Word Finder - fired

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To set (something, often a building) on fire.

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To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.

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If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.

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To drive away by setting a fire.

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To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).

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To shoot (a gun or analogous device).

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He fired his radar gun at passing cars.

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To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.

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Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

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• open fire
• shoot

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To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

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To cause an action potential in a cell.

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When a neuron fires, it transmits information.

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To forcibly direct (something).

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He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.

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(computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).

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The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.

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To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.

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to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge

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To animate; to give life or spirit to.

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to fire the genius of a young man

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To feed or serve the fire of.

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to fire a boiler

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To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

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To cauterize.

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To catch fire; to be kindled.

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To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

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Dismissed, let go from a job.

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Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.

I thought I got fired from that job.

He fired at another figure trying to force its way into the circle.

Alex fired twice more and the bear dropped to the ground.

She reached for her lap top computer on the coffee table and fired it up.

I thought Dr. Mallard was the only doctor you hadn't fired yet.

She aimed and fired.

If you'd fired me, or even hit me...

His words blasted through her thin armor and she fired in defense.

Within the entrenchment stood ten guns that were being fired through openings in the earthwork.

The weapon hadn't been cleaned since it was last fired, but all six chambers contained bullets.

A bullet fired by a French sharpshooter hit him in the fleshy part of his leg.

On the twenty-fourth of August the battle of the Shevardino Redoubt was fought, on the twenty-fifth not a shot was fired by either side, and on the twenty-sixth the battle of Borodino itself took place.

Did you get fired?

Alex pointed the rifle into the air and fired twice.

If he threw out every woman he slept with, she'd have to save this option for a last resort, in case he fired her the morning after.

The recital of their travels fired the youthful imagination of young Marco Polo, son of Nicolo, and he set out for the court of Kublai Khan, with his father and uncle, in 1265.

A great gun was fired to different points of the compass and all the country within its range, including the town of Cuddalore, passed into the possession of the English.

Affairs were brought to a climax by a series of conflicts which took place at Canea on the 4th of February; the Turkish troops fired on the Christians, a conflagration broke out in the town, and many thousands of Christians took refuge on the foreign warships in the bay.

In 1770, on the 5th of March, in a street brawl, a number of citizens were killed or wounded by the soldiers, who fired into a crowd that were baiting a sentry.

Berzelius, who, fired with enthusiasm by the original theory of Dalton and the law of multiple proportions, determined the equivalents of combining ratios of many elements in an enormous number of compounds.2 He prosecuted his labours in this field for thirty years; as proof of his industry it may be mentioned that as early as 1818 he had determined the combining ratios of about two thousand simple and compound substances.

About half-past eight the combat began to wane, and the last shots were fired at ten.

Explosive mixtures of marsh-gas and air may be fired by an unprotected light.

Another Burmese war was the result, the first shot being fired in January 1852.

He raised his gun and fired at the great beast.

Early in his presidency, in a 1953 address that would become known as his "Cross of Iron" speech, he declared, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

How ridiculous it is to say I had drunk so copiously of the noble spirit of Dr. Howe that I was fired with the desire to rescue from darkness and obscurity the little Alabamian!

They'll be fired on at the crossing.

All the guns, without waiting for orders, were being fired in the direction of the conflagration.

Another in the same place turned round and fired in the air; a third was striking the horse Kutuzov himself rode.

And they did indeed get somewhere, though not to their right places; a few eventually even got to their right place, but too late to be of any use and only in time to be fired at.

Once a Frenchman Tikhon was trying to capture fired a pistol at him and shot him in the fleshy part of the back.

It seemed to Petya that at the moment the shot was fired it suddenly became as bright as noon.

If we write them down, we could get fired.

Jule threw himself down as she leveled it and fired.

When the bear continued toward him, he fired.

She couldn't be late again for her job as an assistant general manager of a fast food joint, or she'd be fired.

Lana raised the laser gun, closed her eyes and fired.

The sound was like a rifle shot and for a fleeting second Dean feared someone had fired.

There were no sounds of pursuit, no sounds of arrows being drawn or fired.

I definitely don't want to get fired.

At least she wasn't fired.

Within the enclosure of the Khalifa's house is the tomb of Hubert Howard, son of the 9th earl of Carlisle, who was killed in the house at the capture of the city by a splinter of a shell fired at the Mandi's tomb.

Italy, Piero de' Medici, encouraged by the league, enlisted a number of mercenaries and marched on Florence, but the citizens, fired by Savonarola's enthusiasm, flew to arms and prepared for an energetic resistance; owing to Piero's incapacity and the exhaustion of his funds the expedition came to nothing.

Towards the end of the same year a young workman of Tarragona, Oliva Marcousi, fired at the king in Madrid.

During the honeymoon a pastrycook named Otero fired at the young sovereigns as they 'were driving in Madrid.

When used for ore smelting, the reduced metal and the accompanying slag were to be caught, after leaving the arc and while still liquid, in a hearth fired with ordinary fuel.

Hong-Kong or Victoria harbour constantly presents an animated appearance, as many as 240 guns having been fired as salutes in a single day.

Then the pile was fired.

In 1736 a smuggler named Wilson, who had won popularity by helping a companion to escape from the Tolbooth prison, was hanged; and, some slight disturbance occurring at the execution, the city guard fired on the mob, killing a few and wounding a considerable number of persons.

Porteous, who was said to have fired at the people with his own hand, was brought to trial and sentenced to death.