different between combustible vs firepot

English

Etymology

From Middle French combustible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?m?b?st?b?l/

Adjective

combustible (comparative more combustible, superlative most combustible)

1. Capable of burning

   • Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter.

2. (figuratively) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.

   • Arnold, however, was a combustible character.

Antonyms

• incombustible

Related terms

• combust
• combustibility
• combustion

Translations

Noun

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. A material that is capable of burning.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.bus?ti.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.bus?ti.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.bus?ti.ble/

Adjective

combustible (masculine and feminine plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. combustible, fuel

Related terms

• combustió

Further reading

• “combustible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “combustible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “combustible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “combustible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Adjective

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kombus?tible/, [kõm.bus?t?i.??le]

Adjective

combustible (plural combustibles)

1. combustible

Noun

combustible m (plural combustibles)

1. fuel

Derived terms

• agrocombustible
• combustible fósil

Related terms

• comburente
• combustión

Further reading

• “combustible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• fire-pot
• fire pot

Etymology

fire +? pot

Noun

firepot (plural firepots)

1. A pot used to hold or carry fire.
2. An early incendiary device, an earthenware pot filled with combustible materials and ignited through a hole in the bottom.