gunfire

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡʌnfʌɪə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report. uncountable,usually
    — Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
  2. The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets. uncountable,usually
    — Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.
  3. The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun. uncountable,usually
    — Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim and a padlock, the key of which is to be kept by the Porter on duty or by the Police Guard who is to release them at gunfire in the morning.
  4. Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade. slang,uncountable,usually
    — They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.

词形变化

gunfires plural

词汇关系

相关词
gunnery gunpowder gunshot gunshy

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis
Proto-Germanic *gunþiz
Old Norse gunnr
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís
Proto-Germanic *hildiz
Old Norse hildr
Old Norse Gunnhildrder.
Middle English gunne
English gun
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English fire
English gunfire
From gun + fire.
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