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backfire    音标拼音: [b'ækf,ɑɪr]
n. 逆火,回火,放火
vi. 放逆火,预先放火,发生意外

逆火,回火,放火放逆火,预先放火,发生意外

backfire
n 1: the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a
gun is fired [synonym: {blowback}, {backfire}]
2: a loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or
exhaust of an internal combustion engine
3: a fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an
approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned
area in its path
4: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker [synonym: {backfire},
{boomerang}]
v 1: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired
effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of
trouble" [synonym: {backfire}, {backlash}, {recoil}]
2: emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire; "My
old car backfires all the time"
3: set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie
fire

backfire \backfire\, back fire \back fire\
1. A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn
only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet
both must go out for lack of fuel.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2.
(a) A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil
engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke,
tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to
that in which it should travel; also called a {knock}
or {ping}.
(b) an explosion in the exhaust passages of an internal
combustion engine.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. PJC] Backfire


Backfire \Back"fire`\ Back-fire \Back"-fire`\, v. i.
1. (Engin.) To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
-- said of an internal-combustion engine.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. Of a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that
the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of
from the external jet of mixed gas and air. --
{Back"-fir`ing}, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

116 Moby Thesaurus words for "backfire":
backlash, backlashing, balefire, bang, beacon, beacon fire, blast,
blaze, blow out, blow up, blowout, blowup, bonfire, boom,
boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, burning ghat,
burst, bust, campfire, cannon, cannon off, carom, cheerful fire,
combustion, come to grief, comeback, conflagration, contrecoup,
corposant, counterattack, counterblast, counterblow, counterfire,
counterinsurgency, countermeasure, counterrevolution, counterstep,
counterstroke, cozy fire, crackling fire, crematory, death fire,
defense, detonate, detonation, discharge, explode, explosion,
fall through, fen fire, fire, fizzle, flame, flare, flash,
flashing point, flicker, flickering flame, fly back, forest fire,
fox fire, fulguration, fulminate, fulmination, funeral pyre,
go off, have repercussions, ignis fatuus, ignition, ingle, kick,
kick back, kickback, lambent flame, lash back, lay an egg, let off,
marshfire, miscarry, miss, open fire, prairie fire, pyre,
raging fire, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil,
repercuss, repercussion, report, repulse, resile, resilience,
retort, ricochet, sea of flames, set off, sheet of fire, shoot,
signal beacon, smudge fire, snap back, spring, spring back,
three-alarm fire, touch off, two-alarm fire, watch fire, wildfire,
witch fire

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