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Direct Fire

Definition: Direct Fire

Direct Fire

Noun

1. Fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Direct Fire

DomainDefinitions

Military

Fire directed at a target which is visible to the aimer. See also fire. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Direct Fire

English words defined with "direct fire": broil, broilingFlank defensegrilling. (references)
Specialty definitions using "direct fire": alarm-signal operator, ANTITANK ASSAULT GUNNER, ASSIGNMENT EDITORBATTALION CHIEFcease engagement, centralized control, CIVIL PREPAREDNESS TRAINING OFFICER, Computing Devices Canada Ltd., consequential lossdecentralized control, direct attack, drop-board operator, dx board operatorFIRE ASSISTANT, fire beater, fire broom, fire deputy, fire flail, fire swatter, fire-control assistant, fireflapperHIGH-DENSITY FINISHING OPERATORINFANTRY WEAPONS CREWMEMBERJudicium DeiMANAGER, TEXTILE CONVERSION, move-upoperator, circuit, operator, direct wireprotection chief, industrial plant, PROTECTIVE-SIGNAL OPERATORsecurity manager, signal timer, SUPERINTENDENT, PLANT PROTECTIONTROUBLE SHOOTER IIweather forecaste. (references)

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Use in Literature: Direct Fire

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

The kettle rattled over the direct fire, rattled and wheezed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Direct Fire

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

IDF Open-Fire Regulations state that in apprehending a fleeing suspect, soldiers are to direct fire at the suspect's legs only. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Direct Fire

Expressions using "direct fire": direct fire battery direct fire target direct fire weapon. Additional references.

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Modern Translations: Direct Fire

Language Translations for "direct fire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

tir direct. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

közvetlen tûz, közvetlen irányzású tûz. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

直接照準射' , 直射 (direct rays, frontal fire). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょくしゃ (direct rays, frontal fire), ちょくせつしょうじゅ"しゃ'き. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irectday irefay

   

Russian 

  

стрельба прямой наводкой (direct laying fire), огонь (devouring element, direct laying fire, fire, light, lights, live wire). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neposredna vatra. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Direct Fire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-i-r-r-t"

-1 letter: certified, certifier, rectified, rectifier, terrified.

-2 letters: dieretic, directer, driftier, ferritic, feticide, redirect, terrific.

-3 letters: decrier, deficit, deifier, dictier, dirtier, drifter, edifice, edifier, eidetic, ferried, ferrite, fiercer, fierier, recited, reciter, refired, refried, reified, reifier, retired, retried, tierced, tireder.

-4 letters: cerite, citied, credit, deceit, defect, defier, defter, deicer, deific, dicier, dieter, direct, feirie, ferret, ferric, fierce.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-f-i-i-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: recertified.

 

+2 letters: precertified.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Direct Fire


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 72 65 63 74      46 69 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0072 0065 0063 0074      0046 0069 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387584716986240758471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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