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Definition: Firebreak |
FirebreakNoun1. A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A temporary, cleared(often burnt), narrow strip from which to counterfire or do controlled burning. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A strip across the area in which no combustible material is employed, or in which, if timber supports are used, sand (not waste rock) is later filled and packed tightly around them. Where timber is not used in stope supports, the firebreaks are simply stretches in the levels or winzes in which timber lagging is replaced by some other substance, such as steel orconcrete. (references) |
Public Administration | Any natural or constructed discontinuity in potential fuels that segregates, stops, and controls the spread of fire or provides a control line from which to control a fire. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FirebreakSynonym: fireguard (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: break line (public administration, food & agriculture), fire trace (food & agriculture), fireline (public administration, food & agriculture), fuel break. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Backfire, firebreak, trench; aerial water bombardment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Firebreak" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Firebreak" is used about 7 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
firebreak | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "firebreak"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 防火线. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | pare-feu (fire shield, firewall). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 防火線 (a firebreak). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうかせ" (a firebreak). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 방"대. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irebreakfay brandgata. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "firebreak": firebreaks. (additional references) | |
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"Firebreak" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: freirean. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-i-k-r-r" | |
-1 letter: freakier. | |
-2 letters: barkier, beakier, brakier, breaker, briefer. | |
-3 letters: aerier, barker, beaker, bearer, berake, faerie, fairer, fakeer, fearer, feriae, kerria, refire. | |
-4 letters: aerie, afire, airer, baker, barer, barre, biker, brake, break, briar, brief, brier, faker, fakir, farer, feria, fiber, fibre, firer, freak, freer, frere, friar, frier, kafir, kebar, kefir, rakee, raker, rebar, refer, rifer. | |
-5 letters: abri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-f-i-k-r-r" | |
+1 letter: firebreaks. | |
+4 letters: farkleberries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 62 72 65 61 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-. . -... .-. . .- -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e b r e a k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 0062 0072 0065 0061 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407584716884716777 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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