Other forms: extinguishers
An extinguisher is the cylinder that puts out a small fire. Grab the extinguisher, a fire extinguisher, check the extinguisher.
The colours mean something: in Britain the body is red and a coloured band says what is inside, and using water on burning oil or on live electricity is dangerous. One extinguisher lasts seconds rather than minutes, so it buys escape rather than a fight.
1nounextinguisherThe cylinder that puts out a small fire.
“The chef grabbed an extinguisher and sprayed the flames leaping from the frying pan.”
extinguisher is a device.
Latin
extinguo — to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish
English
extinguish
English, today
extinguisher
Built from
From extinguish + -er. extinguish Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguo (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). a doublet of extinct.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA