dynamite — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

2. A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).

   Uso

   • informale
   • proscribed
   • non numerabile
   • usually

3. Anything exceptionally dangerous, exciting or wonderful.

   Uso

   • figurato
   • gergo
   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

   Even though sometimes I take differing views from some articles and letters in GCN, I think it's a dynamite piece of work. Good luck and thanks again.

   And your shoulders are frozen (Cold as the night) / Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite)

   Altri esempi (1)

   That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body. He warned us: "That issue about what's been happening at that factory, is political dynamite. Keep the lid on it."

4. A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.

   Uso

   • gergo
   • non numerabile
   • usually

Verbo

1. To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

   Esempi

   Gradually the construction gangs cut and dynamited their way through some of the most difficult country in the world.

   Altri esempi (1)

   [...] on Sunday, August 23, the L.N.W.R. tunnel was closed to enable the old brickwork to be dynamited away, traffic being diverted meanwhile through the M.R. tunnel.

2. To dismantle or destroy.

   Uso

   • figurato

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (2)

   Even the successful battle in the last century to overturn the court’s infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” doctrine wasn’t a frontal assault that dynamited precedent.

   Cue the appalling thought of a Haiti equaliser that would dynamite Scotland's hopes of doing what they came here to do - making history by making it out of a group in a World Cup.

3. To apply maximum pressure to very quickly.

   Uso

   • transitivo
   • of brakes

   Esempi

   dynamite the brakes

   Juan dynamited the brakes and the car skidded to a halt.

   Altri esempi (2)

   The 1977 Pontiacs had a tendency of dying if you were at high speed and dynamited the brakes.

   At the critical moment I'd learned from countless action flicks I dynamited the brakes and felt the impact of the sedan against my rear bumper.

4. To lock up from being invoked too suddenly.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • of brakes

   Esempi

   the brakes will dynamite

Sostantivo

1. an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp

   Termini più generali

   explosive compound

Verbo

1. blow up with dynamite

   Termini più generali

   explodedetonateblow upset off

   Esempi

   The rock was dynamited