Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The process of applying fire or heat, as in the hardening or glazing of ceramics.
  • noun Fuel for fires.
  • noun The act or an instance of dismissing someone from a job.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun Fuel; fire-wood or coal.
  • noun 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.
  • noun The act of discharging firearms.
  • noun The application of fire or of a cautery in surgery and farriery; cauterization.
  • noun 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.
  • noun Same as scorching, 3: applied especially to tobacco and corn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of discharging firearms.
  • noun The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
  • noun The application of fire, or of a cautery.
  • noun The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
  • noun obsolete Fuel; firewood or coal.
  • noun an instrument used in cauterizing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
  • noun The fuel for a fire.
  • noun The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
  • noun The dismissal of someone from a job.
  • verb Present participle of fire.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of setting something on fire
  • noun the act of discharging a gun
  • noun the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
  • noun the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

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Examples

  • If this period between the time of firing and the maximum temperature reported was exactly one minute, the radiation through this period would equal the radiation per one-half minute _before firing_ plus the radiation per one-half minute _after the maximum temperature is reached_; or, the radiation through the one minute interval would be the average of the radiation per minute before firing and the radiation per minute after the maximum.

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  • The Walpin firing is hard to figure out: there are a lot of conflicting stories, including many people who say he was doing a bad job and was impossible to deal with; he also has his defenders.

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  • The North has declared what it calls a firing zone in disputed waters off its west coast.

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2009 2009

  • That emergency Mission Control would be located in what they call the firing room, which is where they launch the space shuttles from.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2007 2007

  • RON.N.CORCRON., U.N. OBSERVER: Yesterday, throughout the day, we had a number of what we terms firing close.

    CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2006 2006

  • The ideal trench would be about six by seven feet deep with what they call firing steps so that the men could move in the trench without having their head blown off but when they had to fight, they would step up on the step.

    A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front 2002

  • High-speed protons - the direction of the firing is here more important than the speed setting - are allowed to collide with a motionless target area of beryllium.

    Press Release: The 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics 1976

  • Israel has committed the genocide on the Gaza strip using its air power and land forces against a virtually unarmed population to stop what it called firing of rockets by Hamas that controls the area.

    The New Nation 2009

  • Cap continues to be the definition of a title firing on all cylinders.

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  • I don't consider what you describe as firing friends since the relationships you describe fall far short of my definition of friendship.

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