Meaning of fire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
   uncountable
2. A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering
3. Acronym of financial independence and retire early.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
4. Acronym of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): a non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the aim of protecting free speech rights on college campuses in the United States.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
5. An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
   countable
6. An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire)
7. fire! (cry to order soldiers to start shooting)
8. Acronym of finance, insurance and real estate, a class of businesses.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
9. To start to talk or ask questions.
10. The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
    countable
11. The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger
12. Being attacked from two sources or sides simultaneously.
13. The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
    uncountable
14. The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy
15. To urge or goad to action.
16. A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire)
17. A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
    British, countable
18. a person who destroys property by fire, for revenge, insurance, etc.
19. The elements necessary to start a fire.
    countable
20. Obsolete, a large-scale fire or conflagration.
    Obsolete,
21. The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
    uncountable
22. the deliberate destruction of property by fire; arson. — incendiary, n., adj.
23. A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
    countable
24. Obsolete Chemistry. a hypothetical ingredient thought to be released during combustion. — phlogistic, adj.
25. A firearm.
    countable, slang
26. Geology. produced by the action of heat, hot solutions, etc. — pyrogenic, adj.
27. A barrage, volley
    countable, figuratively
28. the process of burning designs on wood or leather with a heated tool. — pyrograph, pyrographer, n. — pyrographic, adj.
29. An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
    countable, uncountable
30. a fire-worshiper.
31. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
    countable, uncountable
32. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
    countable, uncountable
33. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
    countable, uncountable
34. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
    countable, uncountable
35. Red coloration in a piece of opal.
    countable, uncountable
36. The capacity of a gemstone, especially a faceted, cut gemstone, that is transparent to visible light, to disperse white light into its multispectral component parts, resulting in a flash of different colors, the richness and dispersion of which increases the gemstone's value.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.”

“We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.”

“There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.”

“During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.”

“Efforts to fight the fires in New South Wales and Victoria were hampered as large fires converged and created their own violent weather systems. The fire created dry lightning storms so severe that planes had to be grounded.”

“The fire was laid and needed to be lit.”

“The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.”

“We dominated the battlespace with our fires.”

“I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below”

“In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf [...] is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.”

“static fire”

“He had fire in his temper.”

“You call it hope—that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire: […]”

“And bless their critic with a poet's fire.”

“Attendance of QN meetings has been dwindling, and the creative fire drained from the organization by the dead hand of wannabe bureaucrats bend ^([sic]) on thought control. The action has long since been elsewhere.”

“Stars, hide your fires.”

“As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.”

“In other words, the more times a light ray reflects within a diamond, the greater the separation of the spectral colors—and the more obvious the appearance of fire—will be. Fire in a gemstone is best defined as "the visible extent of light dispersed into spectral colors" (Reinitz et al., 2001). In a polished diamond, this is seen as flares or flashes of color that appear and disappear as the diamond, the observer, or the light source moves.”

“As Figure 2.1 demonstrates, total income acquired by the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector has been increasing since the early 1980s. While in the 1952–1980 period, the share of national income that went to the FIRE sector hovered between 12 and 14 percent, by the 2000s it had approached 20 percent.”

““President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement.”

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