implode — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To collapse or burst inward violently.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Antonyme

   explode

   Beispiele

   The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth.

2. To collapse or burst inward violently. To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.

   Gebrauch

   • broadly
   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

   Ragusa's campaign imploded after she confused coal mining with oil drilling during a speech.

3. To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

4. The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.

5. To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Antonyme

   explode

   Beispiele

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   I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]

Verb

1. burst inward

   Synonyme

   go off

   Antonyme

   explode

   Oberbegriffe

   collapsefall incave ingivegive waybreakfounder

   Beispiele

   The bottle imploded