See nuke in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1974 January, Lloyd Norman, “The Reluctant Dragon: NATO’s Fears and the Need for New Nuclear Weapons”, in L. James Binder, editor, Army, volume 24, number 1, Washington, D.C.: Association of the United States Army, →OCLC, page 16:",
"text": "\"Mini-nukes\" are \"among the active unresolved nuclear issues in NATO at the moment,\" according to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff report. […] Mini-nukes, the report said, are the \"new generation of tactical nuclear weapons which combine low and variable yield possibilities with enhanced radiation characteristics and which could be used with artillery and laser-guided or other 'smart' bombs.\"",
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"text": "The world has witnessed the first confrontation between the ‘nukes’ and the ‘non-nukes’ [i.e., countries possessing and not possessing nuclear weapons]. Although only a political one, this confrontation at the Review Conference of the Parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which took place last May in Geneva, portends serious trouble ahead.",
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"ref": "1984, Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 301:",
"text": "‘This, er, initiator of polonium and lithium, would it be used in an anti-personnel bomb?’ he asked. ‘Oh yes, you could say so, boyo,’ replied the Welshman. ‘An initiator, you see, is what sets off a nuke.’",
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"text": "That was the apparent strategy with the hand-carried nukes, Bentley said — not to nuke Russians directly but rather nuke big holes in the Alps, so that all the resultant ash would fill up the valleys and prevent Soviet tanks and trucks from being able to pass, he said.",
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"ref": "1979, Anna Gyorgy et al., “Atomic Power, Nuclear Plants”, in No Nukes: Everyone’s Guide to Nuclear Power (Black Rose Books; no. I.49), Montreal, Que.: Black Rose Books, →ISBN, page 406:",
"text": "Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.",
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"text": "Nukes Don't Pollute",
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"ref": "2010, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, page 155:",
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"text": "A nuke [nuclear submarine] can't survive with one flooded compartment. Any compartment that floods is going to kill you. Okay? Now, that's an acceptable risk because the nuclear hull is made of better steel. If a surface ship hits a nuclear submarine, the surface ship is going to sink, which we've demonstrated again and again. [...] In a nuke you come to periscope depth once a day, every two days.",
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"text": "But nowhere in our military services is there a more highly trained, more qualified group of officers than the Navy's nuclear power officers – Navy nukes. The responsibilities the Navy's 4,300 nukes have to assume – procuring, testing, operating, and maintaining our nuclear-powered fleet – require a much deeper level of understanding than is necessary in the other services.",
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"text": "If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.",
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"ref": "1986, \"Weird Al\" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:",
"text": "It's Christmas at ground zero / Now the missiles are on their way / What a crazy fluke / We're gonna get nuked / On this jolly holiday",
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"ref": "1987, Robert R[ick] McCammon, chapter 15, in Swan Song (Pocket Books; 62413.X), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "Okay, listen to me: We've been nuked. The whole fucking country's been nuked. I don't know how many are dead in here, but we're alive, and so is Colonel Macklin.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 May, John Dalmas, chapter 43, in The Regiment: A Trilogy (Baen Books Megabook), New York, N.Y.: Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:",
"text": "Nor was nuking a solution. Kargh would never forgive nuking a planet in other than defense of the Faith. While on another level, nuking might easily bring about a hatred of the Empire that would make the conversation and rule of this sector very difficult. No, nuking was another way to earn a place on the palace wall, decorating a long iron stake.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 October 27, Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter, “The US president nukes the world: read Harold Pinter’s newly discovered play”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-03:",
"text": "Listen, I've said it once and I'll [say] it just one more time. Nuke London. This is a Presidential Decree. [...] O London is not in France. Paris is in France. Paris is the capital of France. / P I thought Paris was the capital of England. / O France. / P You mean I'm nuking the wrong place? / O Afraid. So. / P Call Charley. Tell him I revoke the order. [...] (To P) London is being nuked at this very moment.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 November 30, Dani Di Placido, “‘South Park’ Review: History Repeats Itself in ‘Super Hard PCness’”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-30:",
"text": "Eventually, Kylie joins forces with Garrison-Trump, who is attracted to the concept of annihilating a perceived enemy, and nukes the city of Toronto into dust.",
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}
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"word": "核平"
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},
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"note": "not colloquial",
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"word": "but see pommittaa ydinpommilla"
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{
"_dis1": "80 4 6 3 3 3",
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"word": "atomizar"
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"text": "To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.",
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"ref": "2006 September 7, Glen Martin, “Eureka! New tallest living Thing discovered / THE CHAMPION: At 378.1 feet, Hyperion in Redwood National Park on North Coast towers 8 feet above Stratosphere Giant”, in San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Calif.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-14:",
"text": "The find is all the more remarkable, [George] Koch said, because the trees are in a tract added to the park belatedly, during President Jimmy Carter's administration. \"They aren't all that far from an old clear-cut,\" he said. \"Basically, they were almost nuked. The fact that they weren't is amazing.\"",
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{
"ref": "2010 September 28, Annalee Newitz, “Why do We Keep Falling in Love with Cyborgs?”, in io9, archived from the original on 2019-06-16:",
"text": "Cyborg romance is the flip side of the robot uprising. Our mechanical creations love us instead of nuking us from orbit. The fantasy here isn't about making it with a hot fembot. It's about wanting approval from our children, wanting them to grow up without obliterating us.",
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{
"ref": "2018 August 3, Tom Crystal, “Lauren Southern says ‘Melbourne should be nuked’”, in The Australian, Surry Hills, N.S.W.: News Corp Australia, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
"text": "Conservative Canadian commentator Lauren Southern apparently has few fond memories of her time in Melbourne, cheekily suggesting the city \"should be nuked\". [...] \"You know that old tale in the bible where Abraham is talking to god about Sodom and Gomorrah. He's like begging with god and says 'god, if I can find ten good people in Sodom and Gomorrah, please, do not nuke Melbourne.' We did find a few hundred good ones there – there is a silent majority I believe in Melbourne so we can't nuke it yet guys I'm sorry.\"",
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{
"ref": "2019 March 25, Tiana Lowe, “How the Russia #Resistance nuked the Never Trump movement”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, Clarity Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-25:",
"text": "Yes, the Democratic Party's sharp leftward pivot might have nuked the Never Trump movement all on its own, because it is leaving no sane alternatives to [Donald] Trump.",
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"word": "aniquilar"
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"sense": "(colloquial) to destroy or erase completely",
"word": "tuhota"
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},
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"roman": "baksallaeda",
"sense": "(colloquial) to destroy or erase completely",
"word": "박살내다"
},
{
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"word": "aniquilar"
},
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"code": "pt",
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"ref": "2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News, archived from the original on 2016-05-09:",
"text": "The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. \"Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [...\"]",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "suorittaa palvelunestohyökkäys"
}
]
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{
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"name": "American English",
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"_dis1": "3 7 8 74 5 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"sense": "(colloquial) to expose to some form of radiation"
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{
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"text": "I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner.",
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"ref": "1992, Lora Brody, “Welcome to Your Kitchen”, in The Kitchen Survival Guide: A Hand-holding Kitchen Primer with 130 Recipes to Get You Started, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 15:",
"text": "If you've picked up a secondhand one, you should invest $4.00 for a microwave leak tester. The one I have has a little smiley face and a little frowning face. If the smiley face lights up when you pass it in front of the turned-on microwave, then you can nuke with impunity.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2012, Janice Kay Johnson, chapter 1, in No Matter What (Harlequin Super Romance; 1807), Don Mills, Ont.,: Harlequin, →ISBN:",
"text": "Dad had just slapped dinner on the table—a frozen lasagna nuked in the microwave, salad from a bag and presliced garlic bread, also nuked.",
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"_dis1": "3 4 5 4 82 3",
"code": "fi",
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"note": "lämmittää mikrossa/mikroaaltouunissa",
"sense": "(colloquial) to cook in a microwave oven"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(colloquial) to cook in a microwave oven",
"word": "micro-onder"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 5 4 82 3",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "(colloquial) to cook in a microwave oven",
"word": "チンする"
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{
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"ref": "1950, Modern Beekeeping, Paducah, Ky.: Walter T. Kelley, →OCLC, page 157:",
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"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1989, Vern L. Marble, “Pollination”, in Fodders for the Near East: Alfalfa (FAO Plant Protection and Production Paper; 97/1), Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, →ISBN, page 110:",
"text": "Small new hives with a queen and a few worker bees, commonly called \"nukes\" are not suitable for pollination purposes [...]. New colonies should be developed before they are brought to the alfalfa seed field [...].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Ray V. Herren, “The Honeybee Industry”, in The Science of Animal Agriculture, 4th edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 195:",
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"Rhymes:English/uːk/1 syllable",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:Explosives",
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"word": "antinuker"
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"word": "nuke and pave"
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"word": "nuke it from orbit"
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"word": "nuke it out"
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"text": "If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first.",
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"ref": "1986, \"Weird Al\" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:",
"text": "It's Christmas at ground zero / Now the missiles are on their way / What a crazy fluke / We're gonna get nuked / On this jolly holiday",
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"ref": "1987, Robert R[ick] McCammon, chapter 15, in Swan Song (Pocket Books; 62413.X), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN:",
"text": "Okay, listen to me: We've been nuked. The whole fucking country's been nuked. I don't know how many are dead in here, but we're alive, and so is Colonel Macklin.",
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{
"ref": "2004 May, John Dalmas, chapter 43, in The Regiment: A Trilogy (Baen Books Megabook), New York, N.Y.: Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:",
"text": "Nor was nuking a solution. Kargh would never forgive nuking a planet in other than defense of the Faith. While on another level, nuking might easily bring about a hatred of the Empire that would make the conversation and rule of this sector very difficult. No, nuking was another way to earn a place on the palace wall, decorating a long iron stake.",
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"ref": "2017 October 27, Antonia Fraser, Harold Pinter, “The US president nukes the world: read Harold Pinter’s newly discovered play”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-03:",
"text": "Listen, I've said it once and I'll [say] it just one more time. Nuke London. This is a Presidential Decree. [...] O London is not in France. Paris is in France. Paris is the capital of France. / P I thought Paris was the capital of England. / O France. / P You mean I'm nuking the wrong place? / O Afraid. So. / P Call Charley. Tell him I revoke the order. [...] (To P) London is being nuked at this very moment.",
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{
"ref": "2017 November 30, Dani Di Placido, “‘South Park’ Review: History Repeats Itself in ‘Super Hard PCness’”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-30:",
"text": "Eventually, Kylie joins forces with Garrison-Trump, who is attracted to the concept of annihilating a perceived enemy, and nukes the city of Toronto into dust.",
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"To use a nuclear weapon on a target."
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"text": "To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives.",
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"ref": "2006 September 7, Glen Martin, “Eureka! New tallest living Thing discovered / THE CHAMPION: At 378.1 feet, Hyperion in Redwood National Park on North Coast towers 8 feet above Stratosphere Giant”, in San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, Calif.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-14:",
"text": "The find is all the more remarkable, [George] Koch said, because the trees are in a tract added to the park belatedly, during President Jimmy Carter's administration. \"They aren't all that far from an old clear-cut,\" he said. \"Basically, they were almost nuked. The fact that they weren't is amazing.\"",
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{
"ref": "2010 September 28, Annalee Newitz, “Why do We Keep Falling in Love with Cyborgs?”, in io9, archived from the original on 2019-06-16:",
"text": "Cyborg romance is the flip side of the robot uprising. Our mechanical creations love us instead of nuking us from orbit. The fantasy here isn't about making it with a hot fembot. It's about wanting approval from our children, wanting them to grow up without obliterating us.",
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"ref": "2018 August 3, Tom Crystal, “Lauren Southern says ‘Melbourne should be nuked’”, in The Australian, Surry Hills, N.S.W.: News Corp Australia, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
"text": "Conservative Canadian commentator Lauren Southern apparently has few fond memories of her time in Melbourne, cheekily suggesting the city \"should be nuked\". [...] \"You know that old tale in the bible where Abraham is talking to god about Sodom and Gomorrah. He's like begging with god and says 'god, if I can find ten good people in Sodom and Gomorrah, please, do not nuke Melbourne.' We did find a few hundred good ones there – there is a silent majority I believe in Melbourne so we can't nuke it yet guys I'm sorry.\"",
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"ref": "2019 March 25, Tiana Lowe, “How the Russia #Resistance nuked the Never Trump movement”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, Clarity Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-03-25:",
"text": "Yes, the Democratic Party's sharp leftward pivot might have nuked the Never Trump movement all on its own, because it is leaving no sane alternatives to [Donald] Trump.",
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"To destroy or erase completely."
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"ref": "2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News, archived from the original on 2016-05-09:",
"text": "The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. \"Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [...\"]",
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"text": "I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner.",
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"ref": "1992, Lora Brody, “Welcome to Your Kitchen”, in The Kitchen Survival Guide: A Hand-holding Kitchen Primer with 130 Recipes to Get You Started, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 15:",
"text": "If you've picked up a secondhand one, you should invest $4.00 for a microwave leak tester. The one I have has a little smiley face and a little frowning face. If the smiley face lights up when you pass it in front of the turned-on microwave, then you can nuke with impunity.",
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{
"ref": "2012, Janice Kay Johnson, chapter 1, in No Matter What (Harlequin Super Romance; 1807), Don Mills, Ont.,: Harlequin, →ISBN:",
"text": "Dad had just slapped dinner on the table—a frozen lasagna nuked in the microwave, salad from a bag and presliced garlic bread, also nuked.",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "hépíng",
"sense": "(colloquial) to use a nuclear weapon on a target",
"word": "核平"
},
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"word": "but see pommittaa ydinpommilla"
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"word": "freír"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "(colloquial) to use a nuclear weapon on a target",
"word": "atomizar"
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"sense": "(colloquial) to use a nuclear weapon on a target",
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"word": "aniquilar"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "tuhota"
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"word": "atomiser"
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"word": "anéantir"
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"sense": "(colloquial) to destroy or erase completely",
"word": "박살내다"
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"word": "suorittaa palvelunestohyökkäys"
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"word": "but see altistaa säteilylle"
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"word": "チンする"
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"code": "sv",
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"text": "Small new hives with a queen and a few worker bees, commonly called \"nukes\" are not suitable for pollination purposes [...]. New colonies should be developed before they are brought to the alfalfa seed field [...].",
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"ref": "2012, Ray V. Herren, “The Honeybee Industry”, in The Science of Animal Agriculture, 4th edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 195:",
"text": "The first new queen to emerge from the cell may kill the other queens before they can emerge. The producer must be present when the new queens emerge to separate them from the nuke before all of the other new queens are killed.",
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"Rhymes:English/uːk",
"Rhymes:English/uːk/1 syllable",
"en:Explosives",
"en:Nuclear warfare",
"en:Uranium",
"en:Violence",
"en:Wiki"
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"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_text": "See nook.",
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"form": "nukes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"pos": "noun",
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"extra": "a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land",
"word": "nook"
}
],
"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"Northern England English"
],
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{
"ref": "1777, Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, “[Appendix.] No. XXVIII. Penrith Boundary on the Side of Caterlen.”, in The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland. … In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, pages 546–547:",
"text": "The ancient bounds of the cow paſture of Penrith, [...] and then from the ſaid Old Dyke end, alongſt Plumpton Dyke Eaſt over Petterel unto Plumpton park nuke, otherwiſe called Plumpton nuke; [...]",
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},
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"ref": "1827, John Hodgson, “Morpeth Deanery”, in A History of Northumberland, in Three Parts, part II, volume I, Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by Edw[ard] Walker, for J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols, [et al.], →OCLC, footnote b, page 2:",
"text": "The bounder beginneth at the east nuke of the Carter, and from thence extendeth eastward upon the height of the edge to Robscleugh Score, and from thence to Phillip's cross, so to the Spittopnuke, from thence to Greenlaw, so to the height of the Brown Hartlaw, and from thence along the high street to the nuke of the Blakelaw, and from thence to Hemmier's Well, where Ridsdale and Cookdale meet, all wᵉʰ is a bounder against Scotland.",
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"Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”)"
],
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"nook",
"nook#English:_land"
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[
"angled",
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"(chiefly Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”)"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/n(j)uk/",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-au-nuke.ogg"
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{
"rhymes": "-uːk"
},
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"homophone": "neuk"
},
{
"homophone": "nuc"
}
],
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}
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