(n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
(n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(2) As she was laid to rest fireworks illuminated the grey sky.
(3) Families and friends come together and fireworks displays and other celebrations are standard.
(4) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
(5) Residents of five blocks in Nottingham, called City Heights, set off fireworks to celebrate wresting control of their development from Peverel after a long legal battle.
(6) Palestinians barricaded themselves inside al-Aqsa, throwing stones and fireworks at police entering the compound.
(7) The Tunisian delivery driver who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice on Thursday sent a text message just before the attack about his supply of weapons.
(8) 11.38am: Mark Deans , dealing manager at Moneycorp, believes we could see some fireworks when the results come out.
(9) He reeled off his speech with the eclat of a wet firework.
(10) While British parliamentarians shouldn't expect rhetorical fireworks, it's possible she will add a personal flavour to her speech, as when she spoke in front of both chambers of the US Congress in 2009.
(11) Proportionally, fireworks throw up far more in the way of dioxins.
(12) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(13) And while he got in a few jabs at Jeb Bush and rolled his eyes at the obligatory protesters who shouted “we loved veterans, Trump loves war,” it didn’t have the trademark fireworks of a Trump rally.
(14) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
(15) Rightwing radicals and racist protesters threw fireworks and bottles at police, injuring 31 of them.
(16) Minor burns due to fireworks which are treated in the Casualty Department have remained constant during the past ten years.
(17) Eva Zhong, the head of exports for a fireworks manufacturer in Hunan province, said that the government's fireworks warnings were misplaced.
(18) I came back out,” she said, “and I heard ‘boom!’ I thought it was fireworks, but everything was shaking, the buildings, my body was shaking.
(19) The firework weighed 460km and, when it was set off, spanned 800m in diameter.
(20) "I hid behind a tree, and all I saw were Morsi supporters throwing stones, or fireworks, or throwing teargas canisters."
Flare
Definition:
(v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
(v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
(v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
(n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
(n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
(n.) Leaf of lard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regarding psoriasis, emotional factors have a strong correlation with onset and flare-ups.
(2) A definite dose-response relationship was demonstrated between the weal and flare areas and the three active treatments.
(3) Pretreatment with terfenadine 60 mg orally significantly inhibited the flare response to both the lower dose of antigen and to saline (P less than 0.05).
(4) Although the area of flare increased with each increase in dose from 0.1 to 10 micrograms, the areas of flare produced by 10 and 100 micrograms of histamine did not differ.
(5) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
(6) There was no clinically relevant difference between the effects of the two routes of administration on flare area.
(7) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
(8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
(9) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
(10) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
(11) Aqueous cells and flare of both eyes were measured by a laser flare-cell meter (KOWA FC 100).
(12) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(13) Both patients with previous infection of the bone had flare up of the infection which was controlled medically.
(14) After prednisone was started the total serum IgE sharply declined to a plateau and remained at this level until a flare of allergic aspergillosis occurred.
(15) The test result correlated with the activity of the disease when repeated during a flare in the 1st case, and during remission in both.
(16) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
(17) Hydroxychloroquine has now clearly been shown to prevent flares, and ancrod has been shown to improve renal disease in patients with glomerular thrombosis.
(18) The flare response to SP following capsaicin- or bradykinin-induced desensitization gradually returned to normal after 5-8 weeks.
(19) Vladimir Putin claims Ebola virus vaccine has been developed by Russia Read more The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013, almost all of which were in Sierra Leone , Guinea and Liberia.
(20) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.