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The very word "bombard" comes from the Greek bombos, meaning the buzzing of a bee.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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The bombos medallion powers up the Master Sword with the abilty to create a circle of flames while the Ether medallion freezes all the enemies on the screen.
Zelda Medallion Papercrafts | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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A few of them are directly imitative, as for example the omega in oon, which represents the round form of the egg by the figure of the mouth: or bronte (thunder), in which the fulness of the sound of the word corresponds to the thing signified by it; or bombos (buzzing), of which the first syllable, as in its English equivalent, has the meaning of
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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The earliest undisputed description of the condition comes from Hippocrates, who used three words to describe the problem: echos, meaning sound; bombos, denoting buzzing; and psophos, indicating a slight sound.
The New Yorker 2009
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