Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word INFLAMMABLE
INFLAMMABLE
Definitions of INFLAMMABLE
- Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
- Any inflammable substance.
- (figuratively) Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.
- (nonstandard) Incapable of burning; not easily set on fire.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using INFLAMMABLE in a Sentence
- The respirator was to prevent the inhaling of injurious gases, and to supply the miner with good air; the lamps were constructed to burn in the most inflammable kind of fire-damp without igniting the gas.
- He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On Factitious Airs.
- Experiments and Observations relating to Acetous Acid, fixable Air, Dense Inflammable Air, Oils and Fuel, the Matter of Fire and Light, Metallic Reduction, Combustion, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Respiration, and other subjects of Chemical Philosophy, 1 vol, London.
- Some compilers in fact require that the letters of the joey word not be consecutive within the kangaroo word (for example: borough carries burgh, but the letters are not in the normal order) or may stipulate that the kangaroo and joey words be etymologically unrelated; so that in both cases words such as: action (act), healthiness (health), advertisement (ad), malignant (malign), and inflammable (flammable), would not qualify.
- The mineral has also been called idrialine, and branderz in German It has also been called inflammable cinnabar due to its combustibility and association with cinnabar ores in the source locality.
- Rubens was scuttled in shallow water in Manza Bay, out of sight of Hyacinth, which believed that shelling had set her afire, though this was a ruse by the crew, who had laid inflammable material on deck and retired to the shore.
- Inside the walls, the strong, almost entirely inflammable masonry homes and apartment buildings were laced together with internal passageways, making each block of the city its own barricaded fortress, with the numerous church buildings standing as keeps and strong-points, from which grapeshot and counter-battery fire could command the streets.
- In 1779 he offered the London Royal Society two memories on chemistry: 'Experiments and observations on the inflammable air breathed by various animals', where he denied that flammable air was fit for breathing, in accordance with Joseph Priestley, and 'Account of the airs extracted from different kinds of water; with thoughts on the salubrity of air at different places'.
- The word "inflammable" came through French from the Latin inflammāre = "to set fire to", where the Latin preposition "in-" means "in" as in "indoctrinate", rather than "not" as in "invisible" and "ineligible".
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