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Definitions: Firebrick |
FirebrickNoun1. Brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. Bricks made from a very refractory clay to withstand intense heat. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FIREBRICK | English | Federal Inter-Agency River Basis Committee | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| "Firebrick" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Firebrick" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Firebrick, KY |
| 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 |
firebrick | 36 |
brick fire firebrick | 9 |
firebrick ky | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "firebrick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | огнеупорна тухла. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ildfast sten (combustion block, fire brick, fire tile, fireproofing tile, firestone, refractory brick), ildfast mursten (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vuurvaste steen (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick), Chamottesteen (brick, clay, combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulenkestävä tiili (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pierre réfractaire (fire brick, firestone), brique réfractaire (fire brick, firestone), brique d'argile réfractaire (fireclay refractory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | feuerfester Ziegel (combustion block, fire brick, fire tile, fireproofing tile, firestone, refractory brick), feuerfester Stein (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick), Verbrennungssperre (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick), Schamotteziegel (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick), Schamotte Feuerfest-Material (fireclay refractory), Explosionssperre (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυρίμαχος οπτόπλινθος (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick), πυρίμαχο τούβλο (brick, clay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | refrattario argilloso (fireclay refractory), mattone refrattario (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 耐火煉" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいかれ"が. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irebrickfay tijolo refractário (combustion block, fire brick, fire tile, fireproofing tile, firestone, refractory brick), ladrilho refractário (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick), armas de fogo. (various references) огнеупорный кирпич (fire-brick). (various references) vatrostalna opeka. (various references) ladrillo refractario (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) eldfast tegel (combustion block, fire brick, firestone, refractory brick). (various references) อิฐทนไฟ. (various references) вогнетривка цегла. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "firebrick": firebricks. (additional references) | |
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"Firebrick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fibrerich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-f-i-i-k-r-r" | |
-1 letter: brickier. | |
-3 letters: bicker, birkie, ferric, ickier, ribier. | |
-4 letters: biker, bikie, brick, brief, brier, cirri, crier, fiber, fibre, firer, frier, icier, icker, kefir, kibei, ricer, rifer. | |
-5 letters: beck, bice, bier, bike, birk, birr, brie, cire, crib, feck, fice, fire, keir, kerb, kerf, kibe, kief, kier, reck, reif, rice, rick, rife. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-f-i-i-k-r-r" | |
+1 letter: firebricks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 62 72 69 63 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 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e b r i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 0062 0072 0069 0063 006B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407584716884756977 |
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