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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfaɪf/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪf
Etymology 1
[edit]From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.
Noun
[edit]fife (plural fifes)
- A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]small shrill pipe
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Verb
[edit]fife (third-person singular simple present fifes, present participle fifing, simple past and past participle fifed)
- To play this instrument.
Etymology 2
[edit]Numeral
[edit]fife
- Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire.
- 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.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fife
Declension
[edit]Inflection of fife (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | fife | fifet | |
genitive | fifen | fifejen | |
partitive | fifeä | fifejä | |
illative | fifeen | fifeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | fife | fifet | |
accusative | nom. | fife | fifet |
gen. | fifen | ||
genitive | fifen | fifejen | |
partitive | fifeä | fifejä | |
inessive | fifessä | fifeissä | |
elative | fifestä | fifeistä | |
illative | fifeen | fifeihin | |
adessive | fifellä | fifeillä | |
ablative | fifeltä | fifeiltä | |
allative | fifelle | fifeille | |
essive | fifenä | fifeinä | |
translative | fifeksi | fifeiksi | |
abessive | fifettä | fifeittä | |
instructive | — | fifein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- fife-huilu
- sveitsinhuilu
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]fife f
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/aɪf
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- English terms borrowed from German
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- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- English numerals
- English terms with quotations
- en:Woodwind instruments
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ife
- Rhymes:Finnish/ife/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Musical instruments
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Italian non-lemma forms
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