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PRONUNCIATION OF CENTRE-FIRE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CENTRE-FIRE

noun
adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Centre-Fire is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CENTRE-FIRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

centre-fire

Centerfire ammunition

A centerfire cartridge is a cartridge with a primer located in the center of the cartridge case head. Unlike rimfire cartridges, the primer is a separate and replaceable component. Centerfire cartridges have supplanted the rimfire variety in all but the smallest cartridge sizes. With the exception of some.22 and.17 caliber pistol and rifle cartridges, small-bore shotgun cartridges, and a handful of antique, mostly obsolete cartridges, almost all pistol, rifle, and shotgun ammunition used today is centerfire.

Definition of centre-fire in the English dictionary

The definition of centre-fire in the dictionary is having the primer in the centre of the base. Other definition of centre-fire is adapted for such cartridges.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CENTRE-FIRE

centre court
centre forward
centre ground
centre half
centre of curvature
centre of gravity
centre of mass
centre of pressure
centre pass
centre punch
centre section
centre spread
centre stage
centre three-quarter
centreboard
centred
centred dot
centrefold
centreline
centrepiece

WORDS THAT END LIKE CENTRE-FIRE

anti-aircraft fire
backfire
bonfire
campfire
catch fire
ceasefire
crossfire
fire
gunfire
hellfire
like a house on fire
no smoke without fire
on fire
rapid-fire
rim-fire
set the world on fire
spitfire
sure-fire
under fire
wildfire

Synonyms and antonyms of centre-fire in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «centre-fire» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CENTRE-FIRE

Find out the translation of centre-fire to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of centre-fire from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «centre-fire» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中心火
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

centro del fuego
570 millions of speakers

English

centre-fire
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सेंटर फायर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وسط إطلاق النار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

центр огня
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

centro - fogo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেন্দ্র-আগুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

centre - feu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pusat api
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zentralfeuer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中央火災
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중앙 화재
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tengah-api
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trung tâm bắn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மைய-தீ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केंद्र आग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

merkez yangın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Centro - fire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Centrum -fire
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

центр вогню
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

centru - foc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κέντρο - φωτιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sentrum- vuur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

center - brand
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sentrum - brann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of centre-fire

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CENTRE-FIRE»

The term «centre-fire» is normally little used and occupies the 124.193 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CENTRE-FIRE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «centre-fire» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «centre-fire» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about centre-fire

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CENTRE-FIRE»

Discover the use of centre-fire in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to centre-fire and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Forensic Ballistics in Court: Interpretation and ...
In centre fire ammunition, only Cartridge case Firing pin Priming compound Flash hole Primer cup _1 Standing breech face Figure 1.0.9 The centre fire system. the primer cup needed to be soft enough to be crushed by the firing pin.
Brian J. Heard, 2013
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Firearms, the Law, and Forensic Ballistics, Second Edition
The French adopted a similar system for their Chassepot service rifle, before it was subsequently converted to fire the 11 mm Gras centre-fire cartridge. The needle-fire cartridge utilised a nitrated paper cartridge which could be pierced through ...
Tom Warlow, 2004
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4th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and ...
INTRODUCTION In 1989, a Study Group coordinated by the Warren Centre of Advanced Engineering at the University of Sydney was established under the Centre's Fire Safety and Engineering Project1. The project and its associated ...
Edited, 2002
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Fire Hazard and Fire Risk Assessment
Acknowledgments This paper is based largely on the Warren Centre "Fire Safety and Engineering" Project Report [7]. The Fire Safety and Engineering Project involved some 70 project fellows who are senior professionals from various ...
M. M. Hirschler, 1992
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The South African Dictionary of Sport
They can be either centre fire - where the primer is in the centre of the rear rim of the cartridge, or rim fire - where the priming compound is located in the rim at the base of the cartridge centre fire see cartridge and events charge the detonating ...
Joel Alswang, 2003
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Students' Britannica India
World championship competitions are with the small-bore rifle, free rifle, centre- fire pistol, free-pistol, rapid-fire pistol (.22 calibre), air rifle, air pistol, and shotgun. Running-deer and running-boar matches are fired with .22 rimfire or .222 ...
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Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Plato, weight and ...
In the later passage, there is no indication that Plato intends to compare different elements, and a fortiori no implication that measured at the centre fire would be lighter than any other element. Taylor's argument is no less flawed. In the earlier  ...
Denis O'Brien, 1981
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The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety
... Authority investigation into the Channel Tunnel fire in 1996 and the Railtrack investigation into the Paddington Railway Fire in 1999. He assisted Bedfordshire Police with the investigation into the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre Fire (2002).
Richard Carvel, Alan Beard, 2005
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A Brief History of Rockville Centre: The Heritage and ...
After organizing the Rockville Centre Fire Department, a budget of $2,000 was put in place by the village. It soon became apparent that the newly formed department was hampered by Rockville Centre's first two firehouses, belonging to ...
Marilyn Nunes Devlin, 2011
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Dictionary of Natural Resource Management
Centre fire ignition (centre firing) is the setting of fires in the centre of an area or concentrated to create a central convection column, with additional fires set progressively and less concentrated near the outer control lines. As indrafts develop ...
Katherine Dunster, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CENTRE-FIRE»

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Highest legal gun ownership in border counties
Senior gardaí have voiced repeated concern that there is no justification for the continued license of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles amid fears ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»

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