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bursts

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for bursts.

Editorial note

Part of the problem is games today aren't designed to be played in short bursts.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

An act or instance of bursting.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bursts gathered in one view.

noun

An act or instance of bursting.

noun

A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.

noun

A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bursts.

noun

An act or instance of bursting.

noun

A sudden, often intense, expression, manifestation or display.

noun

A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.

verb

(intransitive) To break from internal pressure.

Example sentences

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Part of the problem is games today aren't designed to be played in short bursts.

2

I find a regular general news weekly such as The Economist is good too, and more measured than daily news bursts.

3

They use small bursts of near full throttle power to move air across the (oversized) flight control surfaces.

4

> Part of the problem is games today aren't designed to be played in short bursts.

5

They aren't afraid of our nuclear weapons, but why let us live to develop gamma ray bursts?

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Even when it can fire its gun, it will only have ammo for 4 seconds of firing (2 bursts)[3].

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When the VC bubble bursts, the majority of them are going to go up in smoke.

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You could have a buffer of packets that empties at random intervals, so you couldn't link the radio bursts together.

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Kinda of related, but not the same use-case it seems activated bursts versus my passive running.

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On a side note it would be an interesting data compression challenge to compress bursts of raw frames using video compression techniques.

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Just like people who are overly confident will be taken to town by short sellers if there's a bubble and it bursts.

12

That is the difference between employees and entrepreneurs when the bubble bursts.

Quote examples

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In a Souls game the "story" is not fed to you in bursts of out-of-place exposition but instead is found in the layout of the environment, the description of items, and the types and placement of certain enemies.

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Troubling fact is there's a lot of people doing this, our household debt ratio is much higher than those prior to the subprime mortgage crisis (people in denial saying "but there's no bubble in Vancouver, we are different.") There's a lot of people that's going to be ruined when the bubble bursts and they suddenly can't make a payment or they are out of a job due to the impact it will have on Vancouver's economy.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bursts in a sentence?

Part of the problem is games today aren't designed to be played in short bursts.

What does bursts mean?

An act or instance of bursting.

What part of speech is bursts?

bursts is commonly used as noun, verb.