fife

名词 n. 动词 v. 数词 num.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
动词 v.
  1. To play this instrument.
数词 num.
  1. Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.
    — “Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background.

词形变化

fifes plural fifes present,singular,third-person fifing participle,present fifed participle,past fifed past

词源

From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.
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