fire hose en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From fire + hose.
Meanings
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A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.
Although the subway structure is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided.
1954 June, “Yonge Street Subway, Toronto”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:
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(idiomatic) Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information).
She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.
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A feed of all updates to a website.
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.
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: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.
2013, Nigel Bradley, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)
2012, Rob Garner, Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 286: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.
2013, Murray Dick, Search: Theory and Practice in Journalism Online, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 85:
- (colloquial, idiomatic) A human penis.
- An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| fire hoses | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| firehose | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (36)
ca mànega d'incendis (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · de Feuerwehrschlauch (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ru брандспо́йт (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · uk поже́жний шланг (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ja 消防ホース (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · pl powódź (any fast, heavy stream) · nl brandspuit (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ga píobán dóiteáin (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ar خُرْطُوم حَرِيق (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · bg противопожа́рен марку́ч (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · pt mangueira de incêndio (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · hu tűzoltó tömlő (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · be пажа́рны рука́ў (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · cmn 消防水龍 /消防水龙 (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · de Löschschlauch (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ru пожа́рный шланг (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ru пожа́рный рука́в (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · be пажа́рны шланг (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · mk противпожарно црево (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · uk поже́жний рука́в (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · sv brandslang (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · pl wąż pożarowy (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · nl brandslang (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · cs požární hadice (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · sk požiarna hadica (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · es manguera de incendios (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · he צינור כיבוי (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · fi paloletku (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · ko 소방호스 (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · nb brannslange (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · tr yangın hortumu (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · da brandslange (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · rsk циварвань (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · es chorro (any fast, heavy stream) · fr tuyau d'incendie (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire) · it manichetta antincendio (hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire)