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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A feature on a joystick or gamepad that permits automatic firing, as though the player were repeatedly pressing the fire button.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: video-games
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noun
A feature that allows a weapon to fire automatically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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verb
To fire automatically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, video-games, war, weaponry
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History
Etymology tree English auto- Proto-Indo-European *péh2wr̥ Proto-Germanic *fōr Proto-West Germanic *fuir Old English fȳr Middle English fyr English fire English autofire From auto- + fire.
