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Definition: Misfire |
MisfireNoun1. An explosion that fails to occur. 2. A failure to hit (or meet or find etc). Verb1. Fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The failure to establish a discharge between a main anode and a cathode during an intended conduction period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A drillhole charged with explosives, in which all or part of the explosive has failed to detonate. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An explosive charge in a drill hole that has partly or completely failed to explode as planned. Causes include unskilled charging; defective explosive, detonator, or fuse; broken electric circuit or--most dangerous--cutting off of part or all of the charge through lateral rock movement as other holes in the vicinity are fired. Stringent safety precautions cover procedure in minimizing these risks and in dealing with known or suspected misfires. A smoldering fuse may delay explosion, causing a hangfire, so return to workings after a suspected failure is necessary. Another main cause of accident is drilling into or dangerously near a socket--an apparently empty drill hole. See also:missed hole;hangfire. (references) | |
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Synonyms: MisfireSynonyms: dud (n), miss (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Misfire |
| Specialty definitions using "misfire": non-uniform diagnostic trouble code, non-uniform DTC ♦ relieving shot. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Misfire (1960) | |
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| "Misfire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.15% of the time. "Misfire" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.15% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Noun (common) | 3.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "misfire": misfire hole ♦ misfire of engine. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
engine misfire | 11 |
misfire | 10 |
cylinder misfire | 4 |
misfire p0301 | 3 |
4.3l misfire | 2 |
engine misfire vortec | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "misfire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mosshkrepje, nuk shkrep. (various references) | |
Arabic | كبو (trip), عدم إطلاق النار, خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), إختل, أخطأ (err, fluff, fumble, go wrong, goof, make a mistake, miss, mistake, sin, slip, stumble, trip up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отказвам (decline, deny, negative, protest, rebuff, refuse, thumb down), нямам успех, неуспешно запалване, невъзпламеняване, не се паля, засечка (backlash, falter, fluff, hitch, kink), лошо изпечена тухла, провалям се (break down, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, fizzle out, fold, go awry, go phut, go to pot, go wrong, slump, sour, tumble down), правя засечка (misgive, miss fire). (various references) | |
Chinese | 射不出. (various references) | |
Czech | vybouchnout, selhat (abort, backfire, break down, come to nothing, fail, fall down on the job, fizzle out, give out, go wrong, lapse, miscarry), selhání (failure, lapse, malfunction), nevyjít (go off at half-cock). (various references) | |
Danish | tændsvigt (spark failure), klikke, ikke gå af, forsager (misfire hole, missed hole), fejltaending (spark failure). (various references) | |
Dutch | mislukte ontsteking (spark failure), weigeraar, niet ontploft boorgat (misfire hole, missed hole), hapering van de ontsteking (spark failure), geketste mijn, achtergebleven schot, achterblijver (runt). (various references) | |
Farsi | درنرفتن(گلوله یابمب). (various references) | |
French | rater (miss). (various references) | |
German | fehlzünden, Fehlzündung (backfire, misfiring). (various references) | |
Greek | αφλογιστία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"חטיא (muff), לא לירות, אי ירי", "חטא" (misleading, missing a target). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszul égetett tégla, nem robbant lövés (misfiring), hibás gyújtás (misfiring), gyújtáskihagyás (spark failure), elhibázott lövés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | macet (asleep, disturbance, interference, out of order, stuck, traffic delay), gagal (abortive, fail, unsuccessful, vain). (various references) | |
Italian | mina mancata, mancata accensione (spark failure), perdita di innesco (spark failure), perdere colpi, far cilecca, fallire (abort, backfire, break, collapse, fail, flop, go bankrupt, miscarry, Miss, smash, to go bankrupt), colpo mancato (Miss, muff). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不発 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふはつ. (various references) | |
Korean | 불발. (various references) | |
Manx | skellym, lockey, jannoo skellym. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isfiremay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tiro falhado (misfire hole, missed hole, missfire). (various references) | |
Romanian | rateu, omisiune de aprindere, nu exploda, da rateu. (various references) | |
Russian | осечка (flash in the pan), пропуск вспышки, перебой зажигания, дать осечку (hang fire, misgive), давать осечку...осечка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zatajivanje, zastoj (deadlock, halt, hitch, hold up, malfunction, pause, slowdown, stagnancy, stagnation, stand, standstill, stasis, stoppage, tie up), ne paliti. (various references) | |
Spanish | mina fallada, tiro errado (Miss), falsa explosión, fallo del encendido (spark failure), fallo de explosión, fallo de encendido (spark failure), fallar (act up, backfire, Bumble, fail, flaw, give out, give up, let down, make a hash of it, Miss, ruff, rule, trump), error de tiro, barreno fallado (misfire hole, missed hole). (various references) | |
Swedish | klicka (abort, click, fail, miscarry). (various references) | |
Turkish | teklemek (act up, hesitate, kick, knock, skip, stutter), tekleme (knocking), ateş almamak (fail), ateş almama, anlaşılmamak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | осічка, не вибухати, давати осічку. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phát súng tịt, đạn không nổ, động cơ không nổ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "misfire": misfired, misfires. (additional references) | |
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"Misfire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maiziere, misfiry, misie, miswire. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misfire" (pronounced mi'sfī"er) |
| 3 | -f ī" er | fire. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: fermis. | |
-2 letters: emirs, fermi, fires, firms, fries, frise, mires, miser, reifs, rimes, serif. | |
-3 letters: emfs, emir, fems, fire, firm, firs, ires, iris, mire, miri, mirs, mise, refs, reif, reis, rems, rife, rifs, rime, rims, rise, seif, semi, serf, sire. | |
-4 letters: efs, emf, ems, ers, fem, fer, fie, fir, ifs, ire, ism, mir, mis, ref. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-i-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: flimsier, misfired, misfires, misinfer, ramifies, rimfires. | |
+2 letters: furmities, metrifies, micrifies, misinfers, modifiers, mortifies, mystifier. | |
+3 letters: amplifiers, emulsifier, foreignism, fumitories, magnifiers, mystifiers, remodifies, simplifier. | |
+4 letters: deformities, disaffirmed, emulsifiers, familiarise, foreignisms, formalities, formicaries, freneticism, humidifiers, infirmaries, infirmities, microfiches, midfielders, midwiferies, millefioris, misinferred, misinformed, premodifies, simplifiers. | |
+5 letters: affirmatives, conformities, discomfiture, disconfirmed, familiarised, familiarises, familiarizes, familiarness, foraminifers, freneticisms, indemnifiers, infomercials, luminiferous, microfilmers, mifepristone, misinferring, misreferring, oversimplify, seminiferous, uniformities. | |
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