See Also:

gunfire (oh) and Eve (iou)


gunfire (oh)



the repeated shooting of guns, or the noise made by this
::I heard a burst of distant gunfire .
::Two men were shot in an exchange of gunfire with the police.

Eve (iou)



Eve noun1. [i:v]
[Old English efe from late Latin Eva from Hebrew awwah, perh. rel. to ay alive or Aramaic ewya serpent.]
The first woman in Hebrew tradition.
daughter of Eve a woman, esp. one regarded as showing a typically feminine trait. not know from Eve have no knowledge of the appearance of (a woman).
Comb.: (African) Eve hypothesis the hypothesis (based on study of mitochondrial DNA) that modern humans have a common female ancestor who lived in Africa around 200,000 years ago.