Word Finder - fires

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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.

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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).

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We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.

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The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.

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

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The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.

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A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).

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The elements necessary to start a fire.

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The fire was laid and needed to be lit.

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The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.

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The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.

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Strength of passion, whether love or hate.

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Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.

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Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.

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A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.

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Red coloration in a piece of opal.

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To set (something, often a building) on fire.

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To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.

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If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.

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To drive away by setting a fire.

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To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).

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To shoot (a gun or analogous device).

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He fired his radar gun at passing cars.

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To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.

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Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

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• open fire
• shoot

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To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

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To cause an action potential in a cell.

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When a neuron fires, it transmits information.

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To forcibly direct (something).

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He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.

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(computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).

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The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.

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To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.

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to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge

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To animate; to give life or spirit to.

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to fire the genius of a young man

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To feed or serve the fire of.

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to fire a boiler

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To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

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To cauterize.

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To catch fire; to be kindled.

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To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

Fires at stations or involving injury to.

These opposed a national resistance to the Macedonians, the fires of which were fanned by the Brahmins, but still the strong arm of the western people prevailed.

Fires were visible on all sides.

The setting up, by a householder, of a set of three sacrificial fires of his own constitutes the first ceremony of the former class, the Agny-adhana (or (?) Agny-adheya).

Even the beggars outside the thick, bulletproof glass of the main gate were quiet, their small fires dark.

It sometimes fires on contact with strong sulphuric acid, especially when slightly warmed.

Underground fires may sometimes be .extinguished by direct attack with water.

Mine fires may sometimes be reached by bore-holes sunk for the purpose from the surface, and the burning workings below filled by flushing with culm and water.

Before the glass is introduced, the annealing kiln is heated to dull red by means of coal fires in grates which are provided at the ends or sides of the kiln for that purpose.

Great care is necessary to protect it from rain, and it must if necessary be placed in a barn in which fires may be required during wet weather.

There were two house fires last Saturday night, both attributed to leaving candles unguarded for the Indian festival of Diwali.

In flue curing, also known as the Virginian cure, fires are set outside the barn; and the heat led in iron pipes or flues, into the building are under the suspended tobacco, which is placed there quite fresh from the field.

The estates are usually very large, and are divided up into fields which are cultivated in rotation, each field being given several years' rest after producing one crop. The tobacco is air-cured, fires being only employed during continuous wet weather, and the process of curing occupies four or five weeks.

The glare of these seemed to the allies to betoken the familiar device of lighting fires previous to a retreat, and thus confirmed them in the impression which Napoleon's calculated timidity had given.

In the war of the Spanish Succession he would willingly have remained neutral, but found himself between two fires, forced first to recognize Philip V., then driven by the emperor to recognize the Archduke Charles.

Tribal traditions declare they migrated from the St Lawrence region together with the Ottawa and Potawatomi, with which tribes they formed a confederacy known as "The Three Fires."

Such sympathy with youthful hope, in union with industry and intelligence, shows that Comte's dry and austere manner veiled the fires of a generous social emotion.

When his ministry began its fires were slowly dying down, though the embers still glowed.

The earthquake occurred early in the morning of December 28, and so far as Messina was concerned the damage was done chiefly by the shock and by the fires which broke out afterwards; the seismic wave which followed was comparatively innocuous.

The town was given municipal privileges by Gustavus Adolphus in 1620, but is modern in appearance, having been rebuilt after fires in 1860 and 1865.

Coals richer in hydrogen, on the other hand, are more useful for burning in open fires - smiths' forges and furnaces - where a long flame is required.

Underground fires are not uncommon accidents in coal-mines.

They remained severely orthodox in the doctrines of the Fathers - the Trinity, the Incarnation, the plenary inspiration of the Bible - and they condemned those who rejected their teachings to a hell whose fires they were not tempted to extenuate.

Ordinary consciousness ignores these " latent fires "; ordinary discussion brings them to light and divides men into factions and parties over them; philosophy not because it denies but because it acknowledges the law of non-contradiction as supreme is pledged to seek a point of view from which they may be seen to be in essential harmony with one another as different sides of the same truth.

No evidence of smelting ores with fluxes is offered, but casting from metal melted in open fires is assumed.

Fires in 1719, 17 2 7 and 1814 destroyed the ancient buildings, and it is now a town built in modern style with wide and regular streets.

Prairie fires or spontaneous combustion have ignited many coal seams. Some have already burnt out; others still emit smoke and sulphurous fumes from the crevices in the hillsides, and through the fissures may be seen the glowing coal and rock.

The forests suffer great damage from fires, occasioned in part by the custom of burning up the grass every autumn, and in part by incendiarism.

According to Humboldt's theory there is a deep rent in the earth's crust about the 19th parallel through which at different periods the underground fires have broken at various points between the largest of this class, and has the town and port of Carmen at its western extremity.

In the valleys of some of these denuded slopes oak and pine are succeeding the tropical species where fires have given them a chance to get a good foothold.

Before the shrines reeking with the stench of slaughter the eternal fires were kept burning, and on the platform stood the huge drum, covered with snakes' skin, whose fearful sound was heard for miles.

The schools were extensive buildings attached to the temples, where from an early age boys and girls were taught by the priests to sweep the sanctuaries and keep up the sacred fires, to fast at proper seasons and draw blood for penance, and where they received moral teaching in long and verbose formulas.

It suffered much from fires and other disasters, and from 1846 onward was used as a barracks and a military hospital; it has now, however, been cleared out and restored.

Prairie fires, both of natural and artificial origin, are also a contributive cause; for young trees are exterminatedby fires, but annual plants soon reappear.

On the other hand, the lightning is not associated with him in literature or cult, and his connexion with volcanic fires is so close as to suggest that he was originally a volcano-god.

Among several churches in this quarter of the city is the cathedral (Gustavii Domkyrka), a cruciform church founded in 1633 and rebuilt after fires in 1742 and 1815.

When these fires occur while the trees are full of sap, a curious mucilaginous matter is exuded from the half-burnt stems; when dry it is of pale reddish colour, like some of the coarser kinds of gum-arabic, and is soluble in water, the solution resembling gumwater, in place of which it is sometimes used; considerable quantities are collected and sold as " Orenburg gum "; in Siberia and Russia it is occasionally employed as a semi-medicinal food, being esteemed an antiscorbutic. For burning in close stoves and furnaces, larch makes tolerably good fuel, its value being estimated by Hartig as only one-fifth less than that of beech; the charcoal is compact, and is in demand for iron-smelting and other metallurgic uses in some parts of Europe.

Though less superstitious than the Tahitians, the idolatry of the Sandwich Islanders was equally barbarous and sanguinary, as, in addition to the chief objects of worship included in the mythology of the other islands, the supernatural beings supposed to reside in the volcanoes and direct the action of subterranean fires rendered the gods objects of peculiar terror.

He therefore bought back the sheets, says Calamy, for an old song, bound them and sold them in his own shop. This in turn was complained of, and he had to beg pardon on his knees before the council-table; and the remaining copies were sentenced to be "bisked," or rubbed over with an inky brush, and sent back to the kitchen for lighting fires.

Thus the Church beyond the Danube, which had not been extinguished on Ulfilas's withdrawal, began to grow once more, and once more had to undergo the fires of persecution.

Some believers, he taught, may pass through purgatorial fires; and this middle class may be helped by the sacraments and the alms of the living.

Care should be taken to allow sufficient room to properly manipulate the fires and to store fuel.

The management of the furnaces is relatively easy, and consists in adapting the volume and intensity of the fires to particular needs.

It involves the keeping clean of flues, ashpits and especially the fires themselves.

Where coke or ordinary hard coal are used, the removal of clinkers should be done systematically, and the fires stirred.

Anthracite coal fires should not be stirred more than is absolutely necessary, and should not be fed in driblets.

They require more draught than coke fires, but care must be taken not to give too much, as excessive heat is likely to melt or soften the fire-bars.

A moist genial atmosphere too is essential, a point requiring unremitting attention on account of the necessity of keeping up strong fires.

Where the walls are heated, assist the maturing of peaches and nectarines, and the ripening of the young wood for next year, by fires during the day.

Sow a few kidney beans for an early forced crop. Expel damp, and assist the ripening of late grapes and peaches with fires during the day.