(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.
Stove
Definition:
() of Stave
() imp. of Stave.
(n.) A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; -- formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts.
(n.) An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes.
(v. t.) To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees.
(v. t.) To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, isotypes to HCHO-HSA resulted from the exposure and no other sources, such as smoking, mobile home residency, and use of wood stoves.
(2) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
(3) We have attempted to develop the studies initiated by Poindexter,Stove and Stanier, and Schmidt and Stanier (16, 17, 20) with the Caulobacter genus so that these bacteria can serve as a model system for prokaryotic differentiation.
(4) They are furnished with raised wooden floors, good beds, small kitchens and even wood-burning stoves; six have front decks.
(5) Airborne particles from living rooms which were heated by stoves, or by fire places, and from outdoors were collected simultaneously.
(6) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(7) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(8) A new field sampler has been developed for measuring the particulate matter (PM) and carbon monoxide emissions of woodburning stoves.
(9) An increasing number of families in the United States are converting to woodburning stoves in an effort to reduce winter heating bills.
(10) These individuals have frequently reduced mobility and may risk falling while filling their stoves.
(11) Kelly said it was mostly up to governments to curb pollution levels, through legislation, measures such as moving power stations away from big cities and providing cheap alternatives to indoor wood and coal stoves.
(12) "I have a gas stove, so with a little bit of a flame the gas worked, and we are, we had dinner, we had our coffee, so we were ok." Adam Gabbatt Horizon Diner in Manahawkin, west of Long Beach Island, serving customers displaced by Sandy.
(13) Stoves were the main specified ignition agent for nightclothes (36%).
(14) Backing an initiative by Merseyside-based kitchen appliance firm Stoves for a new Made in Britain mark, Miliband said they were "three words we don't hear enough, or see enough".
(15) A conventional stove, manufactured in the Boise area, was tested at altitudes of 90 and 825 m. A catalytic stove was tested only at the high altitude facility.
(16) Kerosene pressure stove accidents occurred commonly in the age group 16-35 years and were rare in other age groups.
(17) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
(18) He conceded that the flat was heated with coal stoves and said it was directly above a flat that a neighbouring tenant rented just for his dogs.
(19) ‘I hope the stove works’ Recent letters appear to show how militants are currently idealising elements of jihadi culture.
(20) They are minute, it's true – no amount of creative photography can conceal the proximity of the beds to the stoves or indeed the toilets.