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発音

• IPA: /ˈfaɪf/
• 韻: -aɪf

語源 1

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

名詞

fife (plural fifes)

1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

派生語

動詞

fife (third-person singular simple present fifes, present participle fifing, simple past and past participle fifed)

1. To play this instrument.

語源 2

数詞

fife

1. Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.
   • 1963, Arthur C Clarke, chapter 6, in Glidepath, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 66:

     “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.

参考

• niner

アナグラム

• fief

数詞

fīfe

1. (uncommon) nominative/accusative of fif