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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : fahyuh r |
| Phonetic Transcription : faɪər |
Definition of take fire
Origin :- c.1200, furen, figurative, "arouse, excite;" literal sense of "set fire to" is from late 14c., from fire (n.). The Old English verb fyrian "to supply with fire" apparently did not survive into Middle English.
- The sense of "sack, dismiss" is first recorded 1885 in American English (earlier "throw (someone) out" of some place, 1871), probably from a play on the two meanings of discharge: "to dismiss from a position," and "to fire a gun," fire in the second sense being from "set fire to gunpowder," attested from 1520s. Of bricks, pottery, etc., from 1660s. Related: Fired; firing. Fired up "angry" is from 1824. Firing squad is attested from 1904.
- As in ignite : verb set on fire
- Burke was not a man to take fire because he thought a principle false.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- Young Ellwell was too miserable to take fire at this brutality.
- Extract from : « The Man Who Wins » by Robert Herrick
- It is impossible to tell where Raleigh's pen will take fire.
- Extract from : « Raleigh » by Edmund Gosse
- Sawdust in contact with vegetable oil is very likely to take fire.
- Extract from : « Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction » by James Braidwood
- This building was one of the first to take fire on Fifth street.
- Extract from : « Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror » by Richard Linthicum
- This rapid compression of the air will cause the fungus to take fire.
- Extract from : « The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft » by Dan Beard
- These are the marshes which in every part are subject to take fire.
- Extract from : « The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3) » by Strabo
- It is objectionable chiefly from being liable to take fire spontaneously when left for some time moistened with oil.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- Potassium placed on alcohol does not take fire, unless a considerable per-centage of water be present.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- Does not take fire or explode if the lamp be upset or broken.
- Extract from : « Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 » by Various
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