microwave, micro-cook, zap, nuke
(verb) cook or heat in a microwave oven; “You can microwave the leftovers”
nuke, atom-bomb
(verb) bomb with atomic weapons
nuke, atomize, atomise, zap
(verb) strike at with firepower or bombs; “zap the enemy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
nuke (plural nukes) (chiefly, US, colloquial)
A nuclear weapon.
(by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
A nuclear power station.
(nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
(rare) A microwave oven.
nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)
(transitive, chiefly, US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
(transitive, chiefly, US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
Synonyms: annihilate, devastate, obliterate, Thesaurus:destroy
(transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
(transitive, chiefly, US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
(transitive, chiefly, US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
nuke (plural nukes)
Alternative spelling of nuc
nuke (plural nukes)
(anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”)
nuke (plural nukes)
(chiefly, Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”)
• neuk, unke
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
