on fire

US pronunciation

American soundon fire

onfire

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

on - fire -> on fire

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] နာကျင်ပူလောင်မှုကို ခံစားနေရသည်။ မီးတောက်နေသည်

Full entry

fire / 'faÇǝ(r) / n

၁။ [U] မီး။ Are you afraid of fire?
၂။ (က) [U] မီးလောင်ခြင်း။ မီးရှို့ခြင်း။ The house is on fire. ❍ an automatic fire detection system ❍ fire-fighting equipment ❍ a factory gutted by fire ❍ The candle had set the curtains on fire (ie had made them start burning).
❍ A former employee admitted setting fire to the depot. ❍ The car overturned and caught fire.
(ခ) [C] မီး။ မီးလောင်ခြင်း။ a house fire ❍ forest fires ❍ A fire broke out in the warehouse yesterday. ❍The fire raged all night long.
၃။ (က) [C] အနွေးဓာတ်အတွက် မီးရှို့ရန် လောင်စာ၊ မီး၊ မီးလင်းဖို စသည်။ make/build a fire ❍ light a fire in the grate ❍ a log fire ❍ sit in front of a blazing/roaring fire. See also CAMP-FIRE
(ခ) [C] မီးလင်းဖို။ အပူပေး (ဓာတ်ငွေ့၊ လျှပ်စစ်) မီးဖို။ a gas/electric fire. See also HEATER, STOVE¹
၄။ [U] ပစ်ခတ်မှု။ automatic/sniper fire ❍ Troops came/were under (heavy) fire (ie were being shot at). ❍ The gunmen opened fire on (ie began to shoot) the police. ❍ return (sb's) fire (ie shoot back at sb) ❍ Their officer ordered them to hold their fire ( ie not to shoot). ❍ The girl was in the (direct) line of fire (ie between the person shooting and the target).
၅။ [U] စိတ်အားထက်သန်မှု။ His speech lacked fire.
v
၁။ ~ (sth) (at sb/sth); ~ (sth) into sth; ~ (on sb/sth) (က) ပစ်သည်။ The officer ordered his men to fire (at the enemy). ❍ He fired several arrows (at the target). ❍ The police fired (rubber bullets) into the crowd. ❍ She fired (a pistol) into the air. ❍ Soldiers fired on the crowd, killing three people. ❍ Our car was fired on.
(ခ) ပစ်သည်။ ထွက်သည်။ This weapon fires anti-aircraft missiles. ❍ The pistol suddenly fired.
၂။ ~ sth at sb ကရားရေလွှတ် တတွတ်တွတ် ပြောသည်။ fire insults / questions/ ideas at sb.
၃။ ~ sb (for sth/doing sth) (infml ) အလုပ် ဖြုတ်သည်။ He was fired (for stealing money from the till).
၄။ မီးရှို့သည်။ fire a haystack.
၅။ အင်ဂျင်စက် လည်သည်၊ ခုတ်သည်။ The engine isn't firing. ❍ The engine is only firing on three cylinders.
၆။ ~ sb (with sth) စိတ်အားတက်ကြွစေသည်။ be fired with enthusiasm/longing. ❍ Adventure stories fired his imagination.
၇။ မြေထည်ပစ္စည်းကို မီးဖုတ်သည်။ fire pottery/ bricks in a kiln.
❏ be in the firing-line [IDM ] ဝေဖန် ပြစ်တင်မှုကို ဒိုင်ခံရှင်းရသည်။ The Employment Secretary found himself in the firing-line over the recent job cuts.
❏ fire-alarm n မီးလှန့်ခေါင်းလောင်းစသည်။ The fire-alarm went off just before lunch.
❏ fire away [PHRV ] (infml ) ကဲ မေးစမ်း။ ဆိုစမ်း။ ‘I've got a couple of questions I'd like to ask you. ’ ‘Right, fire away. ’
❏ fire-ball n ပေါက်ကွဲမှုကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပေါ်သည့် မီးလုံး။
❏ fire-bomb n မီးလောင်ဗုံး။ a fire-bomb attack.
❏ fire-break n မီးတား။
❏ fire brigade (usu the fire brigade ) (Brit ) (also fire service, US fire department ) n (usu sing ) မီးသတ် တပ်ဖွဲ့။ call out the fire brigade.
❏ -fired (forming compound adjs ) … လောင်စာသုံး။ gas-fired central heating ❍ a coal-fired power station.
❏ fire door n မီးခံတံခါး။
❏ fire-drill (also fire-practice ) n [C, U] မီးလောင်မှုမှလွတ်မြောက်နိုင်ရန်ကြိုတင်လေ့ကျင့်ခန်း။
❏ fire-engine n မီးသတ်ကား။
❏ fire-escape n မီးဘေးမှ လွတ်မြောက်နိုင်ရန် အများအားဖြင့်အဆောက်အအုံအပြင်၌ တပ်ဆင်ထား သော မီးအရေးပေါ်လှေကား။ leave by the fire-escape.
❏ fire extinguisher (also extinguisher ) n မီးသတ်ဘူး။
❏ fire-fighter n မီးသတ်သမား။
❏ fire-guard n မီးလင်းဖိုရှေ့ သတ္တုမီးကာ။
❏ fire-lighter n [C, U] မီးမွှေးရသည့် ပစ္စည်း။
❏ fire sth off [PHRV ] ပစ်သည်။ fire off a few rounds/all one's ammunition.
❏ fire-power n [U]
၁။ ပစ်အား။
၂။ စိတ်ဓာတ် ခွန်အား။ The Democrats lost their political fire-power.
❏ fire-practice n [C,U] = FIRE-DRILL
❏ fire service n = FIRE BRIGADE
❏ fire station n မီးသတ်စခန်း။
❏ fire sth/sb up [PHRV ] နှိုးဆွလှုံ့ဆော်သည်။ နိုးကြွသည်။ fire up public concern ❍ Both teams were clearly fired up for the match.
❏ fire-water n [U] (infml joc ) မီးတောက်အရက်။ အရက်ပြင်း။
❏ firing / 'faÇǝrÇŋ / n [U] ပစ်ခတ်မှု။ သေနတ်သံ။ There was continuous firing to our left.
❏ firing-line n စစ်မြေပြင်ရှေ့တန်း။
❏ firing-squad n [CGp] ကွပ်မျက်ရေး သေနတ်တပ်ဖွဲ့။ He was sentenced to death by firing-squad.
❏ on fire [IDM ] နာကျင်ပူလောင်မှုကို ခံစားနေရသည်။ မီးတောက်နေသည်။ Her heart was on fire. ❍ He couldn't breathe. His chest was on fire.
❏ play with fire [IDM ] ပိုးဖလံမျိုး မီးကို တိုးသည်။
❏ under fire [IDM ] ရန်သူ၏ ပစ်ခတ်မှု ခံရသည်။ [ ဥ ] အပြင်းအထန် ဝေဖန်ခံရသည်။ The government is under fire from all sides on its economic policy.

More examples

The school was badly damaged by fire.
Three children died in a fire at their home last night.
[be destroyed by fire] : The theatre was completely destroyed by fire.
[start a fire] : It is thought that local youths may have started the fire.
[fight/tackle/put out a fire] : Twenty firefighters tackled the fire.
[a fire breaks out] : A fire broke out in a Paris nightclub.
[a forest fire] : The hot dry weather has increased the risk of forest fires.
A coal fire
[make/build a fire] : We went off to collect wood to build a fire.
[light a fire] : Once the fire was lit, the room seemed more inviting.
[a blazing/roaring fire] : We sat in front of a blazing log fire.
[an electric/gas fire] : There was an old gas fire in the bedroom.
We heard a sudden loud burst of machine gun fire.
Armed police arrived on the scene, and there was an exchange of fire.
His words were full of fire and passion.
They should hold his feet to the fire on statements he makes on complicated issues like defense and fiscal policy.

Synonyms

flames, blaze, bonfire, conflagration, combustion, inferno, animate, animation, ardor, arouse, attack, ax, bombarding, bombardment, bombing, boot, brio, burning, calenture, campfire, can, cannonade, cannonading, cast, charring, coals, crossfire, dash, detonate, devouring, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, eagerness, eject, electrify, element, embers, energy, enkindle, enliven, enthuse, enthusiasm, exalt, excite, excitement, exhilaration, expel, explode, explosion, fervency, fervor, flame and smoke, flare, fling, force, fusillade, galvanize, get rid of, ginger, give bum's rush, give marching orders, give one notice, give pink slip, give somebody the pink slip, give somebody the push, give somebody the sack, give somebody their cards, give the sack, glow, gusto, hail, hand walking papers, hearth, heartiness, heat, heave, heighten, holocaust, hot spot, hurl, ignite, ignition, impassion, impetuosity, incandescence, incite, inflame, inform, inspire, inspirit, intensify, intensity, intoxicate, irritate, kick out, kindle, launch, lay off, let off, let one go, life, light, liveliness, loose, luminosity, luster, oust, oxidation, passion, pep, phlogiston, pink slip, pitch, provoke, pull trigger, punch, put a match to, pyre, quicken, radiance, rapid oxidation, red heat, round, rouse, sack, salvo, scintillation, scorching, sea of flames, searing, set ablaze, set aflame, set alight, set fire to, set off, set on fire, shell, shelling, shoot, snap, sniping, sparkle, sparks, spirit, splendor, starch, start a fire, stir, terminate, thrill, throw out, tinder, toss, touch off, trigger, up in smoke, verve, vigor

Antonyms

apathy, bore, calm, calmness, coldness, coolness, delight, depress, deter, discourage, discouragement, dissuade, dull, dullness, employ, extinguish, hire, hold, idleness, inactivity, indifference, keep, laziness, lethargy, lifelessness, please, put out, retard, slow, soothe, spiritlessness, take on, unenthusiasm, weaken