Timeline for How to say a fireplace is "on"
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| Aug 7, 2021 at 23:21 | vote | accept | Gergely | ||
| Aug 7, 2021 at 20:04 | answer | added | Old Brixtonian | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 9:52 | answer | added | Michael Harvey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 23:37 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | If a fireplace is lit, it means that there is a light shining on/in it. If a fire is lit, it means that the fire (which has been prepared) has been set alight. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 20:33 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @FeliniusRex - where I come from, we have gas fires and electric fires. These can be 'on' or 'off'. A fireplace is a kind of hole in the wall with a chimney above, lined with fireproof bricks, and often with a arrangement around it called a 'mantel', and possibly a tiled floor level 'kerb'. Fireplaces used to have an iron grate that held burning coal or wood, and often you find a gas or electric fire fitted in place of that. Of course most UK homes have a boiler and radiators these days. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 20:00 | comment | added | FeliniusRex - gone | Besides all that, there are different kinds of fireplaces. A gas fireplace can be on, but produce no flame. An electric fireplace generates flames/heat soon after being turned on. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:58 | comment | added | FeliniusRex - gone | scratching head I said that because it's pretty common in my experience to say things are "lit". When you light a fire, you don't light a fireplace. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:55 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | A fire burns in a fireplace. The fireplace is not the fire. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:50 | comment | added | Jeff Zeitlin | @FeliniusRex - one says that a lamp is lit, or that a candelabrum is lit, even though it's only the bulb or the candle(s) that are actually lit. As far as lit ≅ intense, that usage is far less common in my experience. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:47 | comment | added | FeliniusRex - gone | I wouldn't say it was "lit", because that's slang for "intense". Besides, are you really lighting the entire fireplace? | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:47 | comment | added | Jeff Zeitlin | No, the wood is burning, not the fireplace. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:47 | answer | added | fev | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:42 | comment | added | Gergely | Maybe "burning"? | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:41 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:41 | comment | added | Jeff Zeitlin | Lit was my first thought, and I suspect that it's going to be the best choice. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 19:36 | history | asked | Gergely | CC BY-SA 4.0 |