Fireguard

Definitions: Fireguard

Fireguard

Noun

1. A narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire.

2. A metal screen before an open fire for protection (especially against flying sparks).

Synonyms: Fireguard

Synonyms: fire screen (n), firebreak (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: dressguard (electrical engineering, chemical industry).

"Fireguard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fireguard" is used about 15 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%	15	90,616

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 "fireguard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		предпазна решетка (fire screen). (various references)

Czech		krbová mřížka. (various references)

German		gitter (bars, Bravais lattice, cascade, crystal lattice, fencing, grate, grating, gratings, grid, grid of an X-ray tube, grids, grill, grille, lattice, lattices, latticework, map grid, mesh, railing, space lattice, trellis, trellises, wire netting). (various references)

Hungarian		védõrostély. (various references)

Italian		parafuoco (fender, fire screen, firescreen), caminiera. (various references)

Manx		scaa aile (firescreen), gardey aile, arreyder aile. (various references)

Pig Latin		ireguardfay

Portuguese		vaga-lume (gloxinia, lightning rod), resguardo (cowl, cowling, fender, guard, guide post, guide rail, passing track, siding), pára-choques (fender), corta-fogo (firewall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rešetka za žar. (various references)

Spanish		guardafuego (fender), bombero (fire fighter, firefighter, fireman, smoke chaser, troubleshooter), alambrera (fencing, mesh, wire netting). (various references)

Thai		กรอบหน้าเตาไฟ. (various references)

Turkish		yangınları rapor eden görevli, ateş paravanası. (various references)

Ukranian		камінна решітка, протипожежна смуга, пожежник (fire fighter, fireman, nozzleman, waterman). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fireguard": fireguards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fireguard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diergaardt, Frigard. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-i-r-r-u"
	-1 letter: argufied, argufier.
	-2 letters: figured, figurer, gaudier, guarder, refugia.
	-3 letters: argued, arguer, arider, durrie, faired, fairer, figure, fridge, furred, garred, girder, grader, guider, raider, regard, uredia.
	-4 letters: adieu, afire, aider, aired, airer, argue, auger, aurei, darer, deair, direr, dirge, drear, drier, durra, fader, fadge, fared, farer, feria, feuar, fidge, fired, firer, fraud, friar, fried, frier.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-g-i-r-r-u"
	+1 letter: fireguards.
	+3 letters: disregardful, transfigured.
	+5 letters: unrefrigerated.
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