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Meanings of back-fire in English
A fire set intentionally for purposes of forest or land management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement.
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Examples for "burn-off"
Examples for "burn-off"
1
Both fires were said to be caused burn-offs that got out of control.
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I flew here from the U.S. due to controlled burn of fire.
2
A controlled burn is held on the giant oil slick.
3
There could also be pre-emptive controlled burn-offs of some areas to bring safety to other areas.
4
A controlled burn had injected the "ditch" with a dark, caustic, and apocalyptic haze.
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Officials plan a controlled burn to remove oil from the open water, the first since April 28.
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So, how expensive is it to do a prescribed burn?
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Compared to not doing the prescribed burn?
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It is getting harder to find enough days for safe hazard reduction burning.
2
He acknowledged that hazard reduction burning was not popular with a large cross-section of society but said it was necessary.
3
Climate change, hazard reduction burning, stay or go policies, local planning and arson are but some of the issues involved.
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Yesterday, the Country Fire Authority's chief officer Steve Warrington admitted the issue of hazard reduction burning was becoming an emotional one.
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Aside from not being in power, the Greens don't have anything in their policies to say they're against hazard reduction burning.
Usage of back-fire in English
1
A back-fire is a fire started for the purpose of stopping another.
2
If his trail-break was built in time, Dave meant to back-fire above it.
3
He had already run a little back-fire to protect the tents and the chuck-wagon.
4
Sounded as though there was a tremendous back-fire, or else the muffler blew up.
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Dave did not dare back-fire on account of the wind.
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They were trapped by the back-fire in a labyrinth from which there appeared no escape.
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Again they went along the line of their back-fire.
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I reckon it must 'a' been mighty bad up there when the back-fire caught you.
9
We kinder was afeared.... Say, kid, thet back-fire, now.
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That consolation was merely a back-fire in the rest of the conflagration that raged in him.
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The planets tell us that this is likely to back-fire on Jude in a big way!
12
Why not, in frontier parlance, start a back-fire that would make Tripoli too hot for Yusuf?
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The engine had suffered a regular spasm of coughing and one back-fire, so the child informed me.
14
Their back-fire ate its way into the wind much faster, and the real fire came on slower.
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Party workers said there would be uproar if the court treated the pair harshly, which would back-fire on Modi.
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Thet back-fire did the biz.
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