Explosive
(a.) Driving or bursting out with violence and noise |
Explosive
(n.) An explosive agent |
Explosive
(n.) A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath |
Football
(n.) An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. |
Football
(n.) The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals. |
Hall-mark
(n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively |
Mark
(n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque. |
Mark
(n.) An old weight and coin. See Marc. |
Mark
(n.) The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money |
Mark
(n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything |
Mark
(n.) A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made |
Mark
(n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. |
Mark
(n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc. |
Mark
(n.) A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign |
Mark
(n.) An evidence of presence, agency, or influence |
Mark
(n.) That toward which a missile is directed |
Mark
(n.) Attention, regard, or respect. |
Mark
(n.) Limit or standard of action or fact |
Mark
(n.) Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station. |
Mark
(n.) Preeminence |
Mark
(n.) A characteristic or essential attribute |
Mark
(n.) A number or other character used in registring |
Mark
(n.) Image |
Mark
(n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps." |
Mark
(v. t.) To put a mark upon |
Mark
(v. t.) To be a mark upon |
Mark
(v. t.) To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action |
Mark
(v. t.) To keep account of |
Mark
(v. t.) To notice or observe |
Mark
(v. i.) To take particular notice |
Plimsoll's mark
() A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law |
Re-mark
(v. t.) To mark again, or a second time |
Trade-mark
(n.) A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. |
bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
| football score | the score in a football game |
football
football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal |
American football
American football game | a game played by two teams of players on a rectangular field yards long, teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays |
| professional football | football played for pay |
| touch football | a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled |
rugby
rugby football
rugger | a form of football played with an oval ball |
soccer
association football | a football game in which two teams of players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal |
| football play | (American football) a play by the offensive team |
charge
burster
bursting charge
explosive charge | a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time, this cartridge has a powder charge ofgrains |
disrupting explosive
bursting explosive | a high explosive that is used to damage the target that is under attack |
| explosive | a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck |
| explosive compound | a compound that is explosive |
explosive detection system
EDS | a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using Xay technology and computers, designed for use in airports |
| explosive device | device that bursts with sudden violence from internal energy |
| explosive mixture | a mixture that is explosive |
explosive trace detection
ETD | a system for screening luggage in airports, an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives |
| football | the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football |
football field
gridiron | the playing field on which football is played |
| football helmet | a padded helmet with a face mask to protect the head of football players |
| football stadium | a stadium where football games are held |
fuel-air explosive
FAE | a device consisting of a container of fuel and two explosive charges, the first charge bursts open the fuel container at a predetermined height and spreads the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen, the second charge detonates the cloud which creates an enormous blast wave and incinerates whatever is below |
improvised explosive device
I.E.D.
IED | an explosive device that is improvised |
plastic explosive
plastique | an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy |
propellant explosive
impulse explosive | an explosive that is used to propel projectiles from guns or to propel rockets and missiles or to launch torpedos and depth charges |
shoulder board
shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
| tee football tee | support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff |
| mark | the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember, it was in London that he made his mark, he left an indelible mark on the American theater |
| stretch mark | a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy) |
crisscross
cross
mark | a marking that consists of lines that cross each other |
| chatter mark | a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece |
scratch
scrape
scar
mark | an indication of damage |
burn
burn mark | a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) |
strawberry
strawberry mark
hemangioma simplex | a soft red birthmark |
| mark of Cain | the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature |
mark grade
score | a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance), she made good marks in algebra, grade A milk, what was your score on your homework? |
| Mark Gospel According to Mark | the shortest of the four Gospels in the New Testament |
letter of marque
letters of marque
letter of mark and reprisal | a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
hypertext markup language
hypertext mark-up language
HTML | a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents |
mark stigma
brand stain | a symbol of disgrace or infamy, And the Lord set a mark upon Cain--Genesis |
| mark print | a visible indication made on a surface, some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks, paw prints were everywhere |
hoofprint
hoof mark
hoof-mark | a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal |
| mark | a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation), his answer was just a punctuation mark |
call mark
call number
pressmark | a mark consisting of characters written on a book, used to indicate shelf location |
check mark
check tick | a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc., as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name |
diacritical mark
diacritic | a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |
ditto mark
ditto | a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated |
dollar mark
dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar
dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |