book vs fire

book

verb
  • To leave. 

  • To record bets as bookmaker. 

  • To receive the highest grade in a class. 

  • To reserve (something) for future use. 

  • To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 

  • To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 

  • simple past tense of bake 

  • To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 

  • To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. 

  • To travel very fast. 

noun
  • A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 

  • A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement). 

  • A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. 

  • A major division of a long work. 

  • A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 

  • Records of the accounts of a business. 

  • A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant. 

  • Six tricks taken by one side. 

  • Four of a kind. 

  • The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps. 

  • The script of a musical or opera. 

  • A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry. 

  • The twenty-sixth Lenormand card. 

  • A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc. 

  • Any source of instruction. 

  • The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame. 

  • A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book. 

  • A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 

fire

verb
  • To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client. 

  • To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon. 

  • To initiate an event (by means of an event handler). 

  • To forcibly direct (something). 

  • To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device). 

  • To drive away by setting a fire. 

  • To animate; to give life or spirit to. 

  • To shoot; to attempt to score a goal. 

  • To set (something, often a building) on fire. 

  • To set off an explosive in a mine. 

  • To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. 

  • To feed or serve the fire of. 

  • To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust. 

  • To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance). 

  • To inflame; to irritate, as the passions. 

  • To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. 

  • To cause an action potential in a cell. 

  • To cauterize. 

adj
  • Amazing; excellent. 

noun
  • A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire). 

  • The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon. 

  • Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star. 

  • The elements necessary to start a fire. 

  • Strength of passion, whether love or hate. 

  • Red coloration in a piece of opal. 

  • The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. 

  • A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering. 

  • Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm. 

  • An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire). 

  • A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such. 

  • A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking. 

  • An instance of firing one or more rocket engines. 

  • The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. 

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