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Definition: Fire Door |
Fire DoorNoun1. A fire-resistant door that can be closed to stop the spread of a fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. A fireproof door in a building or in a mine, as a door to enclose an area in which there is a mine fire b. The door or opening through which fuel is supplied to a furnace orstove. (references) |
Public Administration | Door of at least 30 minutes fire resistance which is prescribed for fire safety reasons and which has to be kept closed in accordance with the authorities instructions. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insulation, Fire extinction | {ant. of } insulation, incombustible material, noncombustible material; fire retardant, flame retardant; fire wall, fire door. |
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Crosswords: Fire Door |
| Specialty definitions using "fire door": CUPOLA TENDER ♦ DOOR-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ furnace tender ♦ smoke door, smoke louvre, smoke outlet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fire door": Teaze-hole. (references) |
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Screenplays | I know that you cannot see in that bathroom because that is a shielded fire door, but if and when your power kicks in and you do look through my clothes, I will rip your head off and attach it to his butt! (Generation X; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | On board USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42), 22 April 1946, during Eighth Fleet maneuvers off the U.S. east coast. Among the others present are Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (behind Truman) and Mr. Steelman (at the extreme left). Behind them, painted on a hangar deck fire door, is a caricature of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a sailor in similar poses.Credit: NAVY. |
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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 |
fire door | 72 |
steel fire door | 4 |
fire door hold and release system supplier | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "fire door"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вратичка на пещ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | branddoer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | brandwerende deur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | porte coupe-feu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Brandschutztuer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πόρτα πυρασφάλειας, πυρίμαχη πόρτα, εξόρυξη (blast, conveying, dam, extracted seam height, extracted seam thickness, extraction, fire wall, haulage, mining, seal, shot, stopping, transport, transportation, worked thickness), απόληψη του μεταλλεύματος (dam, fire wall, seal, stopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kemenceajtó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | porta tagliafuoco, porta resistente al fuoco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 防火扉 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうかとびら. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irefay oorday porta resistente ao fogo, porta corta-fogo. (various references) топочная дверца (fire-door). (various references) vrata ložišta. (various references) puerta cortafuegos (sectional door), puerta contrafuego, cortafuego (dam, fire wall, seal, stopping). (various references) eldstadslucka, branddörr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: foodie, foredo, oroide, reroof, roofed, roofer. | |
-3 letters: direr, drier, fiord, fired, firer, fordo, fried, frier, frore, oorie, order, rider, rifer, rodeo. | |
-4 letters: defi, dire, doer, door, dore, dorr, feod, fido, fire, food, ford, fore, froe, ired, odor, ordo, redo, reif, ride, rife, rode, rood, roof. | |
-5 letters: die, doe, dor, err, fed, fer, fid, fie. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-r-r" | |
+2 letters: airproofed, foreordain. | |
+3 letters: fireproofed, foolhardier, foreordains, odoriferous. | |
+4 letters: foreordained, overinformed, proofreading, sudoriferous. | |
+5 letters: foregrounding, foreordaining, odoriferously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 44 6F 6F 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e   D o o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 0044 006F 006F 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40758471238818184 |
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