napalm
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Formed from na(phthenic) palm(itic) acid, the two original components of the substance.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.pɑːm/, /ˈneɪ.pɑlm/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]napalm (usually uncountable, plural napalms)
- A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare as an incendiary especially in wooded areas. [1942[1]]
- 2013 April 1, Robert M. Neer, “PARIAH”, in Napalm: An American Biography[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 140:
- A trio of needle-nosed silver Phantom jets descended from the clouds and dropped a colossal load of napalm on the jungle. Flames turned the screen red and orange. Silence followed.
“You smell that?” Kilgore said, almost to himself. Then, louder, “You smell that?” Lance, the champion surfer, asked “What?” Kilgore, lit by the glow of burning trees, retorted, “Napalm, son—nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for 12 hours, and when it was all over I walked up; we didn’t find one of ’em … not one stinking dink body. But the smell—you know, that gasoline smell—the whole hill—it smelled like … victory.”
- (figurative) Anything very incendiary; dynamite.
- When leaked, the controversial documents proved to be political napalm.
- sexual napalm
Translations
[edit]flammable substance
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Verb
[edit]napalm (third-person singular simple present napalms, present participle napalming, simple past and past participle napalmed)
- (transitive) To spray or attack with napalm. [1950[1]]
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “napalm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]napalm m or n (uncountable)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]napalm on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]napalm
Declension
[edit]Inflection of napalm (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | napalm | napalmit | |
genitive | napalmin | napalmien | |
partitive | napalmia | napalmeja | |
illative | napalmiin | napalmeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | napalm | napalmit | |
accusative | nom. | napalm | napalmit |
gen. | napalmin | ||
genitive | napalmin | napalmien | |
partitive | napalmia | napalmeja | |
inessive | napalmissa | napalmeissa | |
elative | napalmista | napalmeista | |
illative | napalmiin | napalmeihin | |
adessive | napalmilla | napalmeilla | |
ablative | napalmilta | napalmeilta | |
allative | napalmille | napalmeille | |
essive | napalmina | napalmeina | |
translative | napalmiksi | napalmeiksi | |
abessive | napalmitta | napalmeitta | |
instructive | — | napalmein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “napalm”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]napalm m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “napalm”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]napalm m (plural napalms)
- napalm (inflammable, viscous substance used in warfare)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]napalm n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of napalm (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) napalm | napalmul |
genitive/dative | (unui) napalm | napalmului |
vocative | napalmule |
Serbo-Croatian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nàpalm m (Cyrillic spelling на̀палм)
Declension
[edit]Declension of napalm
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]napalm m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “napalm”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]napalm c
Declension
[edit]Declension of napalm | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | napalm | napalmen | — | — |
Genitive | napalms | napalmens | — | — |
References
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: na‧palm
Noun
[edit]napalm (definite accusative napalmı, plural napalmlar)
References
[edit]- “napalm”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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