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Definitions: Fireball |
FireballNoun1. An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding). 2. A highly energetic and indefatigable person. 3. A ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning). 4. The luminous center of a nuclear explosion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | A bright meteor with luminosity which equals or exceeds that of the brightest planets. (references) |
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A Primordial Fireball is a term coined by P.J.E. Peebles to describe the universe during its first 300,000 years of existence. The fireball supposedly derived most of its energy from the annihilation of particles and antiparticles during the first second after the Big Bang.
In the fictional Super Mario Brothers realm, a fireball is a weapon used by Mario and Luigi to defeat their enemies.
In fantasy role-playing games, "fireball" is a basically a magical grenade created by a spell: a wizard points at the target, casts the spells, and a ball of fire wizzes off at the target, exploding on impact.
Jerry Lee Lewis once described a lover as a fireball, or Great Balls of Fire.
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Synonyms: FireballSynonyms: ball of fire (n), bolide (n), human dynamo (n), powerhouse (n). (additional references) |
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Arms | Ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; "villainous saltpeter"; dumdum bullet. |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
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Crosswords: Fireball |
| Specialty definitions using "fireball": globe lightning. (references) |
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Screenplays | A fireball spinning in their screaming guts! (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fireball Forward (1972) Cuban Fireball (1951) The Fireball (1950) Fireball Fun-For-All (1949) | |
Song Titles | Fireball (performing artist: The Fireballs) | |
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 | Hubble telescope observations of the ever-fading fireball from one of the universe's most ...Credit: NASA. |  | The visible fireball from a titanic explosion in deep space, called a gamma-ray burst, blazes ...Credit: NASA. |
 | Here are Hubble telescope views of the rapidly fading visible-light fireball from the most ...Credit: NASA. | ||
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 | Fireball flying through the air. |
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| "Fireball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.06% of the time. "Fireball" is used about 81 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 95.06% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.94% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "fireball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кълбовидна мълния, голям метеор, много енергичен човек. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 火球. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Feuerkugel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tûzgömb, gömbvillám (globe-lightning, globular lightning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bolide (bolide, meteor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 火玉 (falling star), 火の玉 (falling star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひのたま (falling star), ひ ま (falling star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bluckan chenney, bluckan aile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ireballfay шаровая молния (fire-ball, globe-lightning). (various references) vatrena kugla. (various references) klotblixt (ball lightning, globe lightning), eldkula (bolide), bolid (bolide). (various references) ลูกไฟ, "าวตก. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "fireball": fireballer, fireballers, fireballing, fireballs. (additional references) | |
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"Fireball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: firebalm, firebell, firebelly, firebowl, firehall, forceball, frimbal. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fireball" (pronounced fī"erbô'l or fī"rbô'l) |
| 4 | -er b ô' l | butterball. |
| 3 | -b ô' l | basketball, blackball, cannonball, eyeball, fastball, football, handball, hardball, meatball, mothball, oddball, pinball, racquetball, screwball, snowball, softball, spitball, stickball, trackball, volleyball. |
| 3 | -b ô' l | basketball, blackball, butterball, cannonball, eyeball, fastball, football, handball, hardball, meatball, mothball, oddball, pinball, racquetball, screwball, snowball, softball, spitball, stickball, trackball, volleyball. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
-1 letter: braille, friable, liberal. | |
-2 letters: alible, bailer, baller, befall, biller, fabler, faille, faller, ferial, filler, labile, liable, librae, rebill, refall, refill. | |
-3 letters: abler, afire, ariel, baler, birle, blare, blear, brail, brief, brill, fable, farle, fella, feral, feria, fiber, fibre, filar, filer, fille, flail, flair, flare, flier, frail, frill, ileal, iller, label, libel, liber, libra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-i-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: fibrillae, filtrable, fireballs. | |
+2 letters: fibrillate, filterable, fireballer, pilferable, refillable. | |
+3 letters: fibrillated, fibrillates, fireballers, fireballing. | |
+4 letters: defibrillate, fertilizable, flabelliform, formalizable. | |
+5 letters: defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillator, filterability, liebfraumilch, microfilmable, nonfilterable, nonrefillable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 62 61 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-. . -... .- .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100010 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e b a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 0062 0061 006C 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075847168677878 |
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