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FIRE OFF

Synonyms within Context: FIRE OFF

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Regression

Send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: FIRE OFF

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

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

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Use in Literature: FIRE OFF

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

When you deem the affair at a point, and when it is time to stop it, you will fire off a pistol.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: FIRE OFF

Expressions using "FIRE OFF": fire off a distress signal fire off a remark. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: FIRE OFF

Language Translations for "FIRE OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

afvuur (discharge, fire), afskiet (discharge, fire, let off, shoot, shoot off). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vypálit (brand, burn down, burn out, cauterize, fire). (various references)

   

Danish

  

affyre (discharge, fire). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontladen (discharge, fire, let off), losbranden (discharge, fire), afvuren (discharge, fire), afschieten (discharge, fire, let off, shoot off). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malŝargi (discharge, fire, let off), ekpafi (discharge, fire). (various references)

   

French

  

partir (fire). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôfsjitte (discharge, fire, let off, shoot off), ôffjurje (discharge, fire). (various references)

   

German

  

abfeuern (discharge, fire, firing, let off, loose off, pop, shoot off, to fire off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

váratlan kérdést szegez vkinek (to fire off a question at sy), pillanatfelvételt készít vmiről (to fire off at sg). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

射掛ける (to shoot or fire off an arrow). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いかける (to shoot or fire off an arrow). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irefay offay

   

Romanian

  

trânti o observaţie (fire off a remark). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avlossa (deliver, discharge, fire, pour). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FIRE OFF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-f-f-i-o-r"

-2 letters: feoff, fifer, offer.

-3 letters: fief, fife, fire, fore, froe, reif, rife, riff.

-4 letters: eff, fer, fie, fir, foe, for, fro, iff, ire, off, ore, ref, rei, rif, roe.

-5 letters: ef, er, if, oe, of, or, re.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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