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Definition: PYRO |
PYRONoun1. Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pyro is a mutant in the Marvel Universe. His real name is John Allerdyce. Born in Sydney, Australia, his mutant powers emerged in his teens, but he could not think of a practical way to use them. Pyro's power is the ability to manipulate any flame within a certain radius by forming it into any shape he desires, or increasing or decreasing its heat, intensity or size. His only limitation is that he cannot actually create fire - in the comic books he often carries a flamethrower into battle, in the movie a young Pyro is shown always in the posession of a lighter. Pyro cannot be burned by any fire he is controlling, but if he turns his attention from it it will revert back to normal flames and can harm him. Pyro's firey "creatures" have a greater solidity than normal flame, so a giant flame "bird" that Pyro created would be able to pick up something and carry it in it's talons.In Australia, Pyro met the mutant Mystique, who later recruited him to be a part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He has served in this team under several leaders, including the Toad, but not under Magneto, its original leader.
Recently, Pyro contracted the Legacy Virus, a fatal disease only mutants can get. He has perpetrated several crimes in attempts to find a cure, but has yet to be sucessful. He died just after saving Senator Kelly's life (who was shot soon after anyway).
He was played by Aaron Stanford in the X-Men movies.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pyro (comics)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
pyro | English | Pyrotechnic | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pain's Pyro Spectacle, Japan & China. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Pyro textures" by Sineboy@bellsouth.net Commentary: ""having fun with things on fire"." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "PYRO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "PYRO" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "PYRO": pyro-electricity, pyro-phosphate. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pyro | 288 | pyro supply | 9 |
man pyro x | 75 | pyro platinum dv | 8 |
icon pyro | 53 | pyro platinumdv | 7 |
cakewalk pyro | 51 | firework pyro united | 7 |
ads pyro | 37 | pyro platinum | 7 |
tz 1 pyro | 22 | iceman pyro | 6 |
shoei tz 1 pyro | 21 | pyro firewire | 6 |
cakewalk pyro 2003 | 15 | pyro technics | 6 |
a v link pyro | 14 | princess pyro | 6 |
pyro chem | 12 | from man pyro x | 6 |
pyro x2 | 12 | ads link pyro v | 6 |
evolution man pyro x | 11 | 1394 ads cam pyro web | 6 |
pyro xmen | 11 | paradise pyro | 6 |
pyro studio | 10 | pyro av link | 5 |
pyro uss | 10 | pyro web cam | 5 |
pyro 1394 | 9 | 2003 pyro | 5 |
aaron pyro stanford | 9 | pyro williams | 5 |
2 man pyro x | 9 | man pic pyro x | 5 |
buddy icon pyro | 9 | pyro stage | 5 |
pic pyro | 9 | pyro spectacular | 5 |
picture pyro | 9 | man picture pyro x | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "PYRO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | piro- (pyro-). (various references) | |
Dutch | pyro-elektriciteit (pyro-electricity). (various references) | |
French | pyroélectricité (pyro-electricity), traitement pyro-hydrométallurgique (pyro-hydrometallurgical treatment). (various references) | |
German | pyro-hydrometallurgische Behandlung (pyro-hydrometallurgical treatment). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pirogallussav, pirogallol, piro- (pyro-), tűz (firing, kick, light, snap, stuck, to bill, to pin, to prick, to stick, to stitch, to zap). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 高熱 (high fever, pyro-). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こうねつ (high fever, light and heat, pyro-, yellow fever). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yropay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | piroeletricidade (pyro-electricity). (various references) | |
Russian | пироэлектричество (pyro-electricity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | piro-elektrika (pyro-electricity). (various references) | |
Swedish | pyroelektricitet (pyro-electricity). (various references) | |
Turkish | sıcaklık (fervor, fervour, heat, pyro-, temperature, warmth), ateş (blaze, fever, fire, flush, heat, mettle, pyro-, temperature), ısı (caloric, heat, pyro-, thermo-, warmth). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PYRO": pyrocatechol, pyrocatechols, pyroclastic, pyroelectric, pyroelectricities, pyroelectricity, pyrogallol, pyrogallols, pyrogen, pyrogenic, pyrogenicities, pyrogenicity, pyrogens, pyrola, pyrolas, pyrolize, pyrolized, pyrolizes, pyrolizing, pyrologies, pyrology, pyrolusite, pyrolusites, pyrolysate, pyrolysates, pyrolyses, pyrolysis, pyrolytic, pyrolytically, pyrolyzable, pyrolyzate, pyrolyzates, pyrolyze, pyrolyzed, pyrolyzer, pyrolyzers, pyrolyzes, pyrolyzing, pyromancies, pyromancy, pyromania, pyromaniac, pyromaniacal, pyromaniacs, pyromanias, pyrometallurgical, pyrometallurgies, pyrometallurgy, pyrometer, pyrometers, pyrometric. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PYRO": papyrologies, papyrologist, papyrologists, papyrology. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ropy. | |
| Words within the letters "o-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: pro, pry. | |
-2 letters: op, or, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "o-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: payor, porgy, porky, porny, prosy, proxy, ropey, roupy. | |
+2 letters: croupy, crypto, droopy, dropsy, mopery, osprey, parody, payors, peroxy, poetry, poorly, popery, portly, priory, propyl, protyl, pylori, pyrola, pyrone, pyrope, pyrrol, recopy, ropery, ropily, sporty, trophy, vapory. | |
+3 letters: atrophy, charpoy, coopery, coppery, cryptos, entropy, foppery, gryphon, hydrops, hyperon, kouprey, krypton, leprosy, orphrey, ospreys, outpray, overpay, overply, paronym, parroty, payroll, pillory, polymer, portray, pottery, poultry, poverty, powdery, priorly, probity, prodigy, progeny, pronely, propyla, propyls, prosily, prosody, protyle, protyls, proudly, pyloric, pylorus, pyrogen, pyrolas, pyrones, pyropes, pyrosis, pyrrole, pyrrols, ropeway, roupily, stroppy, topiary, tripody, vapoury. | |
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