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Definition: Hand Grenade |
Hand GrenadeNoun1. A grenade designed to be thrown by hand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | I hope the next item isn't a hand grenade. (Big Man on Campus; writing credit: Allan Katz) | |
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Civil Liberties | Argentina | On March 28, Carlos Abrehu, editor of daily La Gaceta of Tucuman province, received a package containing a hand grenade and a note. (references) |
Human Rights | Uganda | On March 17, a hand grenade thrown at pedestrians near Kampala's Old Taxi Park killed one person and injured four others. (references) |
Philippines | In January a mother and her infant daughter were killed by a fragmentation hand grenade during an NPA raid on a village in Northern Samar province. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | In February a hand grenade was thrown into the yard of an ethnic Serb family near Drnis in the Dalmatia region; no arrests were made. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Local police detained two Bosniak men for throwing a hand grenade at the Serb Orthodox Church in the Bosniak-dominated town of Sanski Most on May 8. The windows of a nearby cafe owned by a Serb also were smashed in the incident. (references) | |
Political Rights | Turkey | In September an unknown assailant threw a hand grenade into a HADEP office in Cizre (Sirnak province) and caused some damage, but no injuries; a police investigation was inconclusive. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hand grenade | 68 |
holy hand grenade | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hand grenade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | granatë (grenade), bombë dore. (various references) | |
Arabic | قنبلة يدوية (grenade). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръчна граната (grenade, pineapple, trench-bomb). (various references) | |
Chinese | 手榴彈 (track and field shotput). (various references) | |
Czech | ruèní granát. (various references) | |
Danish | haandgranat. (various references) | |
Dutch | handgranaat. (various references) | |
French | grenade main. (various references) | |
German | Handgranate (grenade). (various references) | |
Greek | χειροβομβίδα (grenade). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רמון (grenade, shell). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kézigránát (egg). (various references) | |
Italian | granata a mano (pineapple). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 手投'弾 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | てな' ". (various references) | |
Manx | grenaid laue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andhay enadegray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pequeno número de, granada de mão (grenadier, handgrip). (various references) | |
Romanian | grenadã (egg, grenade, pineapple). (various references) | |
Russian | ручная граната (hand-grenade, trench-bomb). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ručna bomba. (various references) | |
Spanish | granada de mano. (various references) | |
Swedish | handgranat. (various references) | |
Turkish | el bombası (grenade, pineapple). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ручна граната (bomb, pineapple), вогнегасник (extinguisher, grenade). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-g-h-n-n-r" | |
-3 letters: adherend, dangered, deranged, endanger, gadarene, gandered, gardened, hangared, hardedge, hardened, headgear, rehanged. | |
-4 letters: adhered, aneared, angered, degrade, derange, enraged, grandad, grandee, grenade, hennaed, redhead. | |
-5 letters: adhere, agenda, agreed, dander, danged, danger, darned, deaden, deader, deaned, denned, dharna, dragee, dredge, earned, endear, ennead, enrage, gadder, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, graded, handed, hangar, hanged, hanger, harden, headed, header, hedged, hedger, herded, neared, randan, ranged, redden, rehang, rended. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6E 64 47 72 65 6E 61 64 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000111 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100001 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n d   G r e n a d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006E 0064 0047 0072 0065 006E 0061 0064 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42678070241847180677071 |
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