English words for '(US) A fire engine.'
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noun
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
- (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- A complex machine or instrument.
- (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
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noun
noun
- (firefighting) An emergency response to a fire by the fire department with manpower and equipment.
- An electromechanical or electronic bell, klaxon, chime, horn, speaker, strobe light or other device which warns people in a building etc. of a possible fire or other condition requiring evacuation.
- The sound or other warning made by a fire alarm.
- a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
- an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke
noun
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
- the operator of a railway locomotive
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
verb
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
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verb
noun
- (firefighting) Short for triple combination engine.
- (baseball) A three-base hit.
- (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
- (cricket) Three runs.
- (basketball) A three-point field goal.
- (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
- Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
- (US) A hamburger with three patties.
- a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
- a quantity that is three times as great as another
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
adj
verb
noun
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- a unit of firefighters including their equipment
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
- (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
- the state of being with someone
- a social gathering of guests or companions
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- a social or business visitor
- an institution created to conduct business
- organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
- small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
verb
noun
noun
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- (figurative) A regression.
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
verb
- To retract or take back.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- (US, Canada) An internal combustion engine that runs on gasoline; especially, a reciprocating one.
- An internal combustion engine that runs on a fuel gas (a gaseous fuel) such as natural gas or producer gas; especially, a reciprocating one, typically a large stationary engine in power plant or industrial use.
- an internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor
noun
- (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- (music) The E string of a violin.
- (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
- (music) An interval of one fifth.
- (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
noun
noun
- British name for a fire department
- (firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of extinguishing fires, usually in addition to their normal job.
- a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires
- (firefighting, UK, Ireland) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.
- (military, US) A trained unit that can be rapidly deployed to deal with any difficult situation.
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name
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- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
noun
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
- (informal) A vampire.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- an improvised musical accompaniment
- piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
verb
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- (ambitransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
- (intransitive) To cosplay a vampire.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- act seductively with (someone)
- piece (something old) with a new part
noun
- (firefighting) Ellipsis of squad truck.
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- a smallest army unit
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
verb
verb
- (firefighting) To carry out an overhaul.
- To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
- (nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
- To pass, overtake, or travel past.
- (transitive) To search (a ship) for contraband goods.
- travel past
- make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
noun
- (firefighting) The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.
- A major repair, renovation, or revision.
- the act of improving by renewing and restoring
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
noun
- (colloquial) A firefighter.
- (eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
- A person who fights; a combatant.
- A participant in boxing or any martial art.
- (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
- A warrior; a fighting soldier.
- A pugnacious, competitive person.
- A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starfighter
- a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
- someone who fights for a cause
- someone who fights (or is fighting)
noun
- (US) A military or heavy construction vehicle.
- A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
- (automotive) Tractor unit. Or, more specifically, the front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
- A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
- (philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
noun
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
- (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- A complex machine or instrument.
- (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
noun
noun
noun
- (firefighting) An emergency response to a fire by the fire department with manpower and equipment.
- An electromechanical or electronic bell, klaxon, chime, horn, speaker, strobe light or other device which warns people in a building etc. of a possible fire or other condition requiring evacuation.
- The sound or other warning made by a fire alarm.
- a shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out
- an alarm that is tripped off by fire or smoke
noun
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
- the operator of a railway locomotive
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
verb
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
noun
verb
noun
- (firefighting) Short for triple combination engine.
- (baseball) A three-base hit.
- (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
- (cricket) Three runs.
- (basketball) A three-point field goal.
- (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
- Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
- (US) A hamburger with three patties.
- a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
- a quantity that is three times as great as another
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
adj
verb
noun
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- a unit of firefighters including their equipment
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
- (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
- the state of being with someone
- a social gathering of guests or companions
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- a social or business visitor
- an institution created to conduct business
- organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
- small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
verb
noun
noun
- A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- (geology) An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
- The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- (figurative) A regression.
- (fluid mechanics) Flow over a backward-facing step.
- A step backwards
verb
- To retract or take back.
- To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
- To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- To return to a previous place or time.
- (geology, of a shoreline) To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- To take a step backwards
noun
- (US, Canada) An internal combustion engine that runs on gasoline; especially, a reciprocating one.
- An internal combustion engine that runs on a fuel gas (a gaseous fuel) such as natural gas or producer gas; especially, a reciprocating one, typically a large stationary engine in power plant or industrial use.
- an internal-combustion engine similar to a gasoline engine but using natural gas instead of gasoline vapor
noun
- (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- (music) The E string of a violin.
- (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
- (music) An interval of one fifth.
- (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
noun
noun
- British name for a fire department
- (firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of extinguishing fires, usually in addition to their normal job.
- a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires
- (firefighting, UK, Ireland) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.
- (military, US) A trained unit that can be rapidly deployed to deal with any difficult situation.
noun
name
noun
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
noun
- (US, slang) A volunteer firefighter.
- (informal) A vampire.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
- (by extension) An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- (music) A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her; femme fatale.
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- an improvised musical accompaniment
- piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
verb
- (transitive) Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- (ambitransitive, music, specifically) To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
- (ambitransitive, now dialectal) To travel by foot; to walk.
- (transitive) To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- (transitive, shoemaking) To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- (transitive, intransitive) To seduce or exploit someone.
- (intransitive) To cosplay a vampire.
- (intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- (fiction, slang, transitive) To turn (someone) into a vampire.
- (transitive) To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- act seductively with (someone)
- piece (something old) with a new part
noun
- (firefighting) Ellipsis of squad truck.
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- a smallest army unit
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A firefighter.
- (eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.
- A person who fights; a combatant.
- A participant in boxing or any martial art.
- (video games) A game with a focus on physical combat.
- A warrior; a fighting soldier.
- A pugnacious, competitive person.
- A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starfighter
- a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
- someone who fights for a cause
- someone who fights (or is fighting)
noun
- (US) A military or heavy construction vehicle.
- A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
- (automotive) Tractor unit. Or, more specifically, the front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
- A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
- (philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
- an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause
verb
- (firefighting) To carry out an overhaul.
- To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
- (nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.
- To pass, overtake, or travel past.
- (transitive) To search (a ship) for contraband goods.
- travel past
- make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
noun
- (firefighting) The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite.
- A major repair, renovation, or revision.
- the act of improving by renewing and restoring
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
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