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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fire First Non, Monsieur, nous ne tirons jamais les premiers. According to tradition, this was said by the Count D'Auteroches to Lord Charles Hay at the battle of Fontenoy, 30th April, 1745 (old style). "On c'était de tradition dans l'armée; on laissait toujours par courtoisie, l'avantage du premier feu à l'ennemi." (See Notes and Queries, 29th October, 1892, p. 345.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
antasy fire first introduce proud sal style | 8 |
fire first | 5 |
aide fire first | 3 |
aid ant bite fire first | 3 |
aid fire first safety | 3 |
fire first gear truck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-i-i-r-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: fifties, iffiest, stiffer. | |
-3 letters: fifers, firers, friers, iffier, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, strife, triers. | |
-4 letters: feist, fiefs, fifer, fifes, firer, fires, first, frets, frier, fries, frise, frits, refit, reifs, rifer, riffs, rifts, riser, rites, serif, stiff, teffs, tiers, tiffs, tires, trier, tries. | |
-5 letters: effs, efts, errs, erst, fets, fief, fife, fire, firs, fist, fits. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-i-i-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fortifiers. | |
+2 letters: refortifies. | |
+3 letters: firefighters. | |
+5 letters: reaffirmations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 52 45      46 49 52 53 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01010010 01010011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I R E   F I R S T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0052 0045      0046 0049 0052 0053 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4043523924043525354 |
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