fire hose

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.
    — Although the subway structure is of non-combustible material, a fire protection system, with fire hose cabinets on every underground platform, has been provided.
  2. Any fast, heavy stream (e.g. of information). idiomatic
    — She felt she was standing in front of a fire hose of instructions, trying to absorb them all with a sponge.
  3. A feed of all updates to a website.
    — Links contained within feeds (RSS, fire hose, syndicated)
  4. A human penis. colloquial,idiomatic
  5. An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.

词形变化

fire hoses plural firehose alternative

词源

From fire + hose.
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