(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
(a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
(a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
(a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
(a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(2) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
(3) The oral lesion is a fiery red, flat or micropapillary-appearing mucosa most frequently involving the gingiva and hard palate.
(4) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
(5) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(6) Inler also has a fiery side and it is a surprise to learn that it has been curbed, rather than forged, in a Neapolitan boxing ring.
(7) Plans to ramp up the US military presence in the area would probably involve flying over and sailing close to artificial islands that were only reefs before the latest building project, and China last week issued multiple warnings to a US plane flying above Fiery Cross reef, where China has built an early-warning radar station and airstrip.
(8) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(9) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(10) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
(11) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
(12) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
(13) The reaction to Osborne's announcement ranged from lukewarm praise to fiery opposition.
(14) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
(15) When the fiery Carla turns up unexpectedly from his past, Robert must choose between convention and the fraught path of love and freedom.
(16) Under the fiery title, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" , Yale law professor Amy Chua set out a manifesto for motherhood in proudly recounting her iron-fisted reign over her two young daughters, which included the prohibition of sleepovers and the insistence that they attain no grade lower than an A.
(17) (You can turn on the Food Network, the Discovery Channel, CNN or – by now – the History Channel and see a show ranking the world's best sandwiches, all without leaving the continental United States, followed by a nauseating closeup of Guy Fieri's Baconated Hamapeño Chipotle-Chicken Despair Ziggurat.)
(18) Tadic was denied by a solid Koubek save after a neat exchange with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the 52nd minute and the best the visitors could muster was a fiery mid-range effort from Lafata that Fraser Forster got a strong hand behind to force away.
(19) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
(20) He had a fiery temperament, which you may not know if you haven't played for him, if you've only watched him on TV.
Phlogiston
Definition:
(n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the 18th century, the elegant but incorrect phlogiston theory (G.E.
(2) The combined efforts of these analytical minds converted an illogical phlogiston myth into a practical and therapeutic principle.
(3) Between 1775 and about 1800 the Phlogiston theory was replaced by the Oxygen theory.
(4) In refuting the phlogiston theory, he established modern chemistry.