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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Firefly \Fire"fly`\, n.; pl. Fireflies. (Zo["o]l.) Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyrid[ae].
Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus (especially Photinus pyralis) and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elaterid[ae]. See Fire beetle.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of firefly English)
Wikipedia
Fireflies is a novel by Shiva Naipaul originally published in 1970. It was his first book, a comic novel set in Trinidad. In an essay in An Unfinished Journey, Naipaul described how in 1968 as a final year student at Oxford University studying Chinese, he had been moved to write down a sentence, which proved to be the beginning of his first novel, which he then worked on for the next two years. The novel was hailed on publication, winning the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
Writer Martin Amis said of Fireflies
Fireflies is the sixth studio album by country artist Faith Hill. The album was released on August 2, 2005. In its first week, the album sold 329,000 copies, making it the #1 album on both the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart. Fireflies is her third #1 album, and it has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for US shipments of two million copies. Hill produced the album with Byron Gallimore (who also produced for her husband, Tim McGraw) and Dann Huff. This album has sold 3.8 million copies worldwide.
Fireflies is an Australian television show which aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Australia and RTÉ One in Ireland. It debuted on 7 February 2004 and screened as 22 episodes. The series was set in the fictional country town of Lost River, population 487. The location was the actual Hunter Valley town of Wollombi, and other scenes are set in the district and along the southern end of the Putty Road to Singleton. It was centred on the lives of a group of volunteer firefighters, during the hottest, driest summer in decades. The theme song "Beautiful Feeling" was written and performed by Paul Kelly.
Fireflies is the only album by the band Rubygrass.
"Fireflies" is the debut single from American electronica project Owl City's album Ocean Eyes. Relient K vocalist Matt Thiessen is featured as a guest vocalist on the song. Adam Young described the song as "a little song about bugs and not being able to fall asleep at night." The song is built around a "bleepy" synthline and includes lyrics about insomnia, fireflies and summer.
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two non-consecutive weeks. Internationally, the song also topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. "Fireflies" was Owl City's only top forty hit in the United States until three years later when " Good Time", a duet with Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen, charted at No. 8. It has been covered by Christina Grimmie, Cheryl Cole and others.
Fireflies was used in the promotional video for Sony's EyePet video game. It is also featured in Disney Sing It: Party Hits. It is also a downloadable content for both Guitar Hero 5 and Rock Band 3.
Fireflies are rendering artifacts resulting from numerical instabilities in solving the rendering equation. They manifest themselves as anomalously-bright single pixels scattered over parts of the image.
Fireflies need to be distinguished from noise (overall graininess in the image), which can be reduced by simply increasing the number of rendering samples (amount of computation) per pixel. Fireflies tend to be harder to get rid of.
Fireflies tend to be confined to particular parts of the image, where they are caused by interactions between particular material and lighting settings that only affect certain objects in the scene.
Fireflies is a 2014 Bollywood drama film directed and produced by Sabal Singh Shekhawat. The film has an ensemble cast, which includes Rahul Khanna, Arjun Mathur, Shivani Ghai, Monica Dogra and Aadya Bedi. Rahul Khanna returns to Bollywood in Fireflies, the directorial debut venture of Sabal Singh Shekhawat.
Fireflies is the second studio album by American post-hardcore band Frodus, released in 1995 through Level Records. The album was initially going to be a glow-in-the-dark 7" single until the band decided to instead release a full-length album because it was "just as cheap". The album was initially released on CD format, limited to 1,100 copies. The album was reissued digitally in 2006, remastered and with new artwork and an alternative track listing. The band's bandcamp page also hosts another reissue of the record, also including unique cover art and track listing.
Usage examples of "fireflies".
Three Fireflies were standing outside the triangular doorway of a mud building, lost in conversation.
For reasons he could not comprehend, for all oxygen-breathers needed water and Medina was a sweltering hellhole, the Fireflies drank—sipped, really—only at sunrise and sunset.
As he was about the leave the stable, he saw a pair of Fireflies approaching him.
His mind made up, he began walking directly toward the Fireflies, staring at the ground, circling around them without missing a step.
He was just about to do so when a caravan of Fireflies and their beasts of burden passed by, laden with exotic goods.
One of the Fireflies, sitting atop its ugly mount, turned to stare at him.
Now that he was prepared, he could control his reactions—but none of the Fireflies were being bothered by insects, and if he drew enough of them, someone would start wondering why.
But the very act of walking there alone would call too much attention to himself, and he had no idea what was expected of him once he arrived, so he kept to the shadows, hoping to remain unseen, and planning to fall in behind the first group of Fireflies who emerged from their dwellings to begin the mile-long trek.
He would have liked to have simply squatted down, his back propped against a wall, and feigned sleep for the next hour, but he had no idea if Fireflies slept in such positions—the Firefly he had been incarcerated with hadn't seemed to sleep at all—and he decided not to risk it.
As quick and silent as the battle had been, Lennox still could not believe that Fireflies weren't pouring into the street to determine the cause of the commotion, and decided that, early or not, he would be safer approaching the pyramid than remaining where he was.
There were six Fireflies mounted atop their beasts, and they led a train of thirty more animals, all carrying heavy burdens, each tied halter-to-tail to the beast ahead of it.
With the sun down, four of the Fireflies had their hands and heads exposed, and he stared in fascination.
The caravan came to a halt within a quarter mile of the pyramid, and Lennox slipped into the darkness just before one of the Fireflies walked down the row of animals to make sure none had broken loose.
The Fireflies then exchanged low whispers and began walking down a path that was marked by torches.
He looked about for some sign of a priest or leader, but the only Fireflies he could see were the six members of the caravan.