Crossword clues for firestorm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds. 2 An intense or violent response.
WordNet
n. a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area
an outburst of controversy; "the incident triggered a political firestorm"
Wikipedia
A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. Although the word has been used to describe certain large fires, the phenomenon's determining characteristic is a fire with its own storm-force winds from every point of the compass. The Black Saturday bushfires and the Great Peshtigo Fire are possible examples of forest fires with some portion of combustion due to a firestorm. Firestorms can also occur in cities, usually as a deliberate effect of targeted explosives such as occurred as a result of the aerial firebombings of Hamburg, Dresden, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Firestorm is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein debuted as the first incarnation in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man No. 1 (March 1978) and was created by Gerry Conway and Al Milgrom. Ronnie Raymond (by himself as the second incarnation) debuted in Firestorm the Nuclear Man vol. 2 No. 100 (August 1990), and was created by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake. Jason Rusch (as the third incarnation) debuted in Firestorm vol. 3 No. 1, (July 2004), and was created by Dan Jolley and Chris Cross.
Firestorm is a science fiction novel by David Sherman and Dan Cragg. It is set in the 25th Century in Sherman and Cragg's StarFist saga. "Firestorm more concludes the Ravenette campaign for the 34th fist and the Force Recon (introduced in Backshot, and expands in Recoil, two books of a three book sub series).
Firestorm is the second studio album by Russian symphonic black metal band Tvangeste. It was released on 1 September 2003 via now-defunct Japanese record label Worldchaos Production. It is available in two formats: the usual jewel case CD and the digipak, which contains different cover art and a radio edit of the song "Under the Black Raven's Wings" as a bonus track.
Most of the album's lyrics were written by Russian poet Alexander Marchenko.
A music video was recorded for the track "Under the Black Raven's Wings". "Birth of the Hero" would be included on the soundtrack of the 2009 video game Brütal Legend.
The album can be downloaded for free on Tvangeste's official website.
Firestorm is a 1998 action thriller film directed by Dean Semler, and starring Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe and Suzy Amis.
A firestorm is a fire that creates its own wind system.
Firestorm may also refer to:
is a Japanese anime series co-created by Gerry Anderson and John Needham. The series combines CGI animation for mecha and traditional cel animation for characters. Despite high-quality animation and an emphasis on futuristic vehicles traditional to Anderson productions (such as Thunderbirds), the series was not warmly received in Japan. Series availability in other countries has been limited.
"Firestorm" is a song recorded by Austrian singer Conchita Wurst for her debut album, Conchita (2015). It was released as an A-side single along with " Colours of Your Love" on 7 August 2015.
Firestorm is a 2013 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Alan Yuen, produced by and starring Andy Lau. The film was converted to 3D during post-production, making it the first 3D Hong Kong police action film. Firestorm was chosen to be the opening film at Screen Singapore held on 4 December 2013 where Lau and co-star Gordon Lam walked the red carpet for the film's premiere. The film also opened the 56th Asia Pacific Film Festival on 13 December 2013 in Macau. In addition, Firestorm also had its North American premier at the 57th San Francisco International Film Festival on 3 May 2014.
Usage examples of "firestorm".
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There were dead men and women in the streets, their bodies blackening in the growing firestorm.
The murderer knifed Nims during the firestorm and exited the shelter after the firestorm.
Nor could I have affected some Russki decision to kill Hamilton AFB and Alameda with low airbursts, which started vast firestorms but scooped up relatively little debris to add to their fallout plumes.
She felt as if she were caught in a firestorm and that the purest, smoothest part of her was being pitted.
Widespread use of dirigible bombers, firestorms and poison-gas bombardments.
Mission, Circuit Completed, Firestorm, Flashpoint, Timewarp, Crackup, Blackout!
And the ash was burned life, trees and mammals and divergent species of dinosaurs from America and China and Australia and Antarctica, burned to cinders by the global firestorms and then burned again in the pulse of superheat, now mingled together in the choked stratosphere.
We will be buried here, safe while the firestorms rage and the nuclear winter closes its grip.
I liked to think of huge buildings toppling, of firestorms, of bridges collapsing, survivors roaming the charred countryside.
Maybe that whole fuckin' playground would erupt in a beautiful red firestorm.
The one-man army was striding along their flank with the M-2O3 at full bellow, roaring out angry little chunks of high explosives in forty-millimetre packages, bringing daylight to the night and final darkness to those who tarried too long in the midst of the firestorm.
Stitched by lightning and seared by firestorms, the province of Elysia underwent its second Changeover in a matter of hours.
Israeli armored columns behind heavy tactical-artillery saturation push into Syria all the way to Abu Kenal in twelve hours: Damascus has firestorms.
Below banks of panicked clouds, smoke chimneyed from immolated cities and billowed from tracts of firestormed evergreen forests.