"fire hose" meaning in English

See fire hose in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-au-fire hose.ogg Forms: fire hoses [plural]
Etymology: From fire + hose. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fire|hose}} fire + hose Head templates: {{en-noun}} fire hose (plural fire hoses)
  1. A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose. Synonyms: firehose Related terms: firehose [verb], garden hose Translations (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire): خرطوم مطافئ (Arabic), mànega d'incendis [feminine] (Catalan), 消防水龍 (Chinese Mandarin), 消防水龙 (xiāofáng shuǐlóng) (Chinese Mandarin), brandspuit [feminine] (Dutch), brandslang [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), paloletku (Finnish), tuyau d’incendie [masculine] (French), Feuerwehrschlauch [masculine] (German), צינור כיבוי (Hebrew), tűzoltó tömlő (Hungarian), píobán dóiteáin [masculine] (Irish), manichetta antincendio [feminine] (Italian), 消防ホース (shōbō hōsu) (Japanese), wąż pożarowy [masculine] (Polish), mangueira de incêndio [feminine] (Portuguese), пожа́рный шланг (požárnyj šlang) [masculine] (Russian), брандспо́йт (brandspójt) [masculine] (Russian), manguera de incendios [feminine] (Spanish), brandslang [common-gender] (Swedish), пожежний шланг (požežnyj šlanh) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-fire_hose-en-noun-kpWEkcaD Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 11 11 31 8 38 Disambiguation of 'hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire': 94 0 2 2 3
  2. (idiomatic) Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information). Tags: idiomatic Translations (any fast, heavy stream): chorro [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fire_hose-en-noun-b0X1VoAd Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 11 11 31 8 38 Disambiguation of 'any fast, heavy stream': 1 84 7 0 8
  3. (computing) A feed of all updates to a website. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-fire_hose-en-noun-30Wy8TCG Categories (other): Terms with Hungarian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 11 11 31 8 38 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  4. (idiomatic, colloquial) A human penis. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic
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  5. An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface. Categories (topical): Body parts, Firefighting, Genitalia
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "fire"
        ],
        [
          "diameter",
          "diameter"
        ],
        [
          "garden hose",
          "garden hose"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fast",
          "fast"
        ],
        [
          "heavy",
          "heavy"
        ],
        [
          "stream",
          "stream"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Rob Garner, Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 286:",
          "text": "Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Marty Weintraub, Lauren Litwinka, The Complete Social Media Community Manager's Guide: Essential Tools and Tactics for Business Success, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 172:",
          "text": "This is cool because, even though the YouTube firehose is on full blast, you only need an instance of the feed and from that firehose, you can filter out what you need for alerts for as many keywords as you like.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Murray Dick, Search: Theory and Practice in Journalism Online, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:",
          "text": "However, it is worth bearing in mind that even those services with access to the Twitter 'firehose' (direct API) do not have anything even approaching a complete Twitter archive.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Nigel Bradley, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Here we will briefly consider web crawlers, webscraping software, data feeds (RSS and other feeds, firehoses etc), human cutting and pasting, panels, MROCs, Netnography, and text analytics.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A feed of all updates to a website."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "feed",
          "feed"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A feed of all updates to a website."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A human penis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penis",
          "penis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, colloquial) A human penis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-fire hose.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/de/En-au-fire_hose.ogg/En-au-fire_hose.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/En-au-fire_hose.ogg"
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "firehose"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "خرطوم مطافئ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mànega d'incendis"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "消防水龍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiāofáng shuǐlóng",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "消防水龙"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brandspuit"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brandslang"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "paloletku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tuyau d’incendie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Feuerwehrschlauch"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "צינור כיבוי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "tűzoltó tömlő"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "píobán dóiteáin"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "manichetta antincendio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōbō hōsu",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "消防ホース"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wąż pożarowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mangueira de incêndio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "požárnyj šlang",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пожа́рный шланг"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "brandspójt",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "брандспо́йт"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "manguera de incendios"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "brandslang"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "požežnyj šlanh",
      "sense": "hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire",
      "word": "пожежний шланг"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "any fast, heavy stream",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chorro"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "fire hose"
  ],
  "word": "fire hose"
}

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