MISFIRE

miss, misfire

(noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc)

misfire, dud

(noun) an explosion that fails to occur

misfire

(verb) fail to fire or detonate; “The guns misfired”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

misfire (plural misfires)

An act of misfiring.

Verb

misfire (third-person singular simple present misfires, present participle misfiring, simple past and past participle misfired)

(firearm) To fail to discharge properly.

(of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence.

(by extension) To fail to achieve the anticipated result.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 April 2024

MOTIVE

(adjective) impelling to action; “it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function”- Arthur Pap; “motive pleas”; “motivating arguments”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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