fire engine

fire engine

English

A fire engine in Iraq

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /faɪə(ɹ).ɛn.dʒɪn/
• (US) enPR: fīər ĕn jĭn IPA^(key): /faɪɚ.ɛn.dʒɪn/

Noun

fire engine (plural fire engines)

1. (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.
2. (archaic) Any fire apparatus, such as the pumping apparatus on a fire boat.
   • 1844, William Pole, A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine - Parts 1-3, page 110:

     A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.

   • 1866, Charles Frederick T. Young, Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades: With a History of Manual and Steam Fire Engines, page 93:

     In the same year a very compact arrangement for a stationary fire engine was described by Mr. Wm. Baddeley, in which he proposed it should be worked like a capstan by means of handspikes, and it could be bolted down to a ship's deck, or fastened wherever wanted.

   • 1868, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture, page 4:

     This discovery gave a great impulse to mechanical ingenuity, and many schemes were contrived to make this new agent available as a motive power; but the first of these projects that appears to have been of any avail was the fire engine of Captain Tomas Savery, who produced a vacuum by condensing steam in close vessels, and then applied the vacuum so obtained to the elevation of water.

Derived terms

• fire engine red

Translations

fire truck

Arabic: حَرِيق مُحَرِّك‎ m (ḥarīq muḥarrik), سيارة إطفاء الحريق‎ Armenian: հրշեջ մեքենա (hršeǰ mekʿena) Catalan: camió de bombers (ca) m, cotxe de bombers (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 消防車／消防车 (zh) (xiāofángchē), 救火車／救火车 (zh) (jiùhuǒchē) Danish: brandbil (da) c Dutch: brandweerauto (nl) m, brandweerwagen (nl) m Esperanto: fajropumpilo Finnish: paloauto (fi) French: camion d'incendie m, pompe à incendie (fr) f, voiture de pompiers f, camion de pompiers m Georgian: სახანძრო მანქანა (saxanʒro mankana) German: Feuerwehrwagen m, Feuerwehrspritze f Greek: πυροσβεστικό όχημα n (pyrosvestikó óchima) Gujarati: લાયબંબો (lāyabambo) Hebrew: כַּבָּאִית‎ (he) f (kabait), רֶכֶב כִּבּוּי‎ (he) m (rekhev kibui) Hungarian: tűzoltóautó (hu) Icelandic: brunabíll m, slökkvibíll m, slökkviliðsbíll m Ido: incendiopumpilo (io) Indonesian: mobil pemadam kebakaran Interlingua: pumpa de incendios Irish: inneall dóiteáin m Italian: mezzo antincendio m Japanese: 消防車 (しょうぼうしゃ, shōbōsha) Korean: 소방차(消防車) (ko) (sobangcha) Lao: ລົດອັກຄີໄຟ (lot ʼak khī fai) Latin: sipho m Luxembourgish: Pompjeesgefier n Malay: kereta bomba Maori: waka tinei ahi Mongolian: галын машин (galyn mašin) ᠭᠠᠯ ᠦᠨ ᠮᠠᠰᠢᠨ (ɣal-ün masin) гал унтраах тэрэг (gal untraax tereg) ᠭᠠᠯ ᠤᠨᠲᠠᠷᠠᠭᠠᠬᠤ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ (ɣal-untaraɣaqu terge) (Inner Mongolia) Norwegian: brannbil m Polish: wóz strażacki m, samochód pożarniczy m Portuguese: carro de bombeiro m, carro de bombeiros m Russian: пожа́рная маши́на (ru) f (požárnaja mašína), пожа́рный автомоби́ль (ru) m (požárnyj avtomobílʹ) Samoan: please add this translation if you can Scottish Gaelic: einnsean-smàlaidh m Spanish: coche de bomberos m Swedish: brandbil (sv) c Tetum: karreta-bombeiru Thai: รถดับเพลิง (rót-dàp-pləəng) Tongan: mīsini tāmate-afi Ukrainian: пожежна машина f (požežna mašyna) Vietnamese: xe cứu hỏa, xe chữa cháy

Further reading

• fire engine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• fire engine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• fire engine at OneLook Dictionary Search