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fireball

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) [syn: bolide ] a highly energetic and indefatigable person [syn: powerhouse , human dynamo , ball of fire ] a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) the luminous center ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fireball is an unfinished science fiction manga by Katsuhiro Otomo , created for Action Deluxe magazine and published in 1979. It is notable for establishing ground Otomo would later explore successfully in Domu and his best-known work Akira .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But other fireballs and meteorites were to come to the attention of geologists and chemists. ▪ One was reported to have fallen in Fortune Bay, where another bright fireball had fallen the previous month. ▪ Some of the gases from ...

Usage examples of fireball.

Of course when the wall yields and the breach has to be defended the warehouses will be held, and as the windows will command the breach they will be great aids to us then, and it would be a great disadvantage to us if the Spaniards now were to throw shells and fireballs into these houses, and so to destroy them before they make their attack.

Then the Bushmaster went off like a bomb, its fuel tank detonating as an orange-red fireball, twisted metal debris spewing outward.

The crippled Sealon attack craft, left behind in a low orbit when its two companions had raised their altitudes and shifted to polar orbits, had long since succumbed to drag, spiraling ever lower until it deorbited and screamed down through the atmosphere, a brilliant fireball, its remains impacting on a large, uninhabited island near the equator.

And now Cloud, as he studied through his almost opaque defenses that indescribably ravening fireball, that esuriently rapacious monstrosity which might very well have come from the deepest pit of the hottest hell of mythology, felt strongly inclined to agree with Carlowitz.

Cloud, as he studied through his almost opaque defenses that indescribably ravening fireball, that esuriently rapacious monstrosity which might very well have come from the deepest pit of the hottest hell of mythology, felt strongly inclined to agree with Carlowitz.

The flashover effect as she opened the door with one foot ignited a huge fireball, blowing her and her baby out into the snow where they mercifully died.

But dozens slid through the latticelike intricacies of her point defense lasers and immolated themselves against her drive field in fireballs which gouged at her gargantuan hull.

The Father Abbot wanted him to leap from the cliff, plummet to one particularly large tangle of powrie ships, enact the levitational malachite and the fire-shield serpentine, and then loose a fireball across the vessels.

They plopped onto the sand that roofed the combustion chamber and exploded simultaneously in a multilobed fireball.

The metal food cans inside were nonflammable, but they were packed in extruded cellulose that ignited in a red fireball.

He was aware of the fireballs from the MiGo just as he pulled the trigger and eased the pipper up.

The next fireball seemed smaller, slower, showing that Sammel was tired.

The image grew in him: a fireball twenty meters across, shimmering white, red, gold, royal blue, flames dancing like Medusa locks, cometary tail burning for a hundred meters behind, a shiningness, a glory, a piece of hell.

Fireball grown taller, solider and grizzled, the jaw firmed and controlled, the voice more powerful and sure.

Amid the darkening sky and belligerent uproar of the storm he watched the express train from StLincoln leave the tracks in a cloying oily fireball, saw the carriages jackknife and crumple, caught sight of the broken charred bodies sprawled along the side of the tracks.