After-note (n.) One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. |
Anthony's Fire () See Saint Anthony's Fire, under Saint. |
Ash-fire (n.) A low fire used in chemical operations. |
Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand. |
Bank note () Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date |
Bank note () A promissory note payable at a bank. |
Breathe (v. i.) To respire |
Breathe (v. i.) To take breath |
Breathe (v. i.) To pass like breath |
Breathe (v. t.) To inhale and exhale in the process of respiration |
Breathe (v. t.) To inject by breathing |
Breathe (v. t.) To emit or utter by the breath |
Breathe (v. t.) To exhale |
Breathe (v. t.) To express |
Breathe (v. t.) To act upon by the breath |
Breathe (v. t.) To promote free respiration in |
Breathe (v. t.) To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing |
Breathe (v. t.) To put out of breath |
Breathe (v. t.) To utter without vocality, as the nonvocal consonants. |
Case (n.) A box, sheath, or covering |
Case (n.) A box and its contents |
Case (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type. |
Case (n.) An inclosing frame |
Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings. |
Case (v. t.) To cover or protect with, or as with, a case |
Case (v. t.) To strip the skin from |
Case (n.) Chance |
Case (n.) That which befalls, comes, or happens |
Case (n.) A patient under treatment |
Case (n.) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law |
Case (n.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension |
Case (v. i.) To propose hypothetical cases. |
Case-bay (n.) The space between two principals or girders |
Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring. |
Case knife () A knife carried in a sheath or case. |
Case knife () A large table knife |
Case shot () A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister. |
Elmo's fire () See Corposant |
Explosion (n.) The act of exploding |
Explosion (n.) A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure |
Explosion (n.) A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc. |
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 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 |
base hit safety | (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely |
safety | a score in American football, a player is tackled behind his own goal line |
explosion burst | the act of exploding or bursting, the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children, the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft |
safety squeeze play safety squeeze | the runner on third base waits to start home until the batter has bunted successfully |
explosion | a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball |
case load | the number of cases handled in a given period of time (as by a court or agency) |
case study | a detailed analysis of a person or group from a social or psychological or medical point of view |
trespass on the case | an action brought to recover damages from a person whose actions have resulted indirectly in injury or loss, a person struck by a log as it was thrown onto a road could maintain trespass against the thrower but one who was hurt by stumbling over it could maintain and action on the case |
fire watching | (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky |
fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
safety blitz linebacker blitzing blitz | (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line |
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 |
neutralization fire | fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable |
observed fire | fire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer, fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations |
preparation fire | fire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault |
radar fire | gunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar |
registration fire | fire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets |
scheduled fire | prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time |
searching fire | fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun |
supporting fire | fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat |
suppressive fire | fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives |
unobserved fire | fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed |
artillery fire cannon fire | fire delivered by artillery |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
mortar fire | artillery fire delivered by a mortar |
zone fire | artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations |
pyrolatry fire-worship | the worship of fire |