What's the difference between ember and fire?

Ember


Definition:

  • (n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
  • (a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The board was also asked to make recommendations for the government and council to work to minimise the risk of embers from external fires getting into the open-cut mines.
  • (2) And driving around Baltimore on Monday night, when the riots of 2015 came to town, it was difficult to tell whether this building here had burned in the wake of rising police tensions, or if that house over there had been empty since the embers of another series of riots and near-riots – in April 1968 – that left Baltimore unrepaired, in more ways than one, for nearly half a century.
  • (3) GDF Suez did not adequately recognise a fire caused by ember attack on the worked-out areas of the Hazelwood mine as a mining hazard.
  • (4) I don’t think but we have to wait.” While Stones was stretchered away in the dying embers with ankle ligament damage that should rule him out of England duty, this was a satisfying occasion all-round for United.
  • (5) "embers tell me they have seen their energy costs increase considerably in the last year, typically by 30% or more, and in one case doubling.
  • (6) England, advancing on Ireland, glows like the embers left after a bonfire , or a black dress scattered with shreds of gold leaf; Milan announces itself with starbursts of gold on dark velvet , while Cairo, fed by the glittering ribbon of the Nile (Egypt being the natural equivalent to California's graphic illiustration of our dependence on water), favours white light; central Paris declares its exclusivity , the périphérique hugging the centre tight, keeping it safe from the banlieues .
  • (7) After the boss’s intervention, she emailed him in August requesting a shot which used “no face melting, less fire in the hair, fewer embers on the face” to replace the current version of Kim’s death, which culminates in his head exploding.
  • (8) We cannot stand by until the last embers of the war have died down,” he says.
  • (9) Jim, from Tanjil South, was seeking refuge in his swimming pool as embers dropped in the water around him.
  • (10) It is difficult, as you navigate the embers and haze, to imagine anything ever growing in this desolation.
  • (11) Wait about an hour after the embers start glowing to keep pain to a minimum.
  • (12) When Muhammad Ali rumbled in the jungle with George Foreman exactly 40 years ago on Thursday, they were safely distant from the dying embers of a conflict that still engaged the more perilous commitment of 1.5 million of their compatriots in Vietnam.
  • (13) It was the embers of the Labour government and the then culture secretary Andy Burnham thought: "Why not do it ourselves?"
  • (14) Cooked on embers in boats on the sand, the must-try is espeto de sardinas (just-caught grilled sardines on a stick, €4.50).
  • (15) When the embers had cooled, Kenyans took once again to Twitter to question how well the security services had responded in the crisis.
  • (16) Insurance broker Neil Cook, of Ember JD Insurance , told Cash he is being approached by increasing numbers of leaseholders who are being charged significantly above the going rate.
  • (17) The mine is surrounded by the national park and a change in wind after the burn had ended reignited embers and carried them across containment lines, ERA said on Wednesday.
  • (18) Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “You can see the embers of unrest starting to smoulder.
  • (19) Judy said the wind pushed the fire up and down steep slopes, creating embers that sparked spot fires in different directions.
  • (20) We'll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago.

Fire


Definition:

  • (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
  • (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.
  • (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
  • (n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
  • (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
  • (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
  • (n.) Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
  • (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
  • (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
  • (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
  • (v. t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
  • (v. t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge.
  • (v. t.) To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
  • (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
  • (v. t.) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
  • (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
  • (v. t.) To drive by fire.
  • (v. t.) To cauterize.
  • (v. i.) To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
  • (v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
  • (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (4) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
  • (5) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (6) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
  • (7) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
  • (8) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (9) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
  • (10) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (11) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
  • (12) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (13) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
  • (14) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (15) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
  • (16) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
  • (17) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.
  • (18) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (19) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (20) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.