He held a small detonator in his hand.
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Detonator
Synonyms for "detonator" (8 found)
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40 translations across 26 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- detonador noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Belarusian
1 entries- дэтана́тар noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Bulgarian
2 entries- детона́тор noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- запалка noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Catalan
1 entries- detonador noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 雷管 noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- 響墩 /响墩 noun (rail transport: small explosive warning device)
Czech
3 entries- detonátor noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- rozbuška noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- třaskavka noun (rail transport: small explosive warning device)
Danish
1 entries- detonator noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Dutch
2 entries- detonator noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- ontsteker noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Finnish
1 entries- sytytin noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
French
2 entries- capsule fulminante noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- détonateur noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Galician
1 entries- detonador noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
German
1 entries- Zünder noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Hindi
1 entries- विस्फोटक noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Hungarian
4 entries- detonátor noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- gyutacs noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- gyújtó noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- gyújtószerkezet noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Italian
1 entries- detonatore noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Japanese
1 entries- 雷管 noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Korean
1 entries- 뇌관 noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Polish
1 entries- detonator noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Portuguese
1 entries- detonador noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Romanian
1 entries- detonator noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Russian
4 entries- детона́тор noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- железнодоро́жная пета́рда noun (rail transport: small explosive warning device)
- запа́л noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- ка́псюль-детона́тор noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Spanish
1 entries- detonador noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Swedish
1 entries- detonator noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Tagalog
1 entries- pandiklap noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Turkish
1 entries- fünye noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Ukrainian
2 entries- детона́тор noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
- підривни́к noun (device used to detonate an explosive device)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The Bomb Squad could not find the detonator.
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William and Sandra started fighting over the detonator.
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William threw the detonator away.
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