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Fire Up

Definition: Fire Up

Fire Up

Verb

1. Arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred".

2. Begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up".

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


Specialty Definition: Fire Up

DomainDefinition

Literature

Fire Up (To). To become indignantly angry. The Latin, "irâ exardescere," "Inflammer de colère." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

A command to start operating a drill either to collar a borehole or torestart work on the first working shift of a day. (references)

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Synonyms: Fire Up

Synonyms: heat (v), ignite (v), inflame (v), light (v), light up (v), stir up (v), wake (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fire Up

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

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

Irascibility

Verb: be irascible; Adjective: have a temper; Noun: have a devil in one; fire up; (be angry).

Resentment

Fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fire Up

Specialty definitions using "fire up": AUXILIARY-EQUIPMENT OPERATORpump-room operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fire Up

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Fire up (1997)

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Commercial Usage: Fire Up

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fire Up Your Brilliance: The Passion Energies That Position You For Success (reference)

  • Fire Up Your Communication Skills: Get People to Listen, Understand, and Give You What You Want! (reference)

  • Fire Up Your Life (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Use in Literature: Fire Up

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Ma built the fire up with the last twigs and cooked the bacon and made gravy.

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Expression: Fire Up

Expression using "fire up": To fire up. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fire Up

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

fire up

6

cd fire up

2
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Modern Translation: Fire Up

Language Translations for "fire up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nxehem (become heated, become hot, blow up, chafe, fly into a passion, fly into a rage, get angry, get hot, lose one's temper), ndez (activate, burn, enkindle, fire, foment, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, make the fire, set fire, set light to, set on fire, switch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разсърдвам се. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vzplanout hnìvem (fly into a rage). (various references)

   

Danish

  

varme op (to cook up, to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), tempre op (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), optempre (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opwarmen (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), optemperen (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylöslämmittää (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), temprata (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

   

French

  

attremper (to fire up). (various references)

   

German

  

tempern (temper), auftempern (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), antempern (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φουντώνω (flare on, flare up, rage, spread, tuft). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תלקח (be inflamed, blaze up, catch fire, fire, flame, flare up, ignite). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

feldühödik (fly off the handle, to blow one's stack, to blow one's top, to fire up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

preriscaldare il forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), portare in temperatura il forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irefay upay

   

Portuguese

  

pré-aquecer o forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), aquecer o forno (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se mânia (chafe, fling). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вспылить (fall into a passion, flame out, flame up, fly into a passion, fly off the handle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prasnuti, planuti (blaze, break out, burst in, burst into, flare, flare up, flash). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

templar (anneal, key, plunge, quench, temper, tune, tune up), poner a temperatura (to fire up, to heat up, to warm up), calentar (animate, enliven, freshen, heat, heat up, hot up, scald, stoke, vivify, warm, warm through, warm up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brusa upp (flame out, flame up, flare up). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fire Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-p-r-u"

-2 letters: fire, peri, pfui, pier, pure, puri, reif, rife, ripe.

-3 letters: fer, feu, fie, fir, fur, ire, per, pie, piu, pur, ref, rei, rep, rif, rip, rue.

-4 letters: ef, er, if, pe, pi, re, up.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: puffier.

 

+2 letters: fireplug, frumpier, prideful, purified, purifier, purifies, repurify, superfix, uplifter.

 

+3 letters: dipperful, fireplugs, frumpiest, ibuprofen, perfuming, perfusing, perfusion, prefigure, pufferies, purifiers, putrefied, putrefies, superfine, superfirm, superwife, uplifters.

 

+4 letters: copurified, copurifies, dipperfuls, grapefruit, ibuprofens, painfuller, perfidious, perfusions, pitcherful, pitifuller, prefigured, prefigures, prequalify, pridefully, putrefying, repurified, repurifies, superfirms, superfixes, superfluid.

 

+5 letters: cupriferous, grapefruits, gypsiferous, perfumeries, pestiferous, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, prefiguring, prefocusing, prestigeful, repurifying, spitefuller, superfamily, superficial, superficies, superfluids, superfluity, superinfect, superprofit.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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