Anthony's Fire () See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. |
Ash-fire (n.) A low fire used in chemical operations. |
Bond service () The condition of a bond servant |
Bord service () Service due from a bordar |
Elmo's fire () See Corposant |
Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies |
Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace. |
Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town |
Fire (n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire. |
Fire (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate |
Fire (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy |
Fire (n.) Splendor |
Fire (n.) Torture by burning |
Fire (n.) The discharge of firearms |
Fire (v. t.) To set on fire |
Fire (v. t.) To subject to intense heat |
Fire (v. t.) To inflame |
Fire (v. t.) To animate |
Fire (v. t.) To feed or serve the fire of |
Fire (v. t.) To light up as if by fire |
Fire (v. t.) To cause to explode |
Fire (v. t.) To drive by fire. |
Fire (v. t.) To cauterize. |
Fire (v. i.) To take fire |
Fire (v. i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion. |
Fire (v. i.) To discharge artillery or firearms |
Fire beetle () A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America |
Fire-fanged (a.) Injured as by fire |
Fire-new (a.) Fresh from the forge |
Fire-set (n.) A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker. |
Knight service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. |
Knobbling fire () A bloomery fire. See Bloomery. |
Protection (n.) The act of protecting, or the state of being protected |
Protection (n.) That which protects or preserves from injury |
Protection (n.) A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest |
Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation |
Service () Alt. of Service |
Service () A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. |
Service (n.) The act of serving |
Service (n.) The deed of one who serves |
Service (n.) Office of devotion |
Service (n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches. |
Service (n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge |
Service (n.) Useful office |
Service (n.) Profession of respect |
Service (n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it |
Service (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law |
Service (n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc. |
Service (n.) The act of serving the ball. |
Service (n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13. |
service | the performance of duties by a waiter or servant, that restaurant has excellent service |
curb service | service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles |
self-service | the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
enfilade enfilade fire | gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation |
overhaul inspection and repair service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
service serving service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
service cutback | the act of reducing service |
serve service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play, his powerful serves won the game |
service | work done by one person or group that benefits another, budget separately for goods and services |
consulting service | service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) |
advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
attestation service attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him |
military service | land tenure by service in the lord's army |
knight's service | land tenure by service to the lord as a knight |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
service | employment in or work for another, he retired afteryears of service |
public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service) |
sea-duty service abroad shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
protection tribute | payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence, every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection |
fire watching | (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky |
protection | the activity of protecting someone or something, the witnesses demanded police protection |
self-defense self-defence self-protection | the act of defending yourself |
servicing service | the act of mating by male animals, the bull was worth good money in servicing fees |
extension extension service university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
reconnaissance by fire | a method of reconnaissance in which fire is placed on a suspected enemy position in order to cause the enemy to disclose his presence by moving or returning fire |
fire firing | the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy, hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes, they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire |
antiaircraft fire | firing at enemy aircraft |
barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops, the shelling went on for hours without pausing |
call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
close supporting fire | fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it |
cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
deep supporting fire | fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications |
direct supporting fire | fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) |
concentrated fire massed fire | fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships) |
counterbattery fire | fire delivered to neutralize or destroy indirect fire weapon systems |
countermortar fire | mortar fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons |
counterpreparation fire | intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered |
destruction fire | fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects |
direct fire | fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it |
distributed fire | fire dispersed so as to engage effectively an area target |
friendly fire fratricide | fire that injures or kills an ally |
hostile fire | fire that injures or kills an enemy |
grazing fire | fire approximately parallel to the ground, the center of the cone of fire does rise above meter from the ground |
harassing fire | fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale |
indirect fire | fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons |
interdiction fire | fire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area |