Salamander

Definitions

1. A long, slender, chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata, superficially resembling a lizard.
   countable, uncountable
2. A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being of fire.
   countable, uncountable
3. A metal utensil with a flat head which is heated and put over a dish to brown the top.
   countable, uncountable
4. A small broiler (North America) or grill (Britain) that heats the food from above, used in professional cookery primarily for browning.
   countable, uncountable
5. A pouched gopher (Geomys pinetis etc.)
   archaic, countable, uncountable
6. A large poker.
   UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
   uncountable
8. A portable stove used to heat or dry buildings under construction.
   countable, uncountable
9. A fire-eater (performer who pretends to swallow fire).
   UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

38 more languages

العربيةالسمندرسَمَنْدَل

Българскидъждовниксалама́ндър

Bosanskidaždevnjaksalamandarдаждевњаксаламандар+ 1 more

Catalàsalamandra

Češtinamločímloksalamandr

Cymraegsalamandr

Ελληνικάσαλαμάνδρα

Esperantosalamandro

فارسیسمندر

Suomipyrstösammakkosalamanterisalamanterieläin

Gaeilgesalamandar

Gàidhligloisgeansalamandar

Galegopezoñapintapíntegasabanduxasacabeirasalamántigasapagueirasaramagantaurodelo+ 6 more

Hrvatskidaždevnjaksalamandarдаждевњаксаламандар+ 1 more

Magyarszalamandra

Հայերենսալամանդր

Bahasa Indonesiasalamander

Italianosalamandra

日本語サラマンダー井守山椒魚蠑螈鯢+ 2 more

ქართულისალამანდრა

한국어鯢도롱뇽영원

Latinasalamandra

Lietuviųgonys

Latviešusalamandra

Македонскидо́ждовниксаламандер

Bahasa Melayusemandar

Nederlandssalamander

Polskisalamandra

Portuguêssalamandra

Românăsalamandră

Русскийсаламандра

Slovenščinamočerad

Српскиdaždevnjaksalamandarдаждевњаксаламандар+ 1 more

Svenskasalamander

ไทยซาลาแมนเดอร์

Türkçesemender

Українськасаламандра

Tiếng Việtcá cóckì giông

Examples

“[…]and most plainly Pierius, whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these: "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire, we have⟳ found by experience⟳ that it is so far from quenching hot coals, that it dyeth immediately therein."”

“Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies.[…]The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.”

““Not a chance, Ranger,” Bob Mason was speaking. “This little cuss is a salamander. He's been travelling through fire all day and there isn't a blister on him. …””

“"There is a vulgar error," says the author of the Brief Natural History, p. 91, "that a salamander lives in the fire. Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion; and Mathiolus, in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides, a very famous physician, affirms of them, that by casting of many a salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false. The same experiment⟳ is likewise avouched by Joubertus."”

“The salamander, a fairly long metal utensil with a flat rounded head, was left in the fire until red hot and then used to brown the top of a dish without further cooking.”

“The chef first put⟳ the steak under the salamander to sear the outside.”

“Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have⟳ the heat source above the food[…]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.”

“Multitudes had little Tin Kettles in their Houses, with Small-coal kindled, to light⟳ their Pipes withal; though in some places they use⟳ Candles, in others Salamanders”

“Salamander tapping is done at the salamander base⟳, which is the bottom-most level of the liquid pool in a blast furnace hearth. A high degree of precision is required to tap the salamander base⟳ effectively”

“The necessary fires alone — the salamanders and tinner's pots — had caused dozens of small blazes.”

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