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Definition: Fire Engine |
Fire EngineNoun1. Any of various large trucks that carry firemen and equipment to the site of a fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Fire EngineSynonym: fire truck (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term fire engine was first used in the 17th century, in exactly the same sense it has now, "a machine for throwing water to extinguish fires".
Firefighters are assigned to engine companies or ladder companies, reflecting very different professional practices. There are also rescue companies with their own distinctive vehicles, including ambulances.
The ladder companies operate fire trucks, that is, fire vehicle that do not have pumps and are therefore not fire engines. Often fire trucks are equipped with long ladders, hydraulic platforms and a variety of other emergency equipment and supplies. The hook-and-ladder is the best-known form of fire truck, but there are also snorkel, or cherry-picker, rigs, floodlight trucks and other specialized units.
Fire trucks and fire engines and other rigs are also used to carry firefighters to fires.
In some communities fire vehicles are used to carry paramedics to medical emergencies. This sometimes puzzles people who see a fire unit race past but do not see any fire.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fire engine."
Crosswords: Fire Engine |
| English words defined with "fire engine": aerial ladder truck ♦ Engine turning ♦ Forcing engine ♦ Hydropult ♦ ladder truck ♦ Steam blower, Steam fire engine ♦ Water engine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fire engine": fire and overheat detector, fire wall. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Glasgow Fire Engine (1898) Fire Engine at Work (1896) | |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wildfire nearing gas wells with fire engine helping in Roswell FO, NM.Credit: H. Parman. |  | BLM wildland fire engine.Credit: Unknown. |
 | Richmond, Va. Fire Engine No. 3.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Firehouse scene showing firemen pulling a hand-drawn fire engine as other firemen scramble to readiness.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Community fire engine. Radburn, New Jersey.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old fire engine used in Saint Martinville, Louisiana, about one hundred years ago.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Quassaick Fire Engine Co., New Windsor, New York. Exterior.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Museum of the City of New York, 5th Ave. and 104th St., New York City. Fire engine.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fire engine. Man at wheel of fire engine.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Expression using "fire engine": steam fire engine. Additional references. | |
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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 engine | 372 |
fire engine sale | 22 |
die cast fire engine | 5 |
seagrave fire engine | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "fire engine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | makinë zjarrfikëse (firereels). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سيارة الإطفاء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | противопожарна кола, пожарникарска кола. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stříkaèka (squirt, syringe), hasièská stříkaèka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voiture des pompiers. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | feuerwehrwagen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πυροσβεστική αντλία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכו ית כבוי, מכו ית כבאים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tűzoltóautó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | autopompa antincendio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 消防車 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうぼうしゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greie aile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irefay engineay prática de incêndio, bomba de incêndio. (various references) pompã de incendiu (engine). (various references) пожарная машина (fire truck, water-engine). (various references) vatrogasna kola. (various references) carro de bomberos, bomba para incendios. (various references) brandbil (fire-engine). (various references) itfaiye arabası (engine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
-2 letters: engineer, infringe, refining. | |
-3 letters: feigner, finnier, freeing, ginnier, greenie, reefing, reining. | |
-4 letters: engine, feeing, feirie, ferine, finger, fining, firing, fringe, ginner, refine, renege. | |
-5 letters: eerie, feign, finer, genie, genii, genre, green, grief, infer, inner, iring, reign, renig, renin. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-g-i-i-n-n-r" | |
+3 letters: birefringence. | |
+4 letters: birefringences. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 45 6E 67 69 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01000101 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e   E n g i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 0045 006E 0067 0069 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407584712398073758071 |
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