firebreak, fireguard
(noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fireguard (plural fireguards)
A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
• fire screen
• firescreen
Source: Wiktionary
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
