Italian Meaning of back fire
Controfuoco
Other Italian words related to Controfuoco
Nearest Words of back fire
- back exercise => Esercizi per la schiena
- back entrance => ingresso posteriore
- back end => back-end
- back down => indietreggiare
- back door => Porta posteriore
- back country => entroterra
- back circle => Cerchio posteriore
- back channel => canale secondario
- back burner => Bruciatore posteriore
- back breaker => spezzaschiena
Definitions and Meaning of back fire in English
back fire ()
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.
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, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.
back fire (v. i.)
To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.
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.
FAQs About the word back fire
Controfuoco
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., A premature
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back exercise => Esercizi per la schiena, back entrance => ingresso posteriore, back end => back-end, back down => indietreggiare, back door => Porta posteriore,