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Definition: Firetrap |
FiretrapNoun1. A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mission District firetrap. San Francisco, California.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
firetrap | 29 |
firetrap clothing | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "firetrap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | ndërtesë pa siguri shpëtimi, ndërtesë e pasiguruar kundër zjarrit. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Feuerfalle. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iretrapfay yangında dışarı kaçılamayan bina. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "firetrap": firetraps. (additional references) | |
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"Firetrap" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fiertag, Fietzau, Fietzav. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: partier. | |
-2 letters: artier, fairer, frater, irater, pirate, prater, rafter, rapier, repair. | |
-3 letters: afire, afrit, after, airer, apter, atrip, farer, feria, firer, friar, frier, irate, parer, pater, peart, pieta, prate, prier, raper, rater, refit, retia, rifer, riper, taper, tapir, tarre, terai, terra, trier, tripe. | |
-4 letters: airt, aper, fair, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feta, fiar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: firetraps. | |
+2 letters: grapefruit. | |
+3 letters: grapefruits, imperforate, perforating, perforation, proliferate. | |
+4 letters: perforations, performative, prefabricate, preferential, preformation, professoriat, proliferated, proliferates. | |
+5 letters: performatives, prefabricated, prefabricates, preferability, prefiguration, prefigurative, preformations, preformatting, professoriate, professoriats, proliferating, proliferation, proliferative, waterproofing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 74 72 61 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-. . - .-. .- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e t r a p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 0074 0072 0061 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4075847186846782 |
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