Money vs Fire - What's the difference?
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A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
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, title= A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Wealth.
An item of value between two parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
A person who funds an operation.
(as a modifier) Of or pertaining to money ; monetary.
(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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, title= (countable) The often accidental occurrence of fire in a certain place.
(uncountable, alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
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(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.
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Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
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Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
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(countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character fire a weapon.
(lb) To set (something) on fire.
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*:"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."
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*: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.
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*: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).
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*: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).
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(lb) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
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To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
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(lb) To forcibly direct (something).
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To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
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To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
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*:Love had fired my mind.
To animate; to give life or spirit to.
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To feed or serve the fire of.
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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.
As nouns the difference between money and fire
is that money is a legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply while fire is the sector of the economy including finance, insurance and real estate businesses.money
English
(money)Noun
(wikipedia money)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
Synonyms
* beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ends, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga * (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value) * (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value) * (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins) * See alsoDerived terms
* bad money * bank money * bar money * black money * blood money * bullet money * call money * cash money * caution money * checkbook money * coat money * conduct money * conscience money * cost of money * credit money * current money * deposit money * dirty money * dispatch money * door money * earnest money * easy money * even money * fiat money * folding money * foreign money * front money * full-bodied money * fun money * funny money * get one's money's worth * gun money * hard money * head money * hot money * house money * hush money * if money * in the money * key money * lawful money * mad money * maundy money * money belt * money broker * money changer * money changing * money chest * money clip * money cowrie * money crop * money doesn't grow on trees * money economy * money illusion * money laundering * moneymaker * money makes the world go round * money market * money of account * money order * money pit * money plant * money rate * money scrivener * money supply * money spider * money spinner * money's worth * Monopoly money * near-money * necessity money * neutral money * new money * old money * paper money * pin money * plastic money * plate money * play money * pocket money * power of money * price of money * prize money * protection money * push money * ready money * rent money * representative money * run for one's money * seed money * ship money * side money * silly money * sin money * sit down money * smart money * spending money * sound money * standard money * till money * time money * time is money * token money * tribute money * trophy money * up-front money * value for moneyStatistics
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* * * 1000 English basic wordsfire
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Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
- He had fire in his temper.
- And bless their critic with a poet's fire .
- Stars, hide your fires .
- As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires .
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 fireVerb
(fir)Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.}}