| Firework 1. (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war. 2. (n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition. Thesaurus Entries Roman candle, antiaircraft fire, bomb, cap, cherry bomb, cracker, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, dry fire, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firecracker, firepower, firework, firing, flack, flak, flare, flowerpot, girandole, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, interdiction fire, ladyfinger, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, percussion fire, pinwheel, pistol fire, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, rocket, serpent, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, skyrocket, snake, sparkler, squib, time fire, torpedo, vertical fire, zone fire |