Meaning of FIRING
| Pronunciation: | | 'fIring
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- [n] the act of discharging a gun
- [n] the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- [n] the act of setting on fire or catching fire
- [n] the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
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| | Synonyms: | | discharge, dismissal, dismission, fire, firing off, ignition, inflammation, kindling, liberation, lighting, release, sack, sacking |
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| | See Also: | | antiaircraft fire, artillery fire, attack, barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, broadside, burning, burst, call fire, cannon fire, combustion, concentrated fire, conclusion, conge, counterfire, counterpreparation fire, cover, covering fire, crossfire, deactivation, destruction fire, direct fire, dishonorable discharge, distributed fire, ending, fusillade, grazing fire, gun, harassing fire, inactivation, indirect fire, interdiction fire, massed fire, neutralization fire, observed fire, onrush, onset, onslaught, preparation fire, radar fire, registration fire, removal, salvo, scheduled fire, searching fire, Section Eight, shelling, shooting, shot, superannuation, supporting fire, suppressive fire, termination, unobserved fire, volley | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fir"ing\, n.
1. The act of disharging firearms.
2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working
it. --Knight.
3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison.
4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to
intense heat in a kiln.
5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
{Firing iron}, an instrument used in cauterizing.
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| | Related Terms: | | afflatus, agitation, alcohol, animating spirit, animation, animus, antiaircraft fire, archery, arousal, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, cashiering, casting, charcoal, chucking, coal, coke, combustible, conge, cross fire, curtain fire, deconsecration, defrocking, deposal, deposition, deprivation, dethronement, direct fire, disbarment, disbarring, discharge, discrownment, disemployment, disenthronement, dismissal, displacement, displacing, divine afflatus, dope, drumming out, dry fire, enlivenment, ethane, ethanol, exasperation, excitation, excitement, excommunication, exhilaration, expulsion, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, fireball, firepower, fireworks, flack, flak, flammable, flammable material, flammation, flinging, fomentation, forced resignation, forced separation, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, furloughing, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, genius, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunnery, gunplay, heaving, heptane, hexane, high-angle fire, horizontal fire, hurling, ignition, impeachment, incitation, incitement, infection, inflammable, inflammable material, inflammation, infusion, inspiration, instigation, interdiction fire, irritation, isooctane, jaculation, jet fuel, kerosene, kicking upstairs, kindling, layoff, lighting, lighting up, liquidation, lobbing, machine-gun fire, methane, methanol, mortar fire, moving spirit, musketry, natural gas, octane, oil, ousting, overthrow, overthrowal, paraffin, peat, pensioning off, pentane, pep rally, pep talk, percussion fire, pink slip, pistol fire, pitching, projection, propane, propellant, provocation, purge, rabble-rousing, raking fire, rapid fire, removal, retirement, ricochet fire, rifle fire, rocket fuel, shellfire, shooting, shoot-out, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, stimulation, stirring, stirring-up, superannuation, surplusing, suspension, the ax, the boot, the bounce, the gate, the sack, throwing, ticket, time fire, trajection, trapshooting, turf, unchurching, unfrocking, unseating, vertical fire, walking papers, zone fire |
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