DYNAMITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dynamite mean? 

• DYNAMITE (noun)
  The noun DYNAMITE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DYNAMITE used as a noun is very rare.

• DYNAMITE (verb)
  The verb DYNAMITE has 1 sense:

1. blow up with dynamite

  Familiarity information: DYNAMITE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DYNAMITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dynamite" is a kind of...):

explosive compound (a compound that is explosive)

Meronyms (substance of "dynamite"):

glyceryl trinitrate; nitroglycerin; nitroglycerine; Nitrospan; Nitrostat; trinitroglycerin (a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dynamite"):

gelignite; gelly (a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate)

Derivation:

dynamite (blow up with dynamite)

dynamitist (a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause)

• DYNAMITE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they dynamite    ... he / she / it dynamites   
Past simple: dynamited   
Past participle: dynamited   
-ing form: dynamiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Blow up with dynamite

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The rock was dynamited

Hypernyms (to "dynamite" is one way to...):

blow up; detonate; explode; set off (cause to burst with a violent release of energy)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dynamite (an explosive containing nitrate sensitized with nitroglycerin absorbed on wood pulp)

dynamiter (a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause)

 Context examples 

On the other hand, let’s say you were interviewing for a job in your industry and along came the new moon packed with dynamite that tends to cause separations.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At the meeting it was arranged that he and his house should be blown up with dynamite.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You likely have an important project on your desk, which might involve a book, screenplay, thesis, podcast, app, new TV show, or digital project that is consuming quite a bit of your thinking, or if you are a lawyer, you could be writing a dynamite opening and closing statement to present to the jury on a trial you’ll soon begin.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)