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dynamite

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dynamite! is the second studio album released by the duo Ike & Tina Turner on the Sue Records label in 1963.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, from Swedish dynamit , coined 1867 by its inventor, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), from Greek dynamis "power" (see dynamic (adj.)) + -ite (2). Figurative sense of "something potentially dangerous" is from 1922. Positive sense of "dynamic ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting; invented by http://en.wikipedi org/wiki/Alfred%20Nobel in 1867. 2 (context figuratively English) Anything exceptionally dangerous, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Explosive \Ex*plo"sive\, n. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder , TNT , dynamite , or nitro-glycerine . A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, ...

Usage examples of dynamite.

This cavern, from which The Shadow had dynamited a way to the Aureole shaft above, was the beginning of another trail that promised a solution to mysterious occurrences that still had Harry puzzled.

A thing that had started almost a year ago, with Chief Bugler Houston, and led up through Dynamite Holmes and the boxing into The Treatment and Ike Galovitch and from there to the Stockade and Jack Malloy and the late Fatso Judson, and a lot of other things both before and after, to finally here, where, for this split minute that was the current point of time in the line of time which was not a line but an infinite series of points, four strangers held it all in their hands without even knowing it.

After fifteen minutes or so, if he lit a match to those fumes, it would be the equivalent of 105 Rita Clay Estrada placing eight or ten sticks of dynamite inside the hull.

The book showed that Loge had been employed as an expert operator, in the pay of a certain radical organization, to pull off dynamiting jobs in various parts of the country.

Once it became apparent that he was political dynamite, that no state and no governor would dare move against him, he had to be tapped for the Masculinist program.

The Tao thought that The Shadow was reaching for another pinch of that powdered compound that boomed like dynamite when he snapped his fingers.

I imagined something tornadic, colored pinksince the dynamite piled on-stage was pink.

A non-commissioned officer, named Weill, with a party blew up the wall with dynamite, and the safe was extricated from the rubbish, carried to the station, put on a truck, and sent to Boche-land.

Ross stowed his share of the dynamite more cautiously, unlocked the brakes, put the bulldozer in gear, and backed across the square.

Smith readily agreed to do a series of novelettes constructed around the character Neal Cloud, a professional blaster of atomic vortices from power plants out of control, an extrapolation of the business of dynamiting blazing oil wells.

The dynamite, the detective said, there were impurities, a residue of ammonium oxalate and potassium perchloride that might mean the bomb was homemade, and the dead bolt on the front door was shattered.

Ammonium nitrate has not only been used in dynamite, but also in many other different explosive compounds, including NG picric acid, and coal dust.

A dynamite explosion had destroyed a cabin in the Chiricahua Mountains near Pinery Canyon.

If they had filled a propane truck with that much C-4 or even dynamite, it would be enough to put the Hoover Building out onto the Beltway.

Roth, by the use of booby traps, Molotov cocktails, dynamite, punji pits, C-4, rocks, clubs, bottles, chains, wire, ambushes.