fire escape
fire escape noun: any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
Noun
fire escape (plural fire escapes)
- Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
- Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198
- The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
- Synonyms:
- emergency escape, emergency exit, emergency stairs, fire stairs
- Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down.
fire escape meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic
fire escape in Tamil
- தீக்காப்பு மீட்புவழி
fire escape in Tagalog
- emergency doors, ladders etc. as a class
- hagdanlabasan
fire escape in Arabic
- emergency doors, ladders etc. as a class
- مخرج طوارئ
Synonyms of fire escape
Forms of fire escape
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Questions about fire escape
- What does fire escape mean?
- Fire escape means any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
- What is fire escape in Tamil?
- Fire escape in Tamil is தீக்காப்பு மீட்புவழி. See Fire escape meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fire escape?
- Fire escape is a noun.
- What is the plural of fire escape?
- The plural of fire escape is fire escapes.
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