Traditional Chinese Meaning of back fire

回火

Other Traditional Chinese words related to 回火

Definitions and Meaning of back fire in English

Webster

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.

Webster

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

回火

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

坍塌,撲通一聲倒下,回旋鏢,摺疊,滑倒,鬥爭,衰落,下降,扁魚,失敗

成功,繁榮,蓬勃發展,昌盛

back exercise => 背部鍛鍊, back entrance => 後門, back end => 後端, back down => 退縮, back door => 後門,