What's the difference between fireman and firemen?
Fireman
Definition:
(n.) A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
(n.) A man who tends the fires, as of a steam engine; a stocker.
Example Sentences:
(1) But we don't have a go at a fireman if someone is killed in a fire."
(2) Some abnormalities (increased VC, decreased RV) are typical of diving activities, but the deterioration of effort-dependent expiratory flow values and alveolar-capillary diffusion must be ascribed to specific nuisances (fumes, polluants, toxic substances) associated with fireman's activities.
(3) Her parents, a midwife and a retired fireman, said they were proud of their supremely focussed, "no fuss" daughter.
(4) One of these kids could be the next engineer, the next politician, fireman, cop.
(5) This rule has been applied primarily to police applicants, secondarily to fireman applicants, and rarely to other.
(6) My friend Vince, he's a fireman – he borrows my car sometimes and it's a running joke at the fire station – he's never been stopped."
(7) It is the obvious anguish of Stephen Thomasson, 65, a retired fireman, that suggests some may now be thinking the previously unthinkable.
(8) Refugees are our future spouses, best friends, or soulmates, the drummer for the band of our children, our next colleague, Miss Iceland in 2022, the carpenter who finally finished the bathroom, the cook in the cafeteria, the fireman, the computer genius, or the television host.” Syrian refugees: four million people forced to flee as crisis deepens Read more Many of those posting on the group have said they would offer up their homes and skills to help refugees integrate.
(9) "At the bottom of one slide, a fireman tried to protect those already lying on the floor from those coming down the slide by lying across the bottom of the slide."
(10) The recent kerfuffle provoked by the film of the off-duty fireman chucking the alleged fair dodger off the train in Scotland has opened an interesting debate about this issue.
(11) She told Ebony magazine that her partner, Ian, "was a Royal Marine, then a fireman, then a Cambridge graduate in chemistry.
(12) Three cases (a chemist with exposure to halogenated aromatic compounds and aliphatic amines, a pipefitter with exposure to asbestos, and a machinist with exposures to cutting oils, solvents, and abrasives) and one of 28 controls (a fireman with multiple hazardous exposures) had an occupational risk factor.
(13) Casting about for a career, he settled on being a fireman, because a fireman is an indisputably essential guy, right?
(14) Asked if she planned to be present for the execution, she replied without hesitation “oh, I’ll be there every step of the way.” Michael Ward, an off-duty fireman who was one of the first responders on the scene, put it more succinctly.
(15) features shows including Peppa Pig, Fireman Sam and Thomas & Friends.
(16) The cases are classified, by correlation of clinical and histopathological data as a variant of Fireman's disease.
(17) As a volunteer fireman he was on duty during the Luftwaffe's 1942 attacks on Bath, and his account of civilian life and preparations for D-day in June 1944 from his vantage point as maintenance manager at a US army camp is as engrossing as his tales of trench life.
(18) A fireman inspected Hope’s installation and told him he was OK to carry on.
(19) The capacity for barefaced lying infuriated and exasperated the legions of diplomats and mediators who dealt with Milosevic, for years treating him as the chief fireman rather than chief arsonist.
(20) They had two sons, Matt, a director of the McLaren Formula One team, and Foff (Francis), a West Sussex fireman.
Firemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Fireman
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of these studies were compared with those obtained in a sample of nonfiremen residing in the Los Angeles area who were matched by computer with the firemen for anthropomorphic characteristics and smoking status.
(2) Many of the variables deteriorated in both firemen and controls, but the rate of deterioration was greater in the controls than the firemen for vital capacity, ratio of residual volume to total lung capacity, FEV1, FVC, peak expiratory flow (PEF), flow at 50% and 25% remaining vital capacity (V50 and V25 respectively), and airways resistance (Raw).
(3) Non-smoking firemen had the highest mean value of AME, decreasing through ex-smokers, controls, and smokers.
(4) The toxic hazard from cyanide produced in fires was assessed in casualties and in firemen exposed to the fire atmosphere.
(5) Protective vaccination against hepatitis B was carried out on 91 professional firemen employed in the emergency service of the municipal fire brigade, as part of the medical care offered to the public service bodies and provided for by Federal German legislation.
(6) As for the BAEPs, both click threshold and latencies showed that the impairment was most severe in the groups of maintenance workers and firemen.
(7) Among high risk subjects in the Rome area, Hantaan antibody was found in mammalogists (10%) and dialysis patients (6%), while none of the trappers, oarsmen, river policemen and firemen studied tested positive for antibodies to hantaviruses.
(8) It was a pure accident of networking that so many of them turned out to be firemen, but she is thrilled with the situation.
(9) They may also be applicable by untrained public service personnel (police and firemen), individuals in geographically inaccessible areas (aircraft), or emergency medical technicians in rural areas where skill retention is a significant problem.
(10) I’d say that’s my biggest transformation in 10 years: understanding the power of commerce to make or break lives, and that it cannot be given into as the dominating force in our lives.” Bono, who describes himself as a “natural social democrat”, said Ireland had benefited from “more hospitals and firemen and teachers because of [our tax] policies”.
(11) He was resuscitated at home by the firemen before admission in hospital, where he presented coma, convulsions and a massive distension of the abdomen.
(12) The results indicated a better adaptation of the professional compared to the volunteer firemen to work in the heat, although the degree of heat acclimatization was considered to be equally minimal in both groups.
(13) The Chernobyl accident (USSR) in 1986 resulted in extensive contamination of the environment, with non-negligible doses to the population around the plant and large collective doses in the northern hemisphere; in addition, the Chernobyl accident caused the deaths of 31 workers and firemen who intervened to bring the installation back under control.
(14) The great procession on shore comprised a number of French societies, but was composed mainly of troops, of army veterans, firemen from New York and many other American cities, sailors, schoolboys, and policemen.
(15) In a model study, 115 firemen and ambulance emergency personnel were trained in a 12-hour course to use conventional defibrillators prior to the arrival of an emergency care physician for treating patients with ventricular fibrillation.
(16) Although firemen did not differ significantly from controls, casualities showed significant elevation of blood-cyanide, and in a small proportion of fatalities blood-cyanide reached toxic levels.
(17) In a four year study of symptoms in a group of 96 firemen (31 non-smokers, 40 smokers, and 25 ex-smokers) of which 89 remained in the study for its full duration a volunteer control group of 69 male non-smokers from a variety of occupations was also followed up.
(18) The frequency of respiratory symptoms, the results of spirometric and plethysmographic studies, and the single-breath nitrogen washout were similar in the firemen, compared with the matched sample, whereas closing volume was higher in the matched controls.
(19) "They [the board] were fighting a fire and they needed to be sure the firemen weren't going to leave," said Myners.
(20) It is a city in the process of ceasing to be a city, its services run down, its ambulances limping forlornly forth from ageing hospitals, its police and firemen barely able to cope.