Firing-squad

Definition

fire / 'faÇǝ(r) / n ၁။ [U] မီး။ Are you afraid of fire? ၂။ (က) [U] မီးေလာင္ျခင္း။ မီး႐ိႈ႕ျခင္း။ 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။ မီးေလာင္ျခင္း။ a house fire ❍ forest fires ❍ A fire broke out in the warehouse yesterday. ❍The fire raged all night long. ၃။ (က) [C] အေႏြးဓာတ္အတြက္ မီး႐ိႈ႕ရန္ ေလာင္စာ၊ မီး၊ မီးလင္းဖို စသည္။ 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] မီးလင္းဖို။ အပူေပး (ဓာတ္ေငြ႕၊ လွ်ပ္စစ္) မီးဖို။ a gas/electric fire. See also HEATER, STOVE 1 ၄။ [U] ပစ္ခတ္မႈ။ 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] စိတ္အားထက္သန္မႈ။ His speech lacked fire. v ၁။ ~ (sth) (at sb/sth); ~ (sth) into sth; ~ (on sb/sth) (က) ပစ္သည္။ 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) ပစ္သည္။ ထြက္သည္။ This weapon fires anti-aircraft missiles. ❍ The pistol suddenly fired. ၂။ ~ sth at sb ကရားေရလႊတ္ တတြတ္တြတ္ ေျပာသည္။ fire insults / questions/ ideas at sb. ၃။ ~ sb (for sth/doing sth) ( infml ) အလုပ္ ျဖဳတ္သည္။ He was fired (for stealing money from the till). ၄။ မီး႐ိႈ႕သည္။ fire a haystack. ၅။ အင္ဂ်င္စက္ လည္သည္၊ ခုတ္သည္။ The engine isn't firing. ❍ The engine is only firing on three cylinders. ၆။ ~ sb (with sth) စိတ္အားတက္ႂကြေစသည္။ be fired with enthusiasm/longing. ❍ Adventure stories fired his imagination. ၇။ ေျမထည္ပစၥည္းကို မီးဖုတ္သည္။ fire pottery/ bricks in a kiln. ❏ be in the firing-line [ IDM ] ေဝဖန္ ျပစ္တင္မႈကို ဒိုင္ခံရွင္းရသည္။ The Employment Secretary found himself in the firing-line over the recent job cuts. ❏ fire-alarm n မီးလွန္႔ေခါင္းေလာင္းစသည္။ The fire-alarm went off just before lunch. ❏ fire away [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ကဲ ေမးစမ္း။ ဆိုစမ္း။ ‘I've got a couple of questions I'd like to ask you. ’ ‘Right, fire away. ’ ❏ fire-ball n ေပါက္ကြဲမႈေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚသည့္ မီးလံုး။ ❏ fire-bomb n မီးေလာင္ဗံုး။ a fire-bomb attack. ❏ fire-break n မီးတား။ ❏ fire brigade (usu the fire brigade ) ( Brit ) (also fire service, US fire department ) n (usu sing ) မီးသတ္ တပ္ဖြဲ႕။ call out the fire brigade. ❏ -fired (forming compound adjs ) … ေလာင္စာသံုး။ gas-fired central heating ❍ a coal-fired power station. ❏ fire door n မီးခံတံခါး။ ❏ fire-drill (also fire-practice ) n [C, U] မီးေလာင္မႈမွလြတ္ေျမာက္ႏိုင္ရန္ႀကိဳတင္ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း။ ❏ fire-engine n မီးသတ္ကား။ ❏ fire-escape n မီးေဘးမွ လြတ္ေျမာက္ႏိုင္ရန္ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္အေဆာက္အအံုအျပင္၌ တပ္ဆင္ထား ေသာ မီးအေရးေပၚေလွကား။ leave by the fire-escape. ❏ fire extinguisher (also extinguisher ) n မီးသတ္ဘူး။ ❏ fire-fighter n မီးသတ္သမား။ ❏ fire-guard n မီးလင္းဖိုေရွ႕ သတၱဳမီးကာ။ ❏ fire-lighter n [C, U] မီးေမႊးရသည့္ ပစၥည္း။ ❏ fire sth off [ PHRV ] ပစ္သည္။ fire off a few rounds/all one's ammunition. ❏ fire-power n [U] ၁။ ပစ္အား။ ၂။ စိတ္ဓာတ္ ခြန္အား။ The Democrats lost their political fire-power. ❏ fire-practice n [C,U] = FIRE-DRILL ❏ fire service n = FIRE BRIGADE ❏ fire station n မီးသတ္စခန္း။ ❏ fire sth/sb up [ PHRV ] ႏိႈးဆြလံႈ႕ေဆာ္သည္။ ႏိုးႂကြသည္။ fire up public concern ❍ Both teams were clearly fired up for the match. ❏ fire-water n [U] ( infml joc ) မီးေတာက္အရက္။ အရက္ျပင္း။ ❏ firing / 'faÇǝrÇŋ / n [U] ပစ္ခတ္မႈ။ ေသနတ္သံ။ There was continuous firing to our left. ❏ firing-line n စစ္ေျမျပင္ေရွ႕တန္း။ ❏ firing-squad n [CGp] ကြပ္မ်က္ေရး ေသနတ္တပ္ဖြဲ႕။ He was sentenced to death by firing-squad. ❏ on fire [ IDM ] နာက်င္ပူေလာင္မႈကို ခံစားေနရသည္။ မီးေတာက္ေနသည္။ Her heart was on fire. ❍ He couldn't breathe. His chest was on fire. ❏ play with fire [ IDM ] ပိုးဖလံမ်ဳိး မီးကို တိုးသည္။ ❏ under fire [ IDM ] ရန္သူ၏ ပစ္ခတ္မႈ ခံရသည္။ [ ဥ ] အျပင္းအထန္ ေဝဖန္ခံရသည္။ The government is under fire from all sides on its economic policy.

Examples

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