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wildfire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wildfire \Wild"fire\, n.
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A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench.
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(Med.)
An old name for erysipelas.
A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.
A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English wilde fyr "destructive fire" (perhaps caused by lightning); also "erysipelas, spreading skin disease;" see from wild (adj.) + fire (n.). From c.1300 as "Greek fire," also fire rained down from the sky as divine retribution. Figurative sense from late 14c. By 1795 as "sheet lightning."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area. 2 (context historical English) Greek fire, Byzantine fire. 3 A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas. 4 (context figuratively English) Something that acts quickly and uncontrollably.
WordNet
n. a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
Wikipedia
Fossil records and human history contain accounts of wildfires, as wildfires can occur in periodic intervals. Bushfires in Australia are a common occurrence; because of the generally hot and dry climate, they pose a great risk to life and infrastructure during all times of the year, though mostly throughout the hotter months of summer and spring. Typically, in the United States, between 60,000 and 80,000 wildfires occur each year, burning 3 million to 10 million acres (12,000 to 40,000 square kilometres) of land depending on the year.
Wildfires can cause extensive damage, both to property and human life; they can also have various beneficial effects on wilderness areas. Some plant species depend on the effects of fire for growth and reproduction, although large wildfires may also have negative ecological effects.
Strategies of wildfire prevention, detection, and suppression have varied over the years, and international wildfire management experts encourage further development of technology and research. One of the more controversial techniques is controlled burning: permitting or even igniting smaller fires to minimize the amount of flammable material available for a potential wildfire. While some wildfires burn in remote forested regions, they can cause extensive destruction of homes and other property located in the wildland-urban interface: a zone of transition between developed areas and undeveloped wilderness.
The name wildfire was once a synonym for Greek fire but now refers to any large or destructive conflagration. Wildfires differ from other fires in that they take place outdoors in areas of bushland, grassland, peatland, scrubland, woodlands, and other wooded areas that act as a source of fuel, or combustible material. All wildfires can be characterized by their physical properties, fuel type, or weather's effect on the fire, regardless of the fire's cause or outcome. Wildfire behaviour and severity result from the combination of factors such as available fuels, physical setting, and weather.
While wildfires can be large, uncontrolled disasters that burn through or more, they can also be as small as or less. Although smaller events may be included in wildfire modeling, most do not earn press attention; this can be problematic because public fire policies, which relate to fires of all sizes, are influenced more by the way the media portrays catastrophic wildfires than by small fires.
Wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in a woodland area.
Wildfire or Wild Fire may also refer to:
The original Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin) was female, and one of the first female super heroes. Her name was changed to Firebrand out of respect for the male version created 40 years later.
For the Golden Age Quality Comics character, see: Wildfire (Golden Age).Wildfire is a fictional DC Comics superhero. Created by Cary Bates and Dave Cockrum, the character debuted in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #195 (June 1973). The story is set in a fictional universe's 30th and 31st centuries.
Wildfire is a US television series that aired on ABC Family from June 2005 to May 2008. The show was produced by Lionsgate Television, Piller², and The Segan Company (Michael Piller would later merge Piller² and The Segan Company to Piller/Segan to produce Greek). The show premiered on June 20, 2005; its fourth and final season ended on May 16, 2008 due to low ratings. Season one averaged just over a million weekly viewers and season two increased to 1.56 million, an increase of over 50%. Season three dropped back to the first year's numbers. The theme song is "Morning Light" sung by Truman.
Wildfire is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera about the adventures of Sara, a 13-year-old girl growing up in the American West as she discovers her true identity as a princess-in-hiding from another realm who is destined to fight the evil witch Lady Diabolyn. The show was first broadcast on CBS for 13 episodes from September 13th to December 6th, 1986.
Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin) is a fictional superheroine in the DC Comics universe. One of the first female superheroes, she was originally published by Quality Comics during what comics historians and fans called the Golden Age of comic books.
Wildfire is a steel roller coaster located at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. The $14 million ride was built by Swiss firm Bolliger & Mabillard and opened in 2001. Wildfire is themed as a flying machine developed by an 1880s Ozark inventor.
Standing tall and featuring a top speed of , Wildfire is the tallest and second fastest ride at Silver Dollar City. Along its of track, Wildfire features five inversions including an Immelmann loop, a vertical loop, a cobra roll and a corkscrew.
Wildfire Motors was a company based in Steubenville, Ohio, specializing in the sales of scooters, motorcycles, ATVs, cyclecars, and electric vehicles. The vehicles are manufactured in China and are distributed throughout the United States.
This distributor has ten cases under review with the Ohio Attorney General and 30 with the Better Business Bureau.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 3, 2013, that it is withdrawing approval of the import and sale of up to 74,000 gas-powered on- and off-road motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles from China. The agency believes that it received either incomplete or falsified certification information.
"Wildfire" is a classic song written by Michael Martin Murphey and Larry Cansler. It was originally recorded by Murphey, who had yet to add his middle name to his recorded work, and appears on his gold-plus 1975 album Blue Sky – Night Thunder.
Released in February 1975, as the album's lead single, "Wildfire" became Murphey's highest-charting Pop hit in the United States. The somber story song hit #2 in Cash Box and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1975. In addition, it reached the top position of the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
The single continued to sell, eventually receiving platinum certification from the RIAA, signifying sales of over two million US copies. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Wildfire is a 1945 American Cinecolor Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey. The film is also known as Wildfire: The Story of a Horse in the United Kingdom.
Wildfire is a 1915 silent drama film produced by the Shuberts and distributed by World Pictures. It is based on the 1908 Broadway play Wildfire by George V. Hobart and George Broadhurst. The play had starred the famous Lillian Russell, who, in a rare screen appearance, reprised her role here. It was remade in 1925 with Aileen Pringle. Surviving prints are missing the third reel and the ending.
According to the American Film Institute catalog this film was shot at the Peerless Studios.
Wildfire ( 1925) is a silent film produced by Distinctive Productions, a company founded by George Arliss, and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America.
The film is based on a successful 1908 play Wildfire that had starred Lillian Russell on Broadway and a young actor just starting out named Irving Cummings, later a silent director. This film stars Aileen Pringle. The story had been filmed before in 1915 with Lillian Russell herself and Lionel Barrymore.
"Wildfire" is a song by British musician SBTRKT. It features Little Dragon. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2011.
Wildfire is a wooden roller coaster at Kolmården Wildlife Park located in Bråviken, Sweden. Manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction, the roller coaster is both the fastest wooden coaster in Europe, and second tallest wooden coaster in the world. Throughout the 2 minute ride, riders will traverse through 3 inversions, reach speeds of up to and experience 12 air-time hills.
"Wildfire" is the fifth episode of the post-apocalyptic horror television series, The Walking Dead. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on November 28, 2010. The episode was written by Glen Mazzara and directed by Ernest Dickerson.
In the episode, the survivors deal with the aftermath of the walker attack, and decide to move to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facilities, hoping to find a cure for an infected Jim ( Andrew Rothenberg). Meanwhile, Shane Walsh ( Jon Bernthal), finding his leadership position challenged by Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln), succumbs to his inner demons.
Wildfire is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Rachel Platten. It was released on January 1, 2016, through Sony Music Entertainment. The album debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200, with 45,000 album-equivalent units (29,000 from pure album sales) in its first week. On March 9, 2016, the album was certified gold by Recording Industry Association of America for combined sales and streaming equivalent units of 500,000 units.
The album includes " Fight Song", released in February 2015, which peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in Scotland and the UK. The album's second single, " Stand by You", was released on September 11, 2015.
Wildfire is a 1988 American romance-drama film directed by Zalman King and starring Steven Bauer and Linda Fiorentino.
"Wildfire" is a song by the German band Fahrenhaidt, featuring vocals from Danish singer-songwriter Emmelie de Forest. The song was released on February 6, 2015. It is the fourth track on Fahrenhaidt's album The Book of Nature.
Usage examples of "wildfire".
And in South Carolina, waiting to spread like a wildfire, was the Libyan, Khamsin, The Hot Wind, and his thousands of troops.
The next day was spent in a long round of farewell visits, and then Vincent mounted Wildfire, and, with Dan trotting behind, rode off from the Orangery amidst a chorus of blessings and good wishes from all the slaves who could on any pretext get away from their duties, and who had assembled in front of the house to see him start.
The news, that the Sirkar had feared to attack Buner, spread like wildfire along the frontier, and revived the spirits of the tribes.
I stood was to be the place where Lin Slone taught Lucy Bostil to ride the great stallion Wildfire.
Four years ago his wife had died of cancer at the age of twenty-seven, it had started in her womb and then just raced up through her like wildfire, and Stu had observed the way they got around her questions, either by changing the subject or giving her information in large, technical lumps.
It drove through her veins, branching and rebranching as wildfire races along the limbs of a tree to its outermost extremities.
The lurid nature of a father contracting the abduction of his own child fed a wildfire of sensationalist journalism, but even before the worst of it, Lucy Chenier concluded that life with yours truly was not worth the risk, so she took her son and went home.
Once started, it was generally felt that Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever would spread like wildfire to both friendly and hostile forces.
When it had, it had spread like wildfire in dried witchgrass, as grim tidings so often do in quiet hamlets and close-knit communities.
The war now ran like wildfire through the settlements of Maine and New Hampshire.
Because of the wealth of ruins and artifacts on the mesa all wildfires were put out in their infancy by a crew of wildland firefighters flown in by helicopter.
It was clear that news of the unlikely betrothal had circulated around Wood bridge with the speed of wildfire, for dozens of their acquaintance hurried forward to offer congratulations, and those who had been at the ball were still talking about it.
Tuigan was spreading like wildfire, from bowyer to armorer, blacksmith to fletcher, but John and Kiri let their conversation drift on to other topics.
Millions of plants and animals contributed to this windfall of fertilizer, more little creatures annihilated in a random wildfire than in years of human bounty killing.
But the Wildfire team staunchly ignored both the evidence of their own experience-- that bacteria mutate rapidly and radically-- and the evidence of the Biosatellite tests, in which a series of earth forms were sent into space and later recovered.