"brushfire" meaning in All languages combined

See brushfire on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: brushfires [plural]
Etymology: brush + fire Etymology templates: {{compound|en|brush|fire}} brush + fire Head templates: {{en-noun}} brushfire (plural brushfires)
  1. A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which happens in forests. Categories (topical): Fire
    Sense id: en-brushfire-en-noun-7bJKc-1x Disambiguation of Fire: 78 22 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 81 19
  2. (politics, attributive) A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers. Tags: attributive Categories (topical): Politics
    Sense id: en-brushfire-en-noun-IL6hPN4C Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: brush fire, brush-fire

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for brushfire meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brush",
        "3": "fire"
      },
      "expansion": "brush + fire",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "brush + fire",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brushfires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brushfire (plural brushfires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "73 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fire",
          "orig": "en:Fire",
          "parents": [
            "Combustion",
            "Light sources",
            "Chemical processes",
            "Light",
            "Nature",
            "Energy",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which happens in forests."
      ],
      "id": "en-brushfire-en-noun-7bJKc-1x",
      "links": [
        [
          "scrubland",
          "scrubland"
        ],
        [
          "prairie",
          "prairie"
        ],
        [
          "forest fire",
          "forest fire"
        ],
        [
          "forest",
          "forest"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Foreign Trade Policy, Foreign Trade Policy: Hearings, Eighty-fifth Congress, page 651",
          "text": "It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Financial statements of field commanders, page 251",
          "text": "I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Philip Van Slyck, Peace: the Control of National Power, page 14",
          "text": "If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers."
      ],
      "id": "en-brushfire-en-noun-IL6hPN4C",
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "war",
          "war"
        ],
        [
          "superpower",
          "superpower"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics, attributive) A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "brush fire"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "brush-fire"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brushfire"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Fire"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "brush",
        "3": "fire"
      },
      "expansion": "brush + fire",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "brush + fire",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "brushfires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "brushfire (plural brushfires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which happens in forests."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scrubland",
          "scrubland"
        ],
        [
          "prairie",
          "prairie"
        ],
        [
          "forest fire",
          "forest fire"
        ],
        [
          "forest",
          "forest"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1958, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Foreign Trade Policy, Foreign Trade Policy: Hearings, Eighty-fifth Congress, page 651",
          "text": "It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Financial statements of field commanders, page 251",
          "text": "I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Philip Van Slyck, Peace: the Control of National Power, page 14",
          "text": "If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "war",
          "war"
        ],
        [
          "superpower",
          "superpower"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics, attributive) A war that does not directly involve the world's superpowers."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "brush fire"
    },
    {
      "word": "brush-fire"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brushfire"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.