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FIRE FIRST

Specialty Definition: FIRE FIRST

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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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FIRE FIRST

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Anagrams: FIRE FIRST

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.

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Alternative Orthography: FIRE FIRST


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

46 49 52 45      46 49 52 53 54

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

    

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

01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01010010 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#82 &#83 &#84

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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