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Fire-resistant

Definition: Fire-resistant

Fire-resistant

Adjective

1. Difficult to burn.

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


Specialty Definitions: Fire-resistant

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Fire-resistant

Synonyms: 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).

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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 boardjet lube oilpermissible hydraulic fluidrefuge chambersynthetic ester lubewater ampule. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Fire-resistant

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fire-resistant

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

   

Spanish

  

Bandas Transportadoras Difícilmente Inflamables (Fire-resistant Conveyor Belts and Other Long Items of Plant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fire-resistant

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fire-resistant


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)

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)

&#70 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#45 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#116

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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