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Definition of Fireproof
1. Verb. Make resistant to fire.
2. Adjective. Impervious to damage by fire.
Definition of Fireproof
1. a. Proof against fire; incombustible.
Definition of Fireproof
1. Adjective. Resistant to damage from fire. ¹
2. Verb. To make resistant to damage from fire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fireproof
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireproof
Literary usage of Fireproof
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"fireproof construction —Continued. Fire, load and water test on floor systems.
... 11 Scl Am S 76:360-2 Je 7 '13 fireproof construction in mines. ..."
2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"fireproof, Semi-fireproof, Fire Protection.—Needless to say every effort should
be made to have our new schools fireproof. Semi-fireproof usually means ..."
3. Property Insurance: Comprising Fire and Marine Insurance, Corporate Surety by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1915)
"The danger of fire to contents within a fireproof building is much greater ...
On the other hand, a fireproof building radiates very little of its exposure ..."
4. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"In all non-fireproof as well as fireproof tenement houses hereafter erected five
stories or more in height, exclusive of the cellar, the first floor above ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"When the height of a fireproof building exceeds twelve stories, or is more than
150 feet, the floor-surfaces shall be of stone, cement, rock, asphalt, ..."
6. Property Insurance, Comprising Fire and Marine Insurance, Corporate Surety by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1911)
"It should also be noted that the public is altogether too apt to minimize the
importance of exposures to fireproof buildings. ..."
7. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1901)
"In all non-fireproof tenement houses hereafter erected less than five stories in
height, whore the first floor above the cellar, or, If there be no cellar, ..."
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