Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to brisance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or pertaining to brisance.
- adj. having the ability to shatter, as contrasted with merely fracturing; -- of explosives.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to the power (the shattering effect) of an explosive
Examples
“C'est alors que je glisse sur du lait et tombe me brisant un genou et le gars me fout une grosse balle dans la tete!!”
“This encyclopedia entry says RDX "is considered the most powerful and brisant of the military high explosives.”
“ANNM ANNM (ammonium nitrate nitromethane) is a very powerful and sensitive binary explosive that holds more power and is more brisant than any commonly available commercial explosive (with the exception of PETN in detonators and det. cord).”
“The Brezon -- _brisant_, breaking wave -- he took as type of the billowy form of limestone Alps in general, and his analysis of it was serviceable and substantially correct.”
“Broad-spectrum marketing will attract readers for whom having to look up "cathected" or "brisant" isn't just an irritant but a moral affront.”
“Le Tribunal de grande instance de Casablanca peut faire l’Histoire en brisant cette série de jugements arbitraires.”
“1 This explosive flour is more powerful and brisant than TNT and is easiest to detonate in its powdered form.”
Explosives for Fun and Pleasure, Uploaded by Shadow Knight (Has Anarchy Messages Around It)
“The Brezon ” brisant, breaking wave ” he took as type of the billowy form of limestone Alps in general, and his analysis of it was serviceable and substantially correct.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brisant’.
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webst...
Many of these words first came into common usage during World War I, and reflect not only the technological and scientific leaps of the early part of the 20th century, but the new experience of glo...
abri, ace, acidosis, airdrome, air fleet, airplane, air raid, airworthy, altimeter, anaphylaxis, anociassociation, anti-aircraft and 292 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Jim Takchess List
Tweets
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takchess http://books.google.com/books?id=b9BCMdEHYYQC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=brisant+flatulence&source=bl&ots=HEztpRT3HY&sig=cDyDiyxvlyLcx8scVsSa2SU4syA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dpE-T-v6GKTniALQvMTPAQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=brisant%20flatulence&f=false
Brisant Flatulence Colin Whitehead's Zone One Feb 17, 2012