-noun-wbS3yBaP Disambiguation of Explosives: 53 47 Disambiguation of Nuclear warfare: 19 81 Disambiguation of Radioactivity: 31 69 Disambiguation of Weapons: 32 68 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 76 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 18 82 Disambiguation of 'nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design': 10 90

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        [
          "explosive",
          "explosive"
        ],
        [
          "radioactive",
          "radioactive"
        ],
        [
          "radiation",
          "radiation"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Radiological Dispersal Device"
        },
        {
          "word": "RDD"
        },
        {
          "word": "radiological bomb"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "clean bomb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nuclear bomb that spreads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or by design."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nuclear bomb",
          "nuclear bomb"
        ],
        [
          "radiation",
          "radiation"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cobalt bomb"
        },
        {
          "word": "salted bomb"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-us-dirty-bomb.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/En-us-dirty-bomb.ogg/En-us-dirty-bomb.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-us-dirty-bomb.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qunbula qaḏira",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "قُنْبُلَة قَذِرَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "brúdnaja bómba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бру́дная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mrǎ́sna bómba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мръ́сна бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "髒彈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zāngdàn",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "脏弹"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "骯髒炸彈"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "āngzāng zhàdàn",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "肮脏炸弹"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "špinavá bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "beskidt bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vuile bom"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "räpane pomm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "likainen pommi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bombe sale"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schmutzige Bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vrómiki vómva",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "βρώμικη βόμβα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ptsatsá melukhlékhet",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "פְּצָצָה מְלֻכְלֶכֶת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "piszkos bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "buama salach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba sporca"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きたないばくだん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kitanai bakudan",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "汚い爆弾"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dātī-bomu",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "ダーティー・ボム"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "deoreoun poktan",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "더러운 폭탄"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "deotibam",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "더티밤"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "netīrā bumba"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nešvari bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "valkana bomba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "валкана бомба"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skitten bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bomb-e kasif",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "word": "بمب کثیف"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brudna bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba suja"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba murdară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grjáznaja bómba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гря́зная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "прљава бомба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prljava bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "špinavá bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "umazana bomba"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bomba sucia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "radioaktiv bomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "smutsig bomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "brudná bómba",
      "sense": "device containing conventional explosives and radioactive material",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "брудна́ бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "brúdnaja bómba",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бру́дная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "beskidt bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "word": "likainen pommi"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "schmutzige Bombe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grjáznaja bómba",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гря́зная бо́мба"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "smutsig bomb"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "brudná bómba",
      "sense": "nuclear bomb that speads radiation over a wide area due to inefficiency or design",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "брудна́ бо́мба"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "dirty bomb"
  ],
  "word": "dirty bomb"
}

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