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Meaning of "nail bomb" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NAIL BOMB

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAIL BOMB

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Nail bomb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NAIL BOMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nail bomb

The nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device packed with nails to increase its wounding ability. The nails act as shrapnel, leading almost certainly to greater loss of life and injury in inhabited areas than the explosives alone would. The nail bomb is also a type of flechette weapon. Such weapons use bits of shrapnel to produce a large radius of destruction. Nail bombs are often used by terrorists, in particular by suicide bombers, since they cause large numbers of casualties when detonated in crowded places. Nail bombs can be detected via electromagnetic sensors and standard metal detectors.

Definition of nail bomb in the English dictionary

The definition of nail bomb in the dictionary is an explosive device containing nails, used by terrorists to cause serious injuries in crowded situations.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NAIL BOMB

nail
nail bar
nail brush
nail clippers
nail down
nail enamel
nail file
nail lacquer
nail one´s colours to the mast
nail polish
nail polish remover
nail puller
nail punch
nail scissors
nail set
nail technician
nail up
nail varnish
nail varnish remover
nail wrench

WORDS THAT END LIKE NAIL BOMB

atom bomb
atomic bomb
bath bomb
bomb
car bomb
cherry bomb
cluster bomb
dirty bomb
hydrogen bomb
like a bomb
logic bomb
neutron bomb
nuclear bomb
petrol bomb
pipe bomb
smart bomb
smoke bomb
stink bomb
the bomb
time bomb
water bomb

Synonyms and antonyms of nail bomb in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «nail bomb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NAIL BOMB

Find out the translation of nail bomb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nail bomb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nail bomb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

钉子炸弹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bomba de clavos
570 millions of speakers

English

nail bomb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कील बम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قنبلة مسمار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ногтей бомба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prego bomba
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নখ বোমা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ongle bombe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bom kuku
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nagelbombe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ネイル爆弾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

네일 폭탄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bom kuku
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bom móng tay
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆணி குண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नख बम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tırnak bombası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bomba a chiodi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paznokci bomba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нігтів бомба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cui bombă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βόμβα καρφί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spyker bom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spikbomben
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spiker bombe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nail bomb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NAIL BOMB»

The term «nail bomb» is normally little used and occupies the 141.654 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NAIL BOMB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nail bomb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAIL BOMB»

Discover the use of nail bomb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nail bomb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Principal conclusions and overall assessment of the Bloody ...
His evidence was that he fired at a man he was sure, at the time, was about to throw a nail bomb at his soldiers. ln our view Lieutenant N fired, probably either in the mistaken belief that his target was about to throw a nail bomb, but without any ...
Bloody Sunday Inquiry, William Hoyt, John Toohey, 2010
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The Legal Protection of Human Rights: Sceptical Essays
Soldier 150, who had driven the boy to the Army medical post, later testified to the Saville Inquiry that he did not see any bombs on the boy and that he was 'sure that if there had been a nail bomb or bombs in the man's pocket I would have ...
Tom Campbell, Keith D. Ewing, Adam Tomkins, 2011
3
What's Up, Britain?
Around the corner from the museum, on Brick Lane, is Cafe Naz, a Bangladeshi restaurant that in 1999 was almost destroyed by a nail bomb planted by a neo- Nazi. The restaurant's owner, Muquim Ahmed, is thought to be the first Brick Lane  ...
Ruth Flensted, Bodil Hess Toft Ruth Flensted Bente Sib, 2008
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The Volunteer: A Former IRA Man's True Story
I was glad that I had not thrown my nail-bomb, but confused about the relation of the incidents. The British Army released a statement that the youth had been holding a nail-bomb, but the claim was patently untrue and did a lot to enrage the  ...
Shane Paul O'Doherty, 2011
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The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on ...
I was still ecstatic, and anxiously awaited Nail's bomb damage assessment (BDA) . “Streetcar Lead, direct hit! Looks like a bull's eye from here. Nice shooting. Two, put your bombs just forward of your Lead's hits. Two is cleared in hot now.
Kenny Fields, 2011
6
Combating Terrorism: Strategies of Ten Countries
New tactics included drive-by shootings, drive-by bombings (tossing a nail bomb out of the window of a speeding car), and bomb attacks on restaurants. lrish terrorism in Great Britain dropped off significantly in 1976. While eleven incidents  ...
Yonah Alexander, 2002
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The Advocate
The Admiral Duncan, a gay bar in the Soho district of London, was packed with people when suddenly a nail bomb exploded. "There was a loud bang and then smoke everywhere," said Rosie King, a lesbian who witnessed the explosion.
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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the ...
In 1999, three nail-bomb attacks in London killed three people and left more than one hundred injured, some critically. The first bombing occurred on April 17, 1999. A bomb packed with nails exploded on Brixton High Road, in the heart of the ...
Loren Rhoads, 2009
9
Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber Threats and Cyber Terrorism
David Copeland, for example, unsuccessfully used online material to make a nail bomb with the intention of blowing up various locations in London (Hopkins and Hall 2000). He used the Internet to facilitate his aims though he used cyber ...
Mr Brian Blakemore, Mr Imran Awan, 2012
10
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of ...
Seeking more radical contacts, he joined the NSM, being appointed an area leader in February 1999. His first nail-bomb attack on 19 April in Brixton, a largely black London borough, wounded thirty-nine people. On 24 April he struck in Brick  ...
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAIL BOMB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nail bomb is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bomb disposal teams called out 265 times in 14 months
A home-made nail bomb was among the scores of potentially deadly items army bomb disposal experts were called to deal with across Tayside ... «The Courier, Jul 15»
2
Road crash leads to 29 years of life-saving fundraising
When a nail bomb went off in a crowded Soho pub in 1999, a top surgeon from London's Royal Free Hospital contacted John to ask for permission to borrow the ... «Braintree and Witham Times, Jul 15»
3
FactCheck: how many terror plots have been busted since the 7/7 …
Five were caught with a homemade nail bomb, guns and knives; 2013 Operation Pitsford – 11 men convicted of terror offences after massive ... «Channel 4 News, Jul 15»
4
Man told police he planted nail bomb on Southampton train
A TROUBLED man rang up the police and told them he had planted nail bomb on a train, Southampton Crown Court heard. An officer went to ... «Daily Echo, Jul 15»
5
The alphabet of months: a year of living with multiple sclerosis
If you want an easy sense of how tricky the relationship between the mind and the brain can get, consider the conceptual nail bomb that is the ... «New Statesman, Jun 15»
6
White Guy Terrorism Is Media's Favorite Story
In 2000, when a British National Party member planted a nail bomb in London, the BBC captioned its picture “Police want to crackdown on ... «Accuracy In Media, Jun 15»
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One of the purposes of terrorism is to magnify the terrorist
I was in a bar in Soho on a spring evening in 1999 when a nail bomb went off in a nearby pub, and I will never forget the scene in Old Compton ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
8
David Cameron: I am personally committed to tackling all hate crime
Mr Healey founded his campaign in April 2009, to mark the tenth anniversary of the London Nail Bomb attacks in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho, ... «PinkNews, Jun 15»
9
IRA bombings and the hunt for justice
London. In 1982 a nail bomb exploded in Hyde Park as troops on parade rode past, followed by a second device which was exploded under a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
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Mark Crockett in court over 'nail bomb' at Logierait Park in Perthshire
It is claimed he made a nail bomb "with intent by means thereof to endanger life or cause serious injury to property or enable any other person ... «stv.tv, Feb 15»

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