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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fireproof
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Theatre curtains have to be fireproof.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Put the slice of bread on a fireproof dish and under the grill.
▪ Roebling had pioneered fireproof construction methods, especially the use of reinforced concrete.
▪ Spread this mixture on to the whole mushrooms and arrange them on a baking sheet or in a fireproof dish.
▪ The dock was built during 1841-5 with five-storey fireproof warehouses of granite, brick and cast iron on all sides.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fireproof

Fireproof \Fire"proof`\, a. Proof against fire; incombustible.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fireproof

also fire-proof, 1630s, from fire (n.) + proof. As a verb, from 1867. Related: Fireproofed; fireproofing.

Wiktionary
fireproof
  1. resistant to damage from fire. v

  2. To make resistant to damage from fire.

WordNet
fireproof
  1. adj. impervious to damage by fire

  2. v. make resistant to fire

Wikipedia
Fireproof (Pillar album)

Fireproof is Christian band Pillar's second full-length album and their most successful, having sold over 300,000 copies. It was released in at least three different versions including a Remixed version and a limited Special Edition that came with Pillar's All Day Every Day DVD and a slipcase. The track listings from the original and the reissue are very similar, rearranging the track listing a little and retitling the tracks "Just 2 Get By" to "Just to Get By" and "Further" to "Further From Myself". The title track, "Fireproof", was featured in the baseball video game MLB 2005 and on its soundtrack CD release. This is the first record to feature current guitarist Noah Henson.

Fireproof (film)

Fireproof is a 2008 American Christian drama film released by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Affirm Films, directed by Alex Kendrick, who co-wrote and co-produced it with Stephen Kendrick. The film stars Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, and Ken Bevel.

Reviews for the film were "generally unfavorable" from film critics. The film was successful at the box office, becoming a surprise hit, debuting at No. 4 and becoming the highest-grossing independent film of 2008, grossing over $33 million. It received awards from evangelical Christian organizations, including the Best Feature Film award at the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival.

Fireproof (dawn Landes album)

Fireproof is an album by American singer-songwriter dawn Landes. The album was released January 2008 in Europe on Fargo Records, and March 4, 2008 in the United States on Cooking Vinyl Records.

The song "You Alone" was featured in the 2005 film Winter Passing.

Fireproof (disambiguation)

Fireproof means resistant to damage from fire.

Fireproof may also refer to:

  • Fireproof (film), a 2008 American Christian drama film
  • Fireproof (Pillar album)
  • Fireproof (Dawn Landes album)
  • "Fireproof", a song from One Direction's 2014 album Four
Fireproof (That Petrol Emotion album)

Fireproof is the fifth and last studio album by Irish rock band That Petrol Emotion.

Usage examples of "fireproof".

The cabinet was brown with fake wood grain, fireproof, batterproof, burglarproof, made of heavy-gauge steel for the most security-minded file keepers, and the ponytailed guy was fiddling noisily with the lock.

Nicholas pivoted off his right foot and buried his left heel into the side of my fireproof, batterproof, burglarproof, heavy-gauge steel filing cabinet.

Bill was carried away by the emotion and rush of bodies and cheered as loudly as the rest and shoved his torch first at the corridor wall, then into a chair on the chairway which put the torch out, since everything in Helior is either made of metal or is fireproof.

We had fireproofed the roof with concrete tile five years before, recoated with thick fire-resistant paint in 1992, and the morning of the fire had a garden crew clearing out the volatile underbrush.

Dan could see now that in some areas the insulation was modern, rolls or batts of thick, vermin-proof, fireproof mineral fiber, doubtless underlain by a plastic vapor barrier.

The shoya, his family and all villagers, already masked against smoke and prepared within moments of the first alarm, continued to work with well-rehearsed but stoic speed to pack away valuables into the small, fireproofed brick shelters that were in every garden.

And there was a child of three that claimed he’d seen a Wise One swallow it—waterproof, radiationproof, fireproof, crashproof box and all.

Cahill sat in his cubicle, slowly leafing through the files and bank statements retrieved from the fireproof safe in Sarah's closet.

In the form of its basic salt, obtained as a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, it is used chiefly in the textile industry as a waterproofing agent, as a fireproofing agent, and as a mordant.

The one who had this grudge against Phoenix the Fireproof Fan Dancer.

During this period, a variety of patents were issued for ferromanganese, clay, marble dust, and plaster of Paris as fireproof linings for safes.

And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world (you were correct in your assumption the other night) there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes.

But after a few heartpounding moments she turned around with the fireproofed box in both hands.

The walls of these were heavily plastered with whitewashed mud, and the roofs were fireproofed by yellow-brown clay tiles.

It was a melon-size flaming ball of something, a pitchlike substance probably, trailing a length of fireproofed braided lanyard.