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FIRE PLUG

Definition: FIRE PLUG

FIRE PLUG

1. A street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: FIRE PLUG

Specialty definitions using "FIRE PLUG": CUPOLA OPERATOR, INSULATIONfoam plughigh-expansion foam. (references)

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Modern Usage: FIRE PLUG

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Fire Plug (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FIRE PLUG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  fire plug

5

  fire plug split

3

  fire plug rapid spark

2

  ac delco fire plug rapid spark

2

  cap fire plug

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FIRE PLUG

Language Translations for "FIRE PLUG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

slukningsapparat (fire hydrant), hane til brandslange (fire hydrant), brandhane (fire hydrant, hydrant). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

brandkraan (fire hydrant, hydrant). (various references)

   

French

  

bouche d'incendie (fire hydrant). (various references)

   

German

  

Feuerlöschhydrant (fire hydrant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στόμιο πυροσβεστικού σωλήνα (fire hydrant). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bocca d'incendio (fire hydrant). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irefay ugplay

   

Portuguese

  

boca de incêndios (fire hydrant). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

boca de incendios (fire hydrant). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FIRE PLUG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fireplug.

Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-l-p-r-u"

-1 letter: gulfier, gulpier.

-2 letters: figure, gluier, gulper, ireful, ligure, pilfer, purfle, reguli, uglier.

-3 letters: filer, flier, fugle, gluer, grief, gripe, gruel, guile, lifer, liger, luger, peril, plier, puler, purge, rifle.

-4 letters: file, fire, flip, flue, frig, frug, fuel, furl, girl, glue, grip, grue, gulf, gulp, iglu, lief, lier, lieu, life, lipe, lire, luge, lure, pelf.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-l-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: fireplugs.

 

+3 letters: prestigeful.

 

+5 letters: prequalifying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FIRE PLUG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 52 45      50 4C 55 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001100 01010101 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#76 &#85 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0052 0045      0050 004C 0055 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40435239250465541

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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