fire engine

See also: fire-engine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faɪə(ɹ).ɛn.dʒɪn/
• enPR: fīər ĕn jĭn IPA^(key): /faɪɚ.ɛn.dʒɪn/

Noun

fire engine (plural fire engines)

A fire engine in Iraq

1. (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.
2. (archaic) Any fire apparatus, such as the pumping apparatus on a fire boat.
   • 1844, William Pole, A Treatise on the Cornish Pumping Engine - Parts 1-3, page 110:

     A plan somewhat similar to this was adopted by Smeaton in the boiler of his portable fire engine.

   • 1866, Charles Frederick T. Young, Fires, Fire Engines, and Fire Brigades: With a History of Manual and Steam Fire Engines, page 93:

     In the same year a very compact arrangement for a stationary fire engine was described by Mr. Wm. Baddeley, in which he proposed it should be worked like a capstan by means of handspikes, and it could be bolted down to a ship's deck, or fastened wherever wanted.

   • 1868, John Bourne, A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture, page 4:

     This discovery gave a great impulse to mechanical ingenuity, and many schemes were contrived to make this new agent available as a motive power; but the first of these projects that appears to have been of any avail was the fire engine of Captain Tomas Savery, who produced a vacuum by condensing steam in close vessels, and then applied the vaccuum so obtained to the elevation of water.

Derived terms

• fire engine red

Translations

fire truck

• Arabic: حَرِيق مُحَرِّك m (ḥarīq muḥarrik), سيارة إطفاء الحريق
• Armenian: հրշեջ մեքենա (hršeǰ mekʻena)
• Catalan: camió de bombers (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消防車／消防车 (zh) (xiāofángchē), 消防车 (zh) (xiāofángchē)

• Danish: brandbil (da) c
• Dutch: brandweerauto (nl) m, brandweerwagen (nl) m
• Esperanto: fajropumpilo
• Finnish: paloauto (fi)
• French: camion d’incendie m, pompe à incendie (fr) f, voiture de pompiers f, camion de pompiers m
• Georgian: სახანძრო მანქანა (saxanʒro mankana)
• German: Feuerwehrwagen m, Feuerwehrspritze f
• Gujarati: લાયબંબો (lāyabambo)
• Hebrew: כַּבָּאִית (he) f (kabait), רֶכֶב כִּבּוּי (he) m (rekhev kibui)
• Hungarian: tűzoltóautó (hu)
• Icelandic: brunabíll m, slökkvibíll m, slökkviliðsbíll m
• Ido: incendiopumpilo (io)
• Indonesian: mobil pemadam kebakaran
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Interlingua: pumpa de incendios
• Irish: inneall dóiteáin m
• Italian: mezzo antincendio m
• Japanese: 消防車 (しょうぼうしゃ, shōbōsha)
• Korean: 소방차 (ko) (sobangcha) (消防車 (ko)), 구급차 (ko) (gugeupcha)
• Lao: ລົດອັກຄີໄຟ (lot ʼak khī fai)
• Luxembourgish: Pompjeesgefier n
• Malay: kereta bomba
• Maori: waka tinei ahi
• Norwegian: brannbil m
• Polish: wóz strażacki m, samochód pożarniczy m
• Portuguese: carro de bombeiro m, carro de bombeiros m
• Russian: пожа́рная маши́на (ru) f (požárnaja mašína), пожа́рный автомоби́ль (ru) m (požárnyj avtomobílʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: einnsean-smàlaidh m
• Spanish: coche de bomberos m
• Swedish: brandbil (sv) c
• Thai: รถดับเพลิง (rót-dàp-pləəng)
• Vietnamese: xe cứu hỏa

References

• “fire engine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “fire engine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.