(n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
(v. i.) To play on a fife.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that routine cancer registration data require extensive validation before they can be used for epidemiological purposes; case-control studies can overcome some of the methodological problems involved in investigating apparent leukaemia clusters; and further environmental investigations are needed in two post code districts of Fife.
(2) In a series of blows to Murphy this week, Alex Rowley, the MSP and former Fife council leader who was a close ally of Gordon Brown’s, has resigned his frontbench post, with three other MSPs publicly questioning Murphy’s continued role as leader.
(3) Docherty, the Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, told Radio 4’s World at One: “We have a moribund party in Scotland that seems to think that infighting is more important than campaigning.
(4) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
(5) Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, of Romany descent, he began singing his own, blues-based songs in local folk clubs, but said he was forced to leave the area because he was picked on by a local gang.
(6) For a girl who left school at 15 and started work in a Fife butcher's shop, my aunt had done well.
(7) The Daily Telegraph reported he had submitted an electricity bill for his home in Fife which partly covered a period when London was his designated second home.
(8) These attacks on the SNP's record – in Fife and in Edinburgh – were relentless and very well funded.
(9) Other results that day were: Airdrie 1-1 Clyde, East Fife 1-1 Motherwell, Falkirk 0-3 Aberdeen, Hibs 0-1 Rangers, Partick 0-1 Ayr, and St Johnstone 0-0 Dundee.
(10) Legal observers warned, however, that a sheriff sitting without a jury was limited by law to sentences of a maximum of 12 months, taking Walker under the legal threshold set by the law.Claire Baker, Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, also said that Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister and SNP deputy leader, should state publicly whether she was told in 2008 about Walker's history of domestic violence.
(11) • 182-186 Ocean Road (0191-456 1202, colmansfishandchips.com ) Anstruther Fish Bar, Fife Photograph: Alamy It's all hands on deck at Anstruther's, where the whole family pitch in with fishing and frying duties.
(12) The implications of this in relation to the future provision and pattern of long term care for the frail elderly in Fife are considerable.
(13) Social workers are firefighting instead of being allowed to do the work they are trained to do.” Similar sentiments were voiced by David Thomson, vice-convener of the Scottish Association of Social Workers and a member of BASW’s council, who works with women offenders in Fife.
(14) As a new report on the current state of the UK’s libraries reveals that more than 100 branches closed last year, a reduction of 14% in the total number of libraries since 2010 , bestselling crime novelist McDermid called the situation in Fife “disgraceful”.
(15) As her old boss Alex Salmond, out campaigning in Fife, enthused that his former protege was “wiping the floor with the Westminster old boys’ network”, Sturgeon offered words of caution: “We’ve got to see how people vote; after all, there’s a danger that all of us will get carried away with the post-match analysis.” Judging by the sheer energy and spirit of the scores of activists gathered on St John’s Road in the prosperous suburb of Costorphine, this is yet another seat the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to hold.
(16) To make any progress the sustainable options must be more attractive, and there must be progressive steps towards electrification, integration with buses and cycling, and moving freight onto rail.” Small towns, big plans: how better transport can boost the local economy Read more Three of the projects that could bring about serious shifts to sustainable transport are in Fife, in the heart of Scotland but lacking long-term investment.
(17) So off he went, running across the hills of Fife to retrieve his son's paddling pool, all the while talking about international development policy.
(18) Maybe he still cherished fond memories of the time he ventured north as a parliamentary candidate for Central Fife in a large Merc driven by a former nanny.
(19) Mr Brown, who is 50, and 37-year-old Sarah were married in a private ceremony in Fife, Scotland, in August 2000.
(20) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sturgeon claimed Labour had won by running a "relentlessly negative" campaign, focusing on a single local issue – a steep rise in care charges for some Fife residents by an SNP-led council.
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.