Word Finder - firing

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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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The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.

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After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.

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The fuel for a fire.

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The act of adding fuel to a fire.

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The discharge of a gun or other weapon.

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The dismissal of someone from a job.

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Cauterization.

The soldiers started firing without orders.

But the firing and shouting did not relate to them.

The ranks of the infantry disappeared amid the smoke but their long- drawn shout and rapid musketry firing could still be heard.

The firing grew louder and louder.

Scarcely had Pierre laid his head on the pillow before he felt himself falling asleep, but suddenly, almost with the distinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groans and cries, and smelled blood and powder, and a feeling of horror and dread of death seized him.

The purpose of adjusting the sheaf is to get all mortars firing parallel.

Whom are they firing at?

He was told that there in Perkhushkovo the earth trembled from the firing, but nobody could answer his questions as to who had won.

These puffs of smoke and (strange to say) the sound of the firing produced the chief beauty of the spectacle.

Pierre saw that there was a bridge in front of him and that soldiers were doing something on both sides of it and in the meadow, among the rows of new-mown hay which he had taken no notice of amid the smoke of the campfires the day before; but despite the incessant firing going on there he had no idea that this was the field of battle.

The booming cannonade and the fusillade of musketry were growing more intense over the whole field, especially to the left where Bagration's fleches were, but where Pierre was the smoke of the firing made it almost impossible to distinguish anything.

Sometimes shouts were heard through the firing, but it was impossible to tell what was being done there.

Occasionally he stopped, listened to the firing, and gazed intently at the battlefield.

Without moving from that spot or firing a single shot the regiment here lost another third of its men.

He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.

They were so near that they thought they were the cause of the firing and shouting.

The French were evidently firing and shouting at him.

The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway.

He jerked a rifle from its scabbard and swung it around with one arm, firing it into the air.

The document is entitled "Secrett Inventionis, proffitabill and necessary in theis dayes for defence of this Iland, and withstanding of strangers, enemies of God's truth and religion," a and the inventions consist of (1) a mirror for burning the enemies' ships at any distance, (2) a piece of artillery destroying everything round an arc of a circle, and (3) a round metal chariot, so constructed that its occupants could move it rapidly and easily, while firing out through small holes in it.

Meantime the attempts of the Liberian government to control the Kru coast led to various troubles, such as the fining or firing upon foreign steamships for alleged contraventions of regulations.

It has many advantages for heavy high-speed service, namely, large and well-proportioned boiler, practically unlimited grate area, fire-box of favourable proportions for firing, fairly low centre of gravity, short coupling-rods, and, finally, a combination of the safe and smooth riding qualities of the fourcoupled bogie type, with great steaming capacity and moderate axle loads.

Firing no shot in his defence, his little troop swelled until it became an army.

Formerly the pans were heated by open firing from below; but now the almost universal practice is to boil by steam injected from perforated pipes coiled within the pan, such injection favouring the uniform heating of the mass and causing an agitation favourable to the ultimate mixture and saponification of the materials.

Direct firing is used for the second boiling of the soap mixture; but for this superheated steam may with advantage be substituted, either applied by a steam-jacket round the pan or by a closed coil of pipe within it.

Any Turkish battery that was chosen for target generally ceased firing before long; and the assailants were disposed to assume that the work was definitely put out of action, whereas all that had happened in reality was that the hostile gunners had been driven from their guns.

These small furnaces are frequently arranged for direct coal firing, but regenerative gasfired furnaces are also employed.

It is unquestionably better and easier to evaporate in vacuo than in an open pan, and with a better system of firing, a more liberal provision of steam generators, and multiple-effect evaporators of improved construction, a far larger yield of sugar is obtained from the juice than was possible of attainment in those days, and the megass often suffices as fuel for the crop.

The value of fresh bagasse, or as it is often called " green " bagasse, as fuel varies with the kind of canes from which it comes, with their treatment in the mill, and with the skill used in firing; but it may be stated broadly that I lb of fresh bagasse will produce from I a lb to 24 lb of steam, according to the conditions.

The firing must be repeated at intervals as the leaves become soft again.

Actual firing began about 2 o'clock, when the "Merrimac" was nearly a mile from the "Congress" and the "Cumberland."

The "Monitor" had the advantage of being able to out-manoeuvre her heavier and more unwieldy adversary; but the revolving turret made firing difficult and communications were none too good with the pilot house, the position of which on the forward deck lessened the range of the two turret-guns.

When the battle was renewed (about 11.30) the "Merrimac" began firing at the "Monitor's" pilot house; and a little after noon a shot struck the sight-hole of the pilot house and blinded Lieut.

Napoleon therefore, to create a diversion, sent forward his centre, now consisting only of cavalry, to charge the enemy's artillery, which was deployed in a long line and firing into Aspern.

The color is fixed and the glaze set by secondary firing at a lower temperature than that necessary for hardening the p4te.

They have a superstitious objection to firing a gun, thinking that it offends the deities of the woods and valleys, and brings down rain.

The ridge was captured with little resistance, but the sound of the firing at once set all the neighbouring troops in motion, and fortunately so, for the French had immediately retaliated on von der Goltz's audacious attack.

Finding that, in spite of his orders, the firing at the front continued increasing in intensity, Steinmetz at length rode to the front himself.

The sound of the heavy firing coming from the eastward convinced him of what had been gradually dawning on him - that with barely 30,000 men he was in the presence of the whole French army, whose attitude at this moment sufficiently indicated their determination to fight.

The Prussians, having seen the cavalry whilst yet at a distance, ceased firing, formed their skirmishers into groups, and the closed supports standing in deployed lines, two deep, shattered the cavalry with volleys and file-firing, as with blown and exhausted horses they endeavoured to close with their adversaries.

Their fire threw the latter into serious confusion and he had already decided to attack with his nearest division (de Cissey) in the direction of the steeple of Vionville, when his attention was caught by the outbreak of heavy firing in the copses below him, and the entry of fresh Prussian guns into action.

It was almost dark when the Prussians approached the French position between Rezonville and the woods to the northward, and the troops soon lost direction in the smoke and became involved in the direst confusion; the firing again blazed out for a few moments, only to die away as utter exhaustion at length put an end to the Prussian advance.

Firing only ceased as darkness fell, and next morning the fighting was again renewed.

Tromp, conscious that his ships were weaker in build, at first drew away, firing at the spars of the English ships in order to cripple them.

The " Nurnberg " ceased firing for several minutes to allow her to surrender, then gave her a final broadside, and she went down at half-past nine with flag flying.

In the night of the 16th Johnston, taking advantage of a lull in the firing, withdrew suddenly from the city.

Continuing these experiments, they found that in acetylene gas under ordinary pressures the decomposition brought about in one portion of the gas, either by heat or the firing in it of a small detonator, did not spread far beyond the point at which the decomposition started, while if the acetylene was compressed to a pressure of more than 30 lb on the square inch, the decomposition travelled throughout the mass and became in reality detonation.

It obviously attains its maximum in the case of the firing of pure "oxyhydrogen" gas (a mixture of hydrogen with exactly half its volume of oxygen, the quantity it combines with in becoming water,, German Knall-gas).

The amount of drift for each nature of gun at different ranges was determined by actual firing.

Special sights were introduced to overcome the difficulties of dis appearing guns, large guns firing through small ports, &c. Such were \ the Moncrieff reflecting sights, and the " chase sights " for the 10-in.