Fire vs Rapture - What's the difference?

Fire is a related term of rapture.

As a noun fire

is the sector of the economy including finance, insurance and real estate businesses.

As a proper noun rapture is

(christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of christian believers from the earth before the tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of jesus christ.

fire

English

Noun

(uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.

(countable) Something that has produced or is capable of producing this chemical reaction, such as a campfire.

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(countable) The often accidental occurrence of fire in a certain place.

(uncountable, alchemy) One of the four basic elements.

(countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).

(countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.

(uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.

Strength of passion, whether love or hate.

* Atterbury

He had fire in his temper.

Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.

* (Alexander Pope)

And bless their critic with a poet's fire .

Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.

* (William Shakespeare)

Stars, hide your fires .

* (John Milton)

As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires .

(countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character fire a weapon.

Derived terms

* all-fire * add fuel to the fire * back fire * balefire * ball of fire * baptism of fire * bonfire * brush-fire * brush fire * bushfire * campfire * catch fire * ceasefire * covering fire * electric fire * fiery * fight fire with fire * fire alarm * fire and brimstone * fire away * firearm * fireball * fire bay * fire beater * fireblast * firebolt * firebomb * firebrand * firebreak * fire brigade * firebug * fireclay * fire company * firecracker * fire department * firedog * fire drill * fire eater * fire engine * fire escape * fire exit * fire extinguisher * fire-fight * firefight * firefighter * fire flapper * firefly * fireguard * fire hose * firehouse * fire hydrant * fire in the belly * firelighter * fireman * fireplace * fireplug * fireproof * fire resistant * fire retardant * fireshine * fire ship * fire station * fireside * fire sign * fire-starter * fire step * firestop * fire swab * fire swatter * fire teaser * fire trench * fire truck * fire up * firewire * firewoman * firewood * firework * forest fire * friendly fire * gas fire * grassfire * grass fire * Greek fire * hang fire * heap coals on fire * hold your fire * hold someone's feet to the fire * irons in the fire * light someone's fire * no smoke without fire * on fire * open fire * ordeal of fire * play with fire * Promethean fire * pull out of the fire * rapid fire * real fire * St Anthony's fire * St Elmo's fire * trial by fire

Verb

(fir)

(lb) To set (something) on fire.

* Chapter 20:

*:"Then I slipped up again with a box of matches, fired' my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." ¶ "You '''fired''' the house!" exclaimed Kemp. ¶ "' Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail—and no doubt it was insured."

*1907 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel)

*:It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.

(lb) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.

*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired -in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

(lb) To drive away by setting a fire.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

(lb) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).

*1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.226:

*:The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired ’.

(lb) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse of stream of something).

(lb) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.

To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

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To cause an action potential in a cell.

(lb) To forcibly direct (something).

To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).

To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:Love had fired my mind.

To animate; to give life or spirit to.

To feed or serve the fire of.

To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.

(lb) To cauterize.

To catch fire; to be kindled.

To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

Synonyms

* (set on fire) See set on fire * (sense) let off, loose (archery), shoot, * (terminate the employment of) dismiss, be given one's cards, be given the boot]], be given the elbow, [[heave-ho, be given the old heave-ho, let go, make redundant, sack, throw out * (sense) open fire, shoot * See also

Antonyms

* (to terminate the employment) hire

Derived terms

* fire away * fire off * fire up * firing * overfired * ! * underfired * unfirable * you're fired

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External links

* (wikipedia "fire")

Anagrams

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rapture

English

Noun

(en noun)

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

* Addison

Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture .

* 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:

Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VII

My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."

In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")

(obsolete) The act of kidnapping]] or [[abduct, abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.

* Chapman

That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture .

* 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:

With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

(Shakespeare)

References

Verb

(raptur)

(dated) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

* 2012 , The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit , page 138:

She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.

(dated) To experience great happiness or excitement.

To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the .

* 2010 , Gerald Mizejewski, ?Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)

The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah

* 2011 , Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie (ISBN 0758271816)

“Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured'. But, Baptists get ' raptured , don't they?”

(rare) To take part in the .

* 2001 , Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel , page 320:

"If she's raptured ," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then "

(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

* 1885 , Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman , page 158:

And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.

* 2003 , Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams , page 75:

Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.

* 2003 , Beverly Adam, Irish Magic , page 121:

They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.

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