fireball

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion, or (fiction, mythology) thrown as a weapon.

   “He placed his arms in a blocking position, but even so, the fireball threw all three of them, Kylie, Percival, and Kelly, onto the wall.”

2. isim A feisty, strong-willed person.

   “But ſure in a family it bodeth moſt bad, vvhen tvvo firebals (huſbands and vvives anger) come both together.”

3. isim Synonym of fastball (“a high-speed pitch of a baseball”).
4. isim A bright glow caused by a spacecraft re-entering an atmosphere.
5. isim A meteor bright enough to cast shadows; a bolide.

   “Ninety-four years after the Tunguska fireball. […] A US Air Force spots an object as it enters the atmosphere, but loses track of it as it falls below 30 kilometres. Moments later a second satellite records a fireball exploding in the clouded sky.”

6. isim A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two.
7. isim A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.

   “[T]he ſlingers and archers together, vvith others alſo tumbling dovvne huge ſtones, vvith firebrands and fireballs, ſet them further off.”

8. isim A charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell with flames emitted from the top, or sometimes from the top, bottom, and on either side.
9. isim An emanation of St. Elmo's fire; also (later), of ball lightning.

   “[T]here vvas ſuch a Tempeſt & thunder vvith great firebals of lightning, that the vault of the church brake, and halfe the Chancell vvas carried avvay.”

10. isim A ball-shaped firelighter (“small block of a flammable substance, typically a combination of sawdust and wax, used to light fires”).
11. isim A ball of heat-resistant material placed in a fire to slow down the burning of the fuel.
12. isim A statement intended to cause dissension or as a provocation.
13. sıfat Excellent, terrific.

    “"Give us a hand," said Mack. "How's she look?" / "Fireball," said Eddie.”

14. fiil To attack (someone or something) with balls of fire.
15. fiil To explode in a ball of fire or flame.

    “The car swerved off a road, hit a wall, and fireballed as the petrol tank exploded.”

16. fiil To emerge suddenly; to explode.

    “But the swoon was only brief. [Klay] Thompson scorched his way to 27 first-half points, the Warriors fireballed back into a 17-point lead and a statement half was sealed from the deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep left corner, early in the clock and without a dribble – vintage Klay, vintage Warriors.”

17. fiil To pitch a baseball very fast.