Fire-raising

  

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Fire-raising

Definition: Fire-raising

Fire-raising

Noun

1. Malicious burning to destroy property; "the British term for arson is fire-raising".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fire-raising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)


Synonyms: Fire-raising

Synonyms: arson (n), incendiarism (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Fire-raising

"Fire-raising" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fire-raising" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fire-raising

Language Translations for "fire-raising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

gyújtogatás (arson, fire raising, incendiarism, pyromania). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lostey (ablaze, aflame, alight, alight set, burn, burn away, burn up, combustion, cremate, cremation, deflagration, fire, fire away, incinerate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ire-raisingfay

   

Russian 

  

ред. поджог. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tội đốt nhà , sự cố ý đốt nhà . (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fire-raising

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-i-i-n-r-r-s"

-2 letters: nigrifies, reraising, signifier.

-3 letters: earrings, fairings, friaries, fringier, gasifier, grainers, grainier, ignifies, rarifies, refiring, refrains, rerising.

-4 letters: airings, angrier, arising, earings, earring, erasing, fairies, fairing, fearing, feasing, fingers, firings, fringes, gainers, garners, grainer, infares, irising, rainier, raising, rangers, rangier, reagins, rearing, refrain, regains, reginas, ringers, searing, senarii, seringa, sierran.

-5 letters: airers, airier, airing, angers.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-i-i-n-r-r-s"
 

+5 letters: interstratifying, refrangibilities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fire-raising


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 72 65 2D 72 61 69 73 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 00101101 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#114 &#101 &#45 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 0072 0065 002D 0072 0061 0069 0073 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407584711584677585758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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