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Emergency Exit

Definition: Emergency Exit

Emergency Exit

Noun

1. A stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits emergency exit in the case of fire.

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

Synonym: Emergency Exit

Synonym: fire escape (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Emergency Exit

English words defined with "emergency exit": fire escape. (references)

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Modern Usage: Emergency Exit

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What if they set the throttle and jumped off? While we're chasing the train, they're sneaking out of an emergency exit somewhere behind us. (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; writing credit: John Godey; Peter Stone)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Emergency Exit

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Cuba

Before authorities could respond, in June Sanchez requested and received an emergency exit visa due to a death in his family. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Emergency Exit

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

emergency exit sign

19

emergency exit

18

emergency exit light

8

emergency exit illumination

3

emergency exit evacuation

3

aircraft emergency exit

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Emergency Exit

Language Translations for "emergency exit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

nouzový východ (fire escape). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nooduitgang (emergency station). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

varauloskäytävä. (various references)

   

French

  

porte de secours, issue de secours. (various references)

   

German

  

notausgang (exit). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έξοδοσ κινδύνου. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוצא חרום (fire escape). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vészkijárat (emergency door). (various references)

   

Italian

  

uscita di sicurezza. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

非常口 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひじょうぐち. (various references)

   

Manx

  

dorrys egin. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emergencyay exitay

   

Portuguese

  

porta de emergência. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

запасный выход (emergency door). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

salida de emergencia. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nödutgång (emergency door). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tehlike çıkışı. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lối ra khi khẩn cấp, lối ra an to n. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Emergency Exit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-g-i-m-n-r-t-x-y"

-4 letters: emergence, emergency, energetic, excrement, excreting, extermine, remeeting.

-5 letters: cementer, cemetery, cerement, emceeing, emergent, erecting, exegetic, exerting, exigence, exigency, gentrice, mergence, metering, regiment, tigereye.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Emergency Exit


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

45 6D 65 72 67 65 6E 63 79      45 78 69 74

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

    

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

01000101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 00100000 01000101 01111000 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#109 &#101 &#114 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#121 &#32 &#69 &#120 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006D 0065 0072 0067 0065 006E 0063 0079      0045 0078 0069 0074

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

397971847371806991239907586

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INDEX

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


  

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