big bang
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- noun
- /bɪɡ bæŋ/
- Specialized
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Big Bang
- It's moments after The Big Bang and wow, you're still reeling.
- Big Bang theory
- Big Bang cosmology
- Big Bang universe
So if you go right before The Big Bang, would you be seeing stuff?
- So if you go right before The Big Bang, would you be seeing stuff?
- It's actually very poorly named because The Big Bang was neither big nor a bang.
- And they point to this this time in the deep past, The Big Bang when everything started.
- He he said that it's like going to before The Big Bang.
- The theist stops with God, the atheist stops with The Big Bang or the laws of physics.
- So my crazy idea is The Big Bang and a remote future.
- By the way, did The Big Bang make me do this video?
Examples
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We have another creation story that talks about The Big Bang and evolution.
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The theory of the big bang explains how the cosmos has been expanding ever since its formation.
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The universe began with a big bang.
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What if all the dark matter during the first few minutes after the big bang had been dark ordinary matter?
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God created the universe via the big bang; everything happened and was set into motion.
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In short, the big-bang theory is alive and well!
Academic text (2002) -
We don't understand how The Big Bang came to exist.
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First, there was a big bang, and then that's how all the stars were made, and everything else was made from the stars, trees and plants and animals and water and people too.
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The universe began with a big bang that marked the start of its expansion.
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Scientists believe that everything we see now originated from the big bang billions of years ago.
Synonyms
The origin of the universe and how space and time began
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a loud, sudden explosion or noise' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'big' (large/intense) with 'bang' (a sharp sudden noise), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer this sense. The adjective+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistically predictable pattern (note: the cosmological proper noun 'Big Bang' is a separate usage but does not affect the transparency of the literal noise sense).
Etymology
Big bang comes from the image of one huge explosion—a single big bang—that sent out all matter and began space and time, and that picture is why the phrase means 'the origin of the universe'.