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Ignite

Definitions: Ignite

Ignite

Verb

1. Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter."; "Light a cigarette.".

2. Start to burn; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly.".

3. Arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred".

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

Date "ignite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Ignite

DomainDefinitions

Energy

To heat a gaseous mixture to the temperature at which combustion takes place. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Ignite

Synonyms: catch fire (v), erupt (v), fire up (v), heat (v), inflame (v), light (v), stir up (v), take fire (v), wake (v). (additional references)
Antonym: extinguish (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ignite

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Calefaction

Fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ignite

English words defined with "ignite": Davy lampelectrical systemflare upigniter, Igniting, ignitorlight, light up, lightermatchlocknonflammablePercussion powder, pilot, pilot burner, pilot light, Pneumatic syringe, Portfirereignitesafety lampTime fuse. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ignite": autoignition temperature, automatic lehr operatorBRAKE-LINING CURER, Buxton testCUPOLA TENDERDRIER TENDERexplosion proofFLAME CHANNELER, flameproof enclosure, furnace operator, furnace tendergun perforatorheat treat worker, heat treater, hypergolic propellantsINCINERATOR OPERATOR I, INCINERATOR OPERATOR IIjet channeler, jet-piercer operatorLamp, lehr attendant, lehr operator, lehr stripper, LEHR TENDERmeat smokernitrogen peroxide, nitrogen tetroxideoil-well gun-perforator operatorPERFORATOR OPERATOR, OIL WELL, pilot flame, precombustion chamber, PULP-DRIER FIRERretrofireSCARFING MACHINE OPERATOR, Silanes, smokehouse attendantthermic boring, two-stage igniter. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ignite

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Great storms announce themselves with a single breeze, and a single random spark can ignite the fires of rebellion. (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara)

Oh, Key of Clow power of magic power of light surrender the wand the force ignite! (CardCaptors; writing credit: Jennifer Pertsch)

Mars Fire Ignite! (Sailor Moon; writing credit: Todd Swift)

Lyrics

Waiting to ignite ("Shine"; performing artist: Cyndi Lauper)

From the day me born jah ignite ma flame gal a call ma name and it is ma Fame ("Get Busy"; performing artist: SEAN PAUL)

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

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Commercial Usage: Ignite

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hot Groups: Seeding Them, Feeding Them, and Using Them to Ignite Your Organization (reference)

  • Ignite Your Intuition: Improve Your Memory, Make Better Decisions, Be More Creative and Achieve Your Full Potential (reference)

  • One Holy Fire: Let the Spirit Ignite Your Soul (reference)

  • The Jump Start Leadership Workbook: Ignite Your Ability to Lead & Succeed! (reference)

  • What Every Successful Woman Knows: 12 Breakthrough Strategies to Get the Power and Ignite Your Career (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Image Slideshow: Ignite

Illustrations:
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Sounds Captioned with "Ignite".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Match; matchbox; flame; flaming; fire; flint; ignite; light.Ignite; fire; flame; lighter; lighting; flicking; flint; fuel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ignite

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Cote D'ivoire

In 1994, for example, the fifty percent devaluation of the CFA franc failed to ignite popular unrest, despite the government's decision to hold average wage increases to only 10 percent. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ignite

"Ignite" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.65% of the time. "Ignite" is used about 85 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)77.65%6641,290
Lexical Verb (base form)22.35%1980,337
                    Total100.00%85N/A

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

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Expression: Ignite

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ignite": re-ignite.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ignite

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ignite

76

bt ignite

28

steve madden ignite

12

ignite lyrics

12

fat ignite

11

ignite kazaa

10

ignite magazine

9

ignite plus

8

action figure ignite

5

fire ignite

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ignite

Language Translations for "ignite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vë zjarr (burn down, fire, kindle), nxeh fort, ndez (activate, burn, enkindle, fire, fire up, foment, heat, inflame, kindle, light, make the fire, set fire, set light to, set on fire, switch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إلتهب (inflame), ‏إشتعل (burn, catch fire, flame, flame up, sparkle, strike), ‏أشعل (burn, enkindle, fan the flame, fire, inflame, kindle, light, light up, lit, rekindle, switch on, torch, turn on). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

възпламенявам (detonate, enkindle, fulminate, set off, touch off), запалвам се (catch fire, enthuse, fire, inflame, kindle, light, warm), запалвам (enthuse, fire, have a smoke, kick over, kindle, light, light up, start, start up, turn on, warm), подпалвам се (catch fire), подпалвам (burn up, set fire to, set on fire), паля (fire, light, strike, switch on, turn on, turn over). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

發火 (catch fire, detonate, get angry), 点燃 (ignited, Igniting, kindle, kindled, kindling, lighted). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zapálit (blow in, electrify, enkindle, fire, kindle, light, set fire, set fire to, set on fire), vznítit se (catch, inflame), podpálit, chytit (capture, catch, catch fire, clutch, field, get, grasp, light, pick up, seize, take, take a fire, take fire). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tænde (fire, kindle, light, to ignite, to inflame), stoffet kan spontant antændes ved kontakt med luft (the substance may spontaneously ignite on contact with air). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ontsteken (excite, firing, kindle, light, to ignite, to inflame). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مشتعل شدن (Burn, Flame, Light, Low), گیراندن , اتش گرفتن (Inflame, Light, Spunk), اتش زدن (Alight, Burn, Fire), روشن کردن (Alight, Brighten, Clarify, Daylight, Elucidate, Enlighten, Explain, Illuminate, Lighten, Refresh, Relume). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sytyttää (fire, kindle set fire to, light, set on fire), syttyä (be kindled, blaze up, break out, burst into flames, catch fire, kindle, light, take fire), hehkuttaa (bring . . to a red heat, heat to incandescence). (various references)

   

French

  

prendre le feu, mettre le feu , enflammer (to ignite). (various references)

   

German

  

zünden (burn, catch, catch fire, catch light, detonate, excite, fire, firing, flash on, kindle, kindle enthusiasm, let off, light, set alight, set off, strike, take fire, to ignite, v.), entzünden (fire, ignition, inflame, kindle, light, spark, strike, to ignite), anzünden (fire, ignition, kindle, light, set fire to, to set fire to, to strike). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πυρπολώ (set on fire), ανάβω (go on 1, go on 2, kindle, light, light up, lit, switch on, turn on). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תלקח (be inflamed, blaze up, catch fire, fire, fire up, flame, flare up), ל"ת יע (start), ל""ליק (burn, kindle, light, light up, set light to, switch on), ל""לק, ל"צית (fire, kindle, light, set fire to, set on fire, spark), לבער (kindle light). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meggyullad (flame up, to break into flames, to burst into flame, to burst into flames, to catch fire, to flame up, to go up in flames, to ignite, to inflame, to kindle, to light, to take fire), meggyújt (inflame, kindle, light, lit, to ignite, to inflame, to kindle, to light, to prime), lángra lobban (flame up, flare up, get inflamed, to blaze up, to break into flames, to burst into flame, to burst into flames, to catch alight, to flame up, to flare up, to go up in flames, to inflame), hevít (to fire, to flush, to heat, to warm up), begyújt (lit, prime, to light, to prime, to start up). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyulut (become heatedly angry, kindle, trigger), menyalakan (boot, enkindle), mencetuskan (kindle, spark). (various references)

   

Italian

  

infiammare (become inflamed, fire, heat, inflame, kindle, set on fire, take fire), dare fuoco. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

燃え付く  (to catch fire, to ignite), 燃え付く (to catch fire, to ignite). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

もえつく (to catch fire, to ignite). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

발"하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

foaddey (arson, burn, burn up, burning, ignition, incendiarism, kindle, light, set on fire, switch on). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

antenne (antenna). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igniteay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

incendiar (burn, fire, inflame, kindliness, light beer), incandescente (glow, glowing, incandescent), pegar fogo (catch fire), acender (enkindle, fire, kindle, light, lighten, turn on). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se aprinde (catch, fire, glow, inflame, kindle, light), face incandescent, da de foc, arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, glow, grill, heat, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot), aprinde (animate, beacon, blush, enkindle, excite, fan, fire, heat, inflame, kindle, light, light up, redden, rot, shine, strike). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

зажигать (enkindle, fire, kindle, light). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zapaliti (get inflamed, kindle, light, set fire, set fire to, set on fire), upaliti (light, start up, switch on, turn on), potpaliti (set fire to). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incendiarse (catch fire), incendiar (burn down, fire, set fire to, set on fire), pegar fuego a, encenderse (blaze up, blush, burn up, catch, catch fire, come on, come up, flare, flare up, get excited, get red, go off, go on, inflame, kindle, light, strike), encender (burn, fire, firing, illuminate, inflame, kindle, light, light up, lighter, put on, set light to, switch on, to ignite, to inflame, turn on). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

antända (fire, inflame, kindle, light, set fire to). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ก่อไฟ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yakmak (bite, burn, cauterize, fire, flash, incinerate, kindle, light, light up, put on, scathe, scorch, sear, set on fire, turn on), tutuşturmak (deflagrate, enkindle, fire, kindle, set on fire), tutuşmak (blaze, burn, catch, catch fire, flame up, inflame, kindle, take), ateşlemek (discharge, fire, let fly, let off, loose, loose off, pop, set off, spark, touch off), ateş almak (catch fire, fire, go off, kindle). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розжарювати до світіння, запалюватися (enkindle, fire, inflame, light), запалювати (enkindle, fire, fuze, inflame, kindle, light up, prime, spark). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ignite

Derivations

Words beginning with "ignite": ignited, igniter, igniters, ignites. (additional references)

Words ending with "ignite": gelignite, lignite, reignite. (additional references)

Words containing "ignite": gelignites, lignites, reignited, reignites. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ignite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dignite, gnitteg, Ignatiev, Ignatov, Ignaty, Ignesti, igniite, ignit, ignita, ignitor, ignotum, ingit, ingite, ingnite, ingyt, ingyte, iniate, inito, ionit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ignite"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ignite" (pronounced ignī"t)
5i g n ī" treignite.
3-n ī" tdunite, knight, night, nite, overnight, reunite, tonight.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ignite

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tieing.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-t"

-1 letter: genii, tinge.

-2 letters: gent, gien, inti, nite, tine, ting.

-3 letters: eng, gen, get, gie, gin, git, net, nit, teg, ten, tie, tin.

-4 letters: en, et, in, it, ne, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-t"
 

+1 letter: dieting, editing, eviting, exiting, ignited, igniter, ignites, iteming, lignite, nightie, tiering.

 

+2 letters: betiding, bitewing, debiting, diligent, dingiest, emitting, enditing, enticing, evicting, exciting, existing, feinting, fileting, genitive, ginniest, heisting, ideating, igniters, indigent, intrigue, lignites, lingiest, meriting, mingiest, mitering, nighties, quieting, reciting, reignite, resiting, retiling, retiming, retiring, riveting, stingier, thieving, tingeing, tinglier, wingiest, zingiest.

 

+3 letters: antigenic, befitting, bemisting, benignity, billeting, bisecting, bitewings, bittering, clingiest, coediting, cognitive, crediting, delisting, demitting, depicting, desisting, despiting, destining, detailing, detaining, deticking, deviating, digenetic, digesting, digestion, dignities, directing, distingue, dithering, diverting, divesting, eliciting, enigmatic, enlisting, entailing, entitling, entoiling, entwining, erotizing, expiating, fidgeting, filleting, filtering, fingertip, fringiest, gainliest, gelignite, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitival, genitives, gentility, giantlike, gibbeting, gimleting, grainiest, hogtieing, hygienist, ignitable, ignitible, incepting, indenting, indigents, infecting, infesting, infighter, ingenuity, ingesting, ingestion, ingestive, injecting, inletting, inserting, insetting, instigate, integrity, intending, interning, interring, intrigued, intriguer, intrigues, inventing, inverting, investing, itemising, itemizing, iterating, jingliest, jittering, kingliest, kittening, listening, littering, loitering, mediating, miseating, mitogenic, nightlife, nightside, nighttime, orienting, originate, pectizing, peptizing, picketing, pigeonite, pipetting, poetising, poetizing, priesting, rebaiting, reediting, refitting, reignited, reignites, relisting, reminting, remitting, requiting, resifting, resisting, resitting, respiting, retailing, retaining, retinting, retitling, reuniting, rewriting, rivetting, seriating, signeting, sintering, sistering, sortieing, stingiest, stringier, stymieing, swingiest, ticketing, tillering, timbering, tingliest, tinkering, tinseling, tiptoeing, tittering, toileting, toxigenic, twingeing, vigilante, weighting, whitening, whitewing, wintering, withering.

 

+4 letters: abiogenist, acetifying, acierating, alienating, alimenting, antilogies, appetising, appetizing, beatifying, bedighting, bedirtying, belittling, benefiting, bepainting, bestirring, bestriding, bethinking, bevomiting, bewitching, biogenetic, blistering, blithering, brigantine, certifying, chittering, coexisting, conceiting, cricketing, datelining, decimating, dedicating, delighting, delimiting, demeriting, deorbiting, depainting, depilating, depositing, deputizing, destaining, detraining, diagenetic, digestions, diligently, dipnetting, discepting, disjecting, disseating, dissecting, dissenting, disserting, distending, eluviating, emaciating, emigrating, emigration, enticingly, entraining, entwisting, epigenetic, eradiating, estimating, estivating, eternising, eternizing, etherizing, ethicizing, etiolating, eugenicist, excitingly, exhibiting, expediting, exploiting, expositing, extincting, extinguish, exuviating, fingertips, flittering, forfeiting, freighting, frittering, gadolinite, garnierite, gelatinize, gelignites, geminating, gemination, geneticist, gentamicin, gentrified, gentrifier, gentrifies, gibbetting, gleization, glistening, glistering, glittering, grittiness, guillotine, guiltiness, gyniatries, hepatizing, herniating, hesitating, hygienists, iatrogenic, iceboating, ignimbrite, indigested, inearthing, infighters, inflecting, ingestible, ingestions, ingratiate, ingredient, inheriting, inquieting, inspecting, instigated, instigates, intaglioed, intangible, intragenic, intreating, intriguers, invaginate, invigilate, invigorate, isoantigen, laterizing, leistering, lentigines, levigating, levigation, levitating, liberating, lightening, lightering, medicating, meditating, meningitic, meningitis, mentioning, metalising, metalizing, metrifying, mightiness, misediting, mismeeting, misseating, missetting, mistending, misterming, moistening, monetising, monetizing, multigenic, negativing, negativism, negativist, negativity, nightlifes, nightsides, nighttimes, originated, originates, overtiming, overtiring, permitting, persisting, pertaining, petrifying, philtering, pigeonites, pigmenting, predicting, preediting, prenticing, presifting, preuniting, prewriting, quietening, receipting, recruiting, rectifying, redbaiting, reemitting, refighting, reigniting, reignition, reinciting, reinviting, reknitting, relighting, repainting, repositing, reprinting, resighting, resinating, resittings, restriking, restriving, retailings, rethinking, retiringly, retraining, retrieving, retrimming, retwisting, revisiting, rivetingly, roistering, sectioning, skittering, slithering, speciating, springiest, springtide, springtime, stenciling, stiffening, stinginess, stringiest, subediting, surfeiting, swithering, televising, tensioning, terrifying, testifying, tetanising, tetanizing, theorising, theorizing, thickening, tightening, timberings, timesaving, tinselling, toenailing, trailering, trellising, trephining, trigeminal, triggering, trinketing, trisecting, twittering, unexciting, unmitering, vertigines, vesicating, vigilantes, vignetting, vignettist, whitenings, whitewings, willingest, witnessing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ignite


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

49 67 6E 69 74 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --.    -.    ..    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001001 01100111 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#103 &#110 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0067 006E 0069 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

437380758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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