English Dictionary

overfire

/ˈəʊvəfaɪə/

verb

(transitive) To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc. / (transitive, ceramics) To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.

The firefighters worked hard to overfire the flames.

意味（1）

(transitive) To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc.

I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.

意味（2）

(transitive, ceramics) To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.

BUBBLES IN GLAZE may be caused by too heavy an application, or by severe underfiring or overfiring. … LOSS OF COLOR IN CHINA PAINTING is a result of overfiring or mixing too much medium with the paint. Be careful not to overfire china colors, and if a light shade of a dark color is needed, apply the color very lightly rather than thinning too much.

意味（3）

(transitive, physiology) Of a cell or group of cells: to fire excessively.

Geoffery Schultz, a student of [Ronald] Melzack, has recently conducted a study showing that visual hallucinations need not be caused by psychopathology but may result from the disruption of sensory input among patients suffering eye damage. The neuromatrix, in Melzack's theory, overfires its output messages in the absence of stimulation from external sources (or temping feedback), and creates images – often fantastic or exaggerated – that may be experienced as real.