hot-wire
热线,热丝,热线型
Definitions
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hot-wired, hot-wir·ing.
- : Slang. to start the engine of by short-circuiting the ignition.
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- : Electricity, Engineering. depending for its operation on the lengthening or increasing resistance of a wire when it is heated: hot-wire anemometer; hot-wire microphone.
Examples
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.