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# dynamite

«dynamite» in Mova's school dictionary: **A powerful explosive made in sticks, used to blast rock…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dynamite, uncountable); verb (dynamite, dynamites, dynamited, dynamiting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A powerful explosive made in sticks, used to blast rock in mines and building work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#m1)

2) (verb) To blow something up with dynamite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#m2)

3) (informal) Something or someone very exciting, powerful or likely to cause big trouble, as in «That news is dynamite». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and science: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867 and later left his money to start the Nobel Prizes. Safety: explosives are dangerous and only trained experts handle them. In cartoons, a red stick of dynamite with a fizzing fuse is a classic joke. In slang, «dynamite» means amazing.

### examples

- Miners used dynamite to blast the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#x1)
- Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#x2)
- The old bridge was dynamited to make way for a new one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#x3)
- That singer's voice is dynamite! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#x4)
- In the cartoon, the coyote's dynamite blew up in his face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#x5)
- The secret was political dynamite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «some dynamite», «a stick of dynamite». From Greek «dynamis», power — like «dynamic» and «dynamo».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dynamite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dynamite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.