Combustible
[kəm'bʌstɪb(ə)l] or [kəm'bʌstəbl]
Definition
(noun.) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power.
(adj.) capable of igniting and burning .
Edited by Astor--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
(a.) Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
(n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.
Edited by Bryan
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Inflammable.
Checker: Mandy
Examples
- The pyromagnetic generator is based on the same phenomenon; its aim being of course to generate electrical energy directly from the heat of the combustible. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This idea of interspacing filled in with non-combustible material has been generally followed ever since. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Since that time I have put up numerous factory buildings all of steel and concrete, without any combustible whatever about them--to avoid this 'moral risk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1834 William Marr of England patented a lining for a double metallic chest, filled with non-combustible materials such as mica, or talc clay, lime, and graphite. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Is it not thus that fire is amassed, and makes the greatest part of the substance of combustible bodies? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Cavallo, who suggested the setting fire to combustibles, or the explosion of detonating substances, as the means of signalling intelligence. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Typist: Mason