(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."
Pyrotechnic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pyrotechnical
Example Sentences:
(1) Leadership is not always about pyrotechnics at EU summits or staying one step ahead of the posse.
(2) It wasn’t just that she was overawed by the spectacle, although she was: stuff I took for granted – lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons, all the usual bells and whistles of a big pop show – were a constant source of overwhelming sensory overload.
(3) Breathtaking motorbike stunts, laser effects, rock music and pyrotechnics: the story of the second world war has never looked so sexy.
(4) That the Turks shot down the jet and did so within 17 seconds – with the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , saying he gave the order to fire himself – suggests very strongly they were waiting for a Russian plane to come into or close enough to Turkish airspace with the aim of delivering a rather pyrotechnic message.
(5) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(6) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
(7) Conventional wisdom suggests that Manchester United's defence is the rock on which their serial title successes have been built, the reliable platform that allows all the pyrotechnics up front to take place.
(8) The method used here could be applied to other pyrotechnic mixtures which give rise to complex mixtures of products.
(9) No verbal pyrotechnics here, nothing to challenge a conservative aesthetics biased against the house of fiction itself.
(10) But officials at Peta were much less happy with Beyoncé's half-time appearance – not because of the pyrotechnic electric guitar, the subsequent power outage , or even her decision to skip the song, If I Were a Boy.
(11) We also don't know what type of pyrotechnics were used."
(12) Gunpowder was difficult and dangerous to ignite at sea so, using pyrotechnic technology, Coston found a way that the flares could be hand-held and incorporate an ingenious self-igniting device.
(13) The Gavin & Stacey star showed no sign of going through the motions, interrupting Prince on-stage to take a selfie – which he subsequently tweeted – and using Arctic Monkeys' pyrotechnics to set his arm alight, albeit as a joke.
(14) Past outlandish displays from the American have included full facial masks, exploding bras and pyrotechnics.
(15) 8.34pm: From the emails: Susan Smillie - "The person responsible for the pyrotechnics on stage at the brits toneet is the nephew of Henry Cooper, he's called Alex Cooper (he works with my partner).
(16) In his youth Peter Brook was famed for his pyrotechnic dazzle.
(17) Click here to watch video Given its huge success and indeed the hullaballoo that surrounded its release – the snatches of it dropped into ad breaks during Saturday Night Live, the rapturously-received premiere of the video at the Coachella Festival – there's something appealingly low-key and unassuming about Get Lucky itself, particularly in the context of current pop music: no vocal pyrotechnics, no chorus signposted by a huge instrumental breakdown, and – a short burst of vocoder aside – none of the sonic trademarks of Daft Punk records that have subsequently become the sonic trademarks of noughties pop ("gimmicks that didn't used to be gimmicks," as Thomas Bangalter wryly described them).
(18) It appears that cases occurred only where this oily lubricant was used to manufacture near submicron-sized pyrotechnic flake (ie, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden), but never where similar flake has been manufactured for almost a century using polar lubricants.
(19) The standard criticism of Wallace's work is that for all its peerless pyrotechnics, it lacked heart.
(20) Metallica offered, in many ways, the most stripped-down show of all – though they had screens, they didn't have the enormous pyrotechnics and effects of their traditional stage show.