(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.
Firman
Definition:
(n.) In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Does that start locally?” asks John Firman, director of research at the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
(2) He certainly seems to have exploited his firman or licence from the Sultan to remove "stones with inscriptions and figures" from the building with an enthusiasm that did not escape the critical notice of contemporary observers .
(3) The absence of that database right now is a really tough thing, for everybody,” said John Firman, research director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the 120-year old police membership organization.
(4) At the time of the carvings’ removal, the Acropolis was a citadel and Elgin (though this does not justify his mutilation of the monument) would have required a firman, or written decree, to cart them away.
(5) The rest of the 60 US troops are stationed in Uganda , South Sudan and Congo, where they will continue normal operations, said Major Robert Firman, a Pentagon spokesman.
(6) But, she added: "These pieces were acquired during the course of two British initiatives, both with firmans – legal permits issued by the Ottoman authorities – that granted permission for the excavation of the site and removal of the material from the site … to the British Museum."
(7) In the dozen thrillers Ambler wrote between the 1950s and the 80s there is a falling off of interest in the leftish political themes of his earlier books, as he becomes ever more intrigued by the shady, unsavoury characters whom he would once have cast as villains - an outstanding example is Paul Firman, the narrator of Send No More Roses (1977).