different between firebreak vs fireline
firebreak
English
Alternative forms
- fire break
Etymology
fire +? break
Noun
firebreak (plural firebreaks)
- An area cleared of all flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading across it.
- The firefighters used a bulldozer to clear a firebreak in the forest to try to contain the forest fire.
- (figuratively) Any separating barrier.
- 1984, Dietrich Schroeer, Science, Technology and the Nuclear Arms Race (page 293)
- That policy could consist of a statement that the declaring nation would not be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would strengthen the firebreak between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons.
- 2012, Daniel Levine, Recovering International Relations: The Promise of Sustainable Critique (page 112)
- First, it serves to demonstrate that the practice of sustainable critique […] need not be impossibly philosophically rarefied […] Second, it serves as a firebreak against the unrelieved negativity that, it is sometimes charged, follows from Adorno's practices of reflexivity.
- 1984, Dietrich Schroeer, Science, Technology and the Nuclear Arms Race (page 293)
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- firebreak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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fireline
English
Etymology
fire +? line
Noun
fireline (plural firelines)
- A firebreak.
- A row of firefighters seeking to stop spread of a forest fire.
- The ranger said that working a fire is called being "on the fireline."
- The line where firefighters intend to stop a spreading fire.
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