Firing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The process of applying fire or heat, as in the hardening or glazing of ceramics.
  • n. Fuel for fires.
  • n. The act or an instance of dismissing someone from a job.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
  • n. The fuel for a fire.
  • n. The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
  • n. The dismissal of someone from a job.
  • v. Present participle of fire.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of discharging firearms.
  • n. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
  • n. The application of fire, or of a cautery.
  • n. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
  • n. Fuel; firewood or coal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of applying fire or of making a fire for any purpose; specifically, the method of treating a furnace with regard to the use of fuel: as, hard firing (supplying fuel frequently and urging the fire); light firing (moderate supplies of fuel at frequent intervals); steady firing; heavy firing.
  • n. Fuel; fire-wood or coal.
  • n. The exposing of any material to high temperatures to burn, bake, etc.: as, the firing of painted glass to fix the colors; the firing of porcelain to melt and fix the glaze.
  • n. The act of discharging firearms.
  • n. The application of fire or of a cautery in surgery and farriery; cauterization.
  • n. In bell-ringing, the ringing of all the bells in a peal at once. It is practised in England on occasions of general rejoicing or mourning. In the latter case the bells are muffled.
  • n. Same as scorching, 3: applied especially to tobacco and corn.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of setting something on fire
  • n. the act of discharging a gun
  • n. the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
  • n. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    burning    combustion   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fuel   
    Verb Stem
    fire   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acquiring    admiring    aspiring    conspiring    expiring    hiring    inspiring    perspiring    quiring    rehiring