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fireball
noun
1 fireball
An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding).
synonym: bolide.
Roget 388:
fuel,
firing,
combustible.
[solid fuels]
coal,
wallsend†,
anthracite,
culm†,
coke,
carbon,
charcoal,
bituminous coal,
tar shale;
turf,
peat,
firewood,
bobbing,
faggot,
log;
cinder
etc.
(products of combustion)
384;
ingle,
tinder,
touchwood;
sulphur,
brimstone;
incense;
port-fire;
fire-barrel,
fireball,
brand;
amadou†,
bavin†;
blind coal,
glance coal;
German tinder,
pyrotechnic sponge,
punk,
smudge [U.S.];
solid fueled rocket.
[fuels for candles and lamps]
wax,
paraffin wax,
paraffin oil;
lamp oil,
whale oil.
[liquid fuels]
oil,
petroleum,
gasoline,
high octane gasoline,
nitromethane,
petrol,
gas,
juice [Coll.],
gasohol,
alcohol,
ethanol,
methanol,
fuel oil,
kerosene,
jet fuel,
heating oil,
number 2 oil,
number 4 oil,
naphtha;
rocket fuel,
high specific impulse fuel,
liquid hydrogen,
liquid oxygen,
lox.
[gaseous fuels]
natural gas,
synthetic gas,
synthesis gas,
propane,
butane,
hydrogen.
brand,
torch,
fuse;
wick;
spill,
match,
light,
lucifer,
congreve†,
vesuvian,
vesta†,
fusee,
locofoco†;
linstock†.
candle
etc.
(luminary)
423;
oil
etc.
(grease)
356.
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Roget 727:
arm,
arms;
weapon,
deadly weapon;
armament,
armaments,
armature;
panoply,
stand of arms;
armor
etc.
(defense)
717;
armory
etc.
(store)
636;
apparatus belli [Lat.].
ammunition;
powder,
powder and shot;
cartridge;
ball cartridge,
cartouche,
fireball;
villainous saltpeter"
[Henry IV];
dumdum bullet.
explosive;
gunpowder,
guncotton;
mercury fulminate;
picrates;
pentaerythritol tetranitrate,
PETN.
high explosive;
trinitrotoluene,
TNT;
dynamite,
melinite†,
cordite,
lyddite,
plastic explosive,
plastique;
pyroxyline†.
[knives and swords: list]
sword,
saber,
broadsword,
cutlass,
falchion†,
scimitar,
cimeter†,
brand,
whinyard,
bilbo,
glaive†,
glave†,
rapier,
skean,
Toledo,
Ferrara,
tuck,
claymore,
adaga†,
baselard†,
Lochaber ax,
skean dhu†,
creese†,
kris,
dagger,
dirk,
banger†,
poniard,
stiletto,
stylet†,
dudgeon,
bayonet;
sword-bayonet,
sword-stick;
side arms,
foil,
blade,
steel;
ax,
bill;
pole-ax,
battle-ax;
gisarme†,
halberd,
partisan,
tomahawk,
bowie knife†;
ataghan†,
attaghan†,
yataghan†;
yatacban†;
assagai,
assegai†;
good sword,
trusty sword,
naked sword;
cold steel.
club,
mace,
truncheon,
staff,
bludgeon,
cudgel,
life preserver,
shillelah,
sprig;
hand staff,
quarter staff;
bat,
cane,
stick,
knuckle duster;
billy,
blackjack,
sandbag,
waddy†.
gun,
piece [Fr.];
firearms;
artillery,
ordnance;
siege train,
battering train;
park,
battery;
cannon,
gun of position,
heavy gun,
field piece [Fr.],
mortar,
howitzer,
carronade†,
culverin†,
basilisk;
falconet,
jingal†,
swivel,
pederero†,
bouche a feu [Fr.];
petard,
torpedo;
mitrailleur [Fr.],
mitrailleuse [Fr.];
infernal machine;
smooth bore,
rifled cannon,
Armstrong gun†,
Lancaster gun,
Paixhan gun,
Whitworth gun,
Parrott gun,
Krupp gun,
Gatling gun,
Maxim gun,
machine gun;
pompom†;
ten pounder.
small arms;
musket,
musketry,
firelock†,
fowling piece [Fr.],
rifle,
fusil†,
caliver†,
carbine,
blunderbuss,
musketoon†,
Brown Bess,
matchlock,
harquebuss†,
arquebus,
haguebut†;
pistol,
postolet†;
petronel;
small bore;
breach-loader,
muzzle-loader;
revolver,
repeater;
Minis rifle,
Enfield rifle,
Flobert rifle,
Westley Richards rifle,
Snider rifle,
Martini-Henry rifle,
Lee-Metford rifle,
Lee-Enfield rifle,
Mauser rifle,
magazine rifle;
needle gun,
chassepot†;
wind gun,
air gun;
automatic gun,
automatic pistol;
escopet†,
escopette†,
gunflint,
gun-lock;
hackbut†,
shooter,
shooting iron [U.S.],
six-shooter [U.S.],
shotgun;
Uzzi,
assault rifle,
Kalashnikov.
bow,
crossbow,
balister†,
catapult,
sling;
battering ram
etc.
(impulse)
276;
gunnery;
ballistics
etc.
(propulsion)
284.
missile,
bolt,
projectile,
shot,
ball;
grape;
grape shot,
canister shot,
bar shot,
cannon shot,
langrel shot†,
langrage shot†,
round shot,
chain shot;
balista†,
ballista†,
slung shot,
trebucbet†,
trebucket†;
bullet,
slug,
stone,
brickbat,
grenade,
shell,
bomb,
carcass,
rocket;
congreve†,
congreve rocket†;
shrapnel,
mitraille [Fr.];
levin bolt†,
levin brand†;
thunderbolt.
pike,
lance,
spear,
spontoon†,
javelin,
dart,
jereed†,
jerid†,
arrow,
reed,
shaft,
bolt,
boomerang,
harpoon,
gaff;
eelspear†,
oxgoad†,
weet-weet,
wommerah†;
cattle prod;
chemical mace.
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Dutch: vuurbol
Polish: bolid
2 fireball
3 fireball
A ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning).
Dutch: vuurbol
4 fireball
The luminous center of a nuclear explosion.
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