fire hose

Definitions

1. A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.
2. Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).
   idiomatic
3. A feed of all updates to a website.
4. A human penis.
   colloquial, idiomatic
5. An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.

Equivalents

13 more languages

العربيةخُرْطُوم حَرِيق

Danskbrandslange

Suomipaloletku

Gaeilgepíobán dóiteáin

Italianomanichetta antincendio

日本語消防ホース

한국어소방호스

Nederlandsbrandslangbrandspuit

Polskipowódźsikawka

Portuguêsmangueira de incêndio

Русскийбрандспойтпожа́рный рука́впожа́рный шланг

Svenskabrandslang

Türkçeyangın hortumu

Examples

“Although the subway structure⟳ is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided.”

“She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.”

“Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)”

“This is cool because, even though the YouTube firehose is on full blast, you only need⟳ an instance of the feed⟳ and from that firehose, you can filter out what you need⟳ for alerts for as many keywords as you like⟳.”

“However, it is worth bearing in mind⟳ that even those services with access to the Twitter 'firehose' (direct⟳ API) do not have⟳ anything even approaching a complete⟳ Twitter archive.”

“Here we will briefly consider⟳ web crawlers, webscraping software, data feeds (RSS and other feeds, firehoses etc), human cutting and pasting, panels, MROCs, Netnography, and text analytics.”

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