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Alternative form of add fuel to the fire. [Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see add, fuel, fire.]
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(electrical engineering) An explosion produced by the extreme heat of an uncontrolled high-energy electric arc.
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Alternative spelling of backburn [A controlled fire, lit in the path of a wildfire, in order to deprive it of combustible material.]
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Alternative spelling of backburn [A controlled fire, lit in the path of a wildfire, in order to deprive it of combustible material.]
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To light a fire for this reason.
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(obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
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(historical) The Great Fire of 1910, a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that burned three million acres in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British Columbia, in the summer of 1910.
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A fire set in a rubbish bin or trash can, often as an accident or as vandalism.
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The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
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Obsolete spelling of bonfire [A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.]
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(ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
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(ceramics) The act of firing pottery using a bonfire.
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A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.
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(dialectal, Northern England) To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.
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(US, military) An open-air pit where waste is burned. Long-term exposure to its smoke is associated with health problems.
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(slang) An elaborate piece of graffiti.
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Alternative form of cacafuego [A spitfire.]
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A small glass bubble, filled with water, which, if placed in the flame of a candle, bursts by expansion of steam.
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A bushfire or forest fire occurring during the period in which global temperatures have risen due to climate change.
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To fire (different types of fuel) together.
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A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
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A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
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To cook food by sealing it in a pot (to prevent loss of moisture) and steaming that pot; to cook using the double steaming method found in Chinese cuisine.
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(especially Australia) A large collection of burning bushfire embers carried on the wind, commonly causing the fire to spread or new fires to start.
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A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
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Alternative spelling of fire-breathing [(of a fabled animal, such as a dragon) That shoots fire from the mouth or nostrils]
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Alternative form of fire-eater [A performer who pretends to swallow fire.]
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The act of putting fire into one's mouth and extinguishing it.
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A whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires.
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Alternative form of fire-worship [The worship of fire or of a fire god or goddess.]
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(US politics) Alternative form of fire-eater (“extreme partisan for the South before the US Civil War”) [A performer who pretends to swallow fire.]
adj
(archaic) Fresh from the forge; brand-new.
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Alternative form of fire whirl [A whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires.]
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A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion.
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(obsolete) A beacon or lighthouse
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(figuratively) An argumentative troublemaker or revolutionary; one who agitates against the status quo.
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The activity of creating firebreaks.
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(slang) a pyromaniac or arsonist.
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(mining) An inflammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air.
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Alternative form of fire devil [Synonym of fire whirl]
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(figuratively, poetic) A worker at a furnace or fire
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Alternative form of fire-fang [(agriculture, transitive) To cause (manure) to lose its goodness and acquire an ashy hue because of the heat generated by decomposition.]
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A fire whirl (a whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires, similar in appearance to a tornado made out of fire).
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The setting of fires; arson.
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To walk barefoot over burning embers.
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Alternative form of fire whirl [A whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires.]
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Alternative form of fire-worship [The worship of fire or of a fire god or goddess.]
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(Australia, colloquial) A firefighter.
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A service discipline for a queue in which the order of service is random.
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(obsolete) A conflagration.
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Alternative spelling of flambé [To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.]
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A burning torch, especially one carried in procession.
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Alternative spelling of flambé [To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.]
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To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
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(oil industry) A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
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The near simultaneous ignition of all combustible material in an enclosed area.
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A fire, often large, that consumes a forest or woodland.
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Alternative form of foxfire [(mycology, chiefly US) Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood.]
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To have the intended effect.
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A fire burning over grass or grassland.
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(rare) The fire that burns in a hearth.
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A fireship designed to explode devastatingly.
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(countable) A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.
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(Hong Kong) Synonym of forest fire
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(informal) hot laboratory
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(rare) A structure carrying fire or a molten or fiery substance.
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Alternative form of incendigel [(military) A mixture of petrol, benzene and polystyrene, used like napalm.]
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A large fire; a conflagration.
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(idiomatic, colloquial) To maintain daily routine and provide the necessities of life in a home or community.
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(obsolete, idiomatic) Something, such as a person or event, that initiates events or incites a response.
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Alternative form of lean-burn. [Of or relating to the burning of fuel with an excess of air in an internal combustion engine.]
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(paganism) A ritual fire created by friction.
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A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
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Alternative form of paleofire [An ancient (wild) fire]
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Convection caused or intensified by a fire.
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An arsonist who sets fire to hayricks.
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A diagnostic tool that blows smoke through pipes or channels.
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(slang) A blowtorch, usually an acetylene torch.
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A cooking fire with a spit over it.
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Any of a class of explosives that are stoichiometric mixtures of strong oxidizers and reactive fuels, mixed just prior to use.
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(transitive) To fit with automatic sprinklers for fire prevention.
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(intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.
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(obsolete) Alcoholic liquor.
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Explosive powder used for blasting tree stumps when clearing land.
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(dated) A circle or cluster of gas burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.
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(stone) To create a rough finish on stone by treating it with a high-temperature blow-torch.
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Alternative form of tire fire [(chiefly US, idiomatic, usually sports) A disaster; a chaotic person, thing, or situation.]
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To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).
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Fire resulting from trash burning.
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(intransitive) To burn fuel at less than the desired level, thus not providing heat efficiently.
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(obsolete) Will o' the wisp
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A propane torch designed to destroy weeds in paving and similar locations.
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(historical) Greek fire, Byzantine fire.
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