'Firing' definitions:
Definition of 'firing'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: fire, firing]
noun
The act of discharging a gun [syn: discharge, firing, firing off]
noun
noun
The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]
Definition of 'Firing'
From: GCIDE
- Firing \Fir"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of discharging firearms. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
- Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'firing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- shoot-out,
- shooting,
- 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
Words containing 'Firing'
- Fire,
- Fired,
- On fire,
- To fire up,
- Under fire,
- fire up,
- firing off,
- Angel Fire,
- Beacon fire,
- Blue fire,
- Council fire,
- Cross fire,
- Death fire,
- Direct fire,
- Dropping fire,
- Elf fire,
- Elmo's fire,
- False fire,
- File firing,
- Fire Island,
- Fire alarm,
- Fire annihilator,
- Fire balloon,
- Fire bar,
- Fire basket,
- Fire beetle,
- Fire blast,
- Fire box,
- Fire brick,
- Fire brigade,
- Fire bucket,
- Fire bug,
- Fire clay,
- Fire company,
- Fire cross,
- Fire damp,
- Fire dog,
- Fire drill,
- Fire eater,
- Fire engine,
- Fire escape,
- Fire gilding,
- Fire gilt,
- Fire insurance,
- Fire irons,
- Fire main,
- Fire master,
- Fire office,
- Fire opal,
- Fire ordeal,
- Fire pan,
- Fire plug,
- Fire policy,
- Fire pot,
- Fire raft,
- Fire roll,
- Fire setting,
- Fire ship,
- Fire shovel,
- Fire stink,
- Fire surface,
- Fire swab,
- Fire teaser,
- Fire tube,
- Fire water,
- Fire worship,
- Firing iron,
- Firing pin,
- Grecian fire,
- Greek fire,
- Green fire,
- Gun fire,
- Heavy fire,
- Horizontal fire,
- Indian fire,
- Knobbling fire,
- Line of fire,
- Night fire,
- Persian fire,
- Plunging fire,
- Red fire,
- Reverse fire,
- Ricochet firing,
- Rolling fire,
- Running fire,
- To bank a fire,
- To bank up a fire,
- To catch fire,
- To hang fire,
- To light a fire,
- To set fire to,
- To set on fire,
- To stand fire,
- To take fire,
- To walk through the fire,
- Vertical fire,
- Watch fire,
- all-fired,
- antiaircraft fire,
- artillery fire,
- back fire,
- ball of fire,
- barrage fire,
- brush fire,
- call fire,
- cannon fire,
- catch fire,
- cease fire,
- concentrated fire,
- counterbattery fire,
- countermortar fire,
- counterpreparation fire,
- covering fire,
- crown fire,
- destruction fire,
- distributed fire,
- electric fire,
- enfilade fire,
- field of fire,
- fire and brimstone,
- fire ant,
- fire bell,
- fire blight,
- fire bush,
- fire chief,
- fire code,
- fire control,
- fire department,
- fire door,
- fire extinguisher,
- fire fighter,
- fire grenade,
- fire hook,
- fire hose,
- fire hydrant,
- fire iron,
- fire marble,
- fire marshal,
- fire marshall,
- fire pink,
- fire pit,
- fire retardant,
- fire salamander,
- fire sale,
- fire screen,
- fire station,
- fire tactics,
- fire thorn,
- fire tongs,
- fire tower,
- fire tree,
- fire trench,
- fire truck,
- fire tubes,
- fire walker,
- fire walking,
- fire warden,
- fire watcher,
- fire watching,
- fire wheel,
- firing chamber,
- firing line,
- firing mechanism,
- firing party,
- firing range,
- firing squad,
- flame of fire,
- forest fire,
- fox fire,
- friendly fire,
- grazing fire,
- ground fire,
- hang fire,
- harassing fire,
- hostile fire,
- indirect fire,
- interdiction fire,
- massed fire,
- mortar fire,
- neutralization fire,
- observed fire,
- open fire,
- play with fire,
- prairie fire,
- preparation fire,
- radar fire,
- reconnaissance by fire,
- registration fire,
- rocket firing,
- scheduled fire,
- searching fire,
- set on fire,
- signal fire,
- supporting fire,
- suppressive fire,
- surface fire,
- take fire,
- unobserved fire,
- zone fire,
- Angel Fire, NM,
- Back-fire,
- Back-firing,
- Fire Island, NY,
- Fire-fanged,
- Fire-new,
- Fire-set,
- Pin-fire,
- Rapid-fire,
- Rapid-firing,
- Rim-fire,
- Saint Anthony's fire,
- Saint Elmo's fire,
- St Anthony's fire,
- St Elmo's fire,
- Steam fire engine,
- Too many irons in the fire,
- cease-fire,
- close supporting fire,
- coal-fired,
- deep supporting fire,
- direct supporting fire,
- european fire salamander,
- fire control radar,
- fire control system,
- fire-bush,
- fire-eater,
- fire-on-the-mountain,
- fire-raising,
- fire-resistant,
- fire-resisting,
- fire-resistive,
- fire-retardant,
- fire-swallower,
- fire-tree,
- fire-wheel,
- fire-worship,
- forest fire fighter,
- mexican fire plant,
- oil-fired,
- quick-fire,
- saint ulmo's fire,
- st. elmo's fire,
- sure-fire,
- wood-fired,
- Center-fire cartridge,
- Rapid-fire mount,
- Rim-fire cartridge,
- Stink-fire lance,
- fire-bellied toad,
- fire-crested wren,
- fire-sale price,
- high-angle fire