firing
IPA: fˈaɪrɪŋ
noun
- (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- The fuel for a fire.
- The act of adding fuel to a fire.
- The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
- The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
- Cauterization.
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Examples of "firing" in Sentences
- Cap continues to be the definition of a title firing on all cylinders.
- The North has declared what it calls a firing zone in disputed waters off its west coast.
- RON.N.CORCRON., U.N. OBSERVER: Yesterday, throughout the day, we had a number of what we terms firing close.
- That emergency Mission Control would be located in what they call the firing room, which is where they launch the space shuttles from.
- I don't consider what you describe as firing friends since the relationships you describe fall far short of my definition of friendship.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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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