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fire drill en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.
    • There was a fire drill this morning. We had to leave the building calmly and go to the birch tree, our meeting point.
  2. (US, idiomatic) Any pointless, unproductive, useless, or chaotic activity.
    • Since they've changed the standards again, our previous efforts now just amount to a fire drill.
  3. A fire-starting tool consisting of a wooden rod and some primitive means of rapidly rotating the rod on a flat surface like a drill until tinder can be ignited.
    • There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill; 1999, Paul Douglas Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, →ISBN, page 4:
    • Near-synonym: firestarter (synonymous in some versions)

Forms

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fire drills Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

Mexican standoff

Hypernyms

activity · practice · drill · exercise

Synonyms

fire practice · Polish fire drill · firestick · pump drill · firestarter · bow drill · hand drill · Chinese fire drill

Translations (41)

cmn 鑽木取火器 /钻木取火器 (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · cmn 無謂的折騰 /无谓的折腾 (pointless activity) · ca simulacre d'incendi (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · fi puuhastelu (pointless activity) · sv brandövning (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · de Bogendrille (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · de Geigenbohrer (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · ja 避難訓練 (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · nl brandoefening (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · fi tulipora (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · de Feuerbohrer (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · ja 消防訓練 (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · es simulacro de incendio (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · aht xasgii (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · pl łuk ogniowy (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · he תרגול כיבוי אש (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · es simulacro (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · fi paloharjoitus (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · pl ćwiczenie pożarowe (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · ga cleachtadh dóiteáin (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · cmn 消防演習 /消防演习 (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · ga druil dhóiteáin (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · de Probealarm (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · nv woolkʼą́ą́h (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · cmn 瞎忙 (pointless activity) · de Luftnummer (pointless activity) · it esercitazione antincendio (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · de Brandschutzübung (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · de Feuerübung (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · grc ἀρίς (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · egy DA-A-Z9:xt (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · de Fiedelbohrer (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · he תרגיל אש (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · th การซ้อมหนีไฟ (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · sv eldborr (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · de verlorene Liebesmüh (pointless activity) · wyi djelwuck (rod which is rotated on a flat surface) · sv tidsslöseri (pointless activity) · fr exercice incendie (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire) · pl bezsensowna działalność (pointless activity) · fr exercice d'incendie (practice to prepare for evacuation in the event of a fire)

wikidata: Q5100783 · wikidata: Q105062783 · wikidata: Q3243704