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Fire Watching

Definition: Fire Watching

Fire Watching

Noun

1. (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky.

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


Crosswords: Fire Watching

Specialty definitions using "fire watching": Dothan. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Fire Watching

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Misspellings: Fire Watching

Misspellings

"Fire Watching" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: firewatching. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fire Watching

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-h-i-i-n-r-t-w"

-3 letters: chieftain, fathering, infighter, nightwear, trichinae, withering, wreathing.

-4 letters: airthing, argentic, artifice, catering, chairing, charting, cheating, chigetai, crafting, creating, earthing, ethician, faceting, faithing, farthing, fetching, frighten, giftware, granitic, hangfire, hearting, hieratic, ingather, reaching, reacting, reaginic, reciting, refacing, retching, teaching, thrawing, trichina, twangier, wafering, watching, watering, wharfing, witchier, witching, wrathing, writhing.

-5 letters: airting, anergic, archine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fire Watching


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

46 69 72 65      57 61 74 63 68 69 6E 67

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

    

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

01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#32 &#87 &#97 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0072 0065      0057 0061 0074 0063 0068 0069 006E 0067

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

4075847125767866974758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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