English Dictionary

nuke

/njuːk/

noun

A nuclear weapon. / (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale. / A nuclear power station.

The country developed a powerful nuke to deter its enemies.

意味（1）

A nuclear weapon.

Mini-nukes are among the active unresolved nuclear issues in NATO at the moment, according to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff report. […] Mini-nukes, the report said, are the new generation of tactical nuclear weapons which combine low and variable yield possibilities with enhanced radiation characteristics and which could be used with artillery and laser-guided or other 'smart' bombs.

意味（2）

(by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.

意味（3）

A nuclear power station.

Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.

意味（4）

(nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.

A nuke [nuclear submarine] can't survive with one flooded compartment. Any compartment that floods is going to kill you. Okay? Now, that's an acceptable risk because the nuclear hull is made of better steel. If a surface ship hits a nuclear submarine, the surface ship is going to sink, which we've demonstrated again and again. … In a nuke you come to periscope depth once a day, every two days.

意味（5）

A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.

But nowhere in our military services is there a more highly trained, more qualified group of officers than the Navy's nuclear power officers – Navy nukes. The responsibilities the Navy's 4,300 nukes have to assume – procuring, testing, operating, and maintaining our nuclear-powered fleet – require a much deeper level of understanding than is necessary in the other services.

意味（6）

(warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).

A nuke based on non existent rules or made up reasons can be undone – this is called and un-nuke.

意味（7）

(rare) A microwave oven.

Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and it will be ready to eat.