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Definition: Fire-resistant |
Fire-resistantAdjective1. Difficult to burn. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | Resistant to destruction by fire; totally or almost totally unburnable; incombustible. . . . fire-resistant. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Property of an element of a structure to be able to resist the effects of fire through-out a certain time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Fire-resistantSynonyms: fire-resisting (adj), fire-resistive (adj), fire-retardant (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: fire resistant (building & civil engineering, engineering & technologymining), fireproof (chemical industry, industry), fire-retardant (public administration, engineering & technology). |
Crosswords: Fire-resistant |
| English words defined with "fire-resistant": fire door, firewall. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fire-resistant": fire resistant board, fire wall, flame-proofed board, flame-resistant board ♦ jet lube oil ♦ permissible hydraulic fluid ♦ refuge chamber ♦ synthetic ester lube ♦ water ampule. (references) |
| "Fire-resistant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fire-resistant" is used about 9 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "fire-resistant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | Ekspertudvalg for brandmodstandsdygtige Vaesker (Committee of Experts on Fire-resistant Hydraulic Fluids). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | Comité van deskundigen voor moeilijk ontvlambare hydraulische vloeistoffen (Committee of Experts on Fire-resistant Hydraulic Fluids). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ignifuge (fire resisting, fireproof, fire-proof). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | feuerbeständig (fireproof). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | Comitato di esperti in materia di liquidi difficilmente infiammabili (Committee of Experts on Fire-resistant Hydraulic Fluids). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 防火塗料 (fire-resistant paint). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうかとりょう (fire-resistant paint). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ire-resistantfay Bandas Transportadoras Difícilmente Inflamables (Fire-resistant Conveyor Belts and Other Long Items of Plant). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-n-r-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fraternities. | |
-2 letters: arteritises, tristearins. | |
-3 letters: artistries, festinates, itinerates, reinstates, restraints, stratifies, tanistries, tertiaries, testifiers, tristearin. | |
-4 letters: anisettes, arsenites, arteritis, enteritis, fasteners, fatteners, fattiness, feistiest, ferritins, festinate, feteritas, fieriness, frisettes, infesters, inserters, insetters, interests, interties, irateness, irritants, irritates, itinerate, ratifiers, ratteners, refastens, reinserts, reinstate, resinates, resistant, restrains, restraint, retainers, retinites, retirants, satieties, sestertia, starriest, stearines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-n-r-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: interstratifies. | |
+4 letters: transferabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 2D 72 65 73 69 73 74 61 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 00101101 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e - r e s i s t a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 002D 0072 0065 0073 0069 0073 0074 0061 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075847115847185758586678086 |
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