Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being kindled into flame; inflammable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Capable of burning, especially a liquid.
- adj. Easily set on fire.
- adj. Subject to easy ignition and rapid flaming combustion.
- n. Any flammable substance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Inflammable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. easily ignited
Etymologies
- From Latin flammāre, to set fire to, from flamma, flame; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Yes | No | Report from panfishman wrote 22 weeks 5 days ago cotton burns good, cotton soaked in flammable stuff burns really good, a soda can filled to the very top with gasoline will light a fire that is buried under ten inches of snow. the trick is finding what burns best and what lights it easiest.”
“They look like a man made fabric, so very flammable is the answer.”
“These are the people we should be on the look-out for, not just some loser in flammable Adidas who can't work a child-proof Bic lighter.”
“The facility had no site map indicating where hazardous materials were stored as required by law, and employees had failed to properly label flammable materials including gasoline.”
“It's highly flammable, which is why firefighters had to finish extinguishing hotspots before investigators could get to the dead men inside.”
“Cough syrups and other medicines often contained alcohol, which is classified as a flammable liquid.”
“Carbon dioxide is non-flammable, which is important because electrosurgical devices are commonly used in laparoscopic procedures.”
“Conifer dominance itself promotes the occurrence of large, landscape scale fires through characteristics such as flammable foliage and ladder fuels (defined by Helms [19] as “combustible material that provides vertical continuity between vegetation strata and allows fire to climb into the crowns of trees or shrubs with relative ease”).”
“MIKE BROOKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fred, we believe it was some kind of flammable liquid.”
“OK, I'm off to look up "flammable" and "inflammable", just to restore some order to my world.”
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