Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that extinguishes, especially.
- noun Any of various portable mechanical devices for spraying and extinguishing a fire with chemicals.
- noun A small metal cone or cup on a long handle, used for snuffing out candles; a snuffer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which extinguishes, or suppresses or puts out of existence.
- noun A portable apparatus for extinguishing fire. See
fire-extinguisher .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
- noun a portable device designed to deliver chemicals, usually in a stream, that can suppress or extinguish a fire. Examples of fire extinghuishers are a
carbon dioxide extinguisher , orCO2 extinguisher , andsoda-acid extinguisher .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
extinguishes something; but especially afire extinguisher
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires
Etymologies
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Examples
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You've probably heard that fire needs oxygen to burn (indeed, the principle behind CO2 fire extinguisher is to use the heavier carbon dioxide to displace the oxygen needed by the flame).
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Compare this to the roughly 16, 000 murders, 89,000 rapes, 441,000 robberies, and 834,000 assaults and tell me whether a gun or a fire extinguisher is more paranoid.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Major legal win for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus 2010
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If your fire extinguisher is depressurized or broken, replace it.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
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I got in trouble for doing on the job research - no dictionaries in the classroom and I needed to spell the word extinguisher - so I found the nearest fire extinguisher and copied down the spelling.
Bookending Michael Alan Nelson 2008
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The extinguisher label The extinguisher label gives operating instructions and identifies the class, or classes, of fire on which the extinguisher may be used safely.
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Make sure the pin is in place (it has not been damaged) and the extinguisher is at the correct pressure.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
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Andrade stated in the calls that people in jail were afraid of him because of his reputation for wielding a fire extinguisher, which is the suspected murder weapon.
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The phone calls were also laden with derogatory remarks towards homosexuals, and he stated that people in jail are scared of him because of his reputation for wielding a fire extinguisher, which is the suspected murder weapon.
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The phone calls were also laden with derogatory remarks towards homosexuals, and he stated that people in jail are scared of him because of his reputation for wielding a fire extinguisher, which is the suspected murder weapon.
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Andrade stated in the calls that people in jail were afraid of him because of his reputation for wielding a fire extinguisher, which is the suspected murder weapon.
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