Definitions for firing
ˈfaɪər ɪŋfir·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fire, firing(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"

2. discharge, firing, firing off(noun)

   the act of discharging a gun

3. ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation(noun)

   the act of setting something on fire

4. dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking(noun)

   the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. firing(Noun)

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

2. firing(Noun)

   The fuel for a fire.

3. firing(Noun)

   The discharge of a gun or other weapon.

4. firing(Noun)

   The dismissal of someone from a job.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Firing(noun)

   the act of disharging firearms

2. Firing(noun)

   the mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it

3. Firing(noun)

   the application of fire, or of a cautery

4. Firing(noun)

   the process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln

5. Firing(noun)

   fuel; firewood or coal

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. firing

   The act of discharging fire-arms.

How to pronounce firing?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of firing in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of firing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of firing in a Sentence

1. Jamshed Khan:

   We were standing outside the school and firing suddenly started and there was chaos everywhere and the screams of children and teachers.

2. Choi Kang:

   Yesterday, Kim was trying to show he is perfectly healthy, and today, Kim is trying to mute all kinds of speculation that he may not have full control over the military, rather than going all the way by firing missiles and supervising a missile launch, Kim could be reminding us, 'yes I'm healthy and I'm still in power'.

3. Ted Cruz:

   Any rational person responds to a change in circumstances. What's changed? We've seen a whole number of employers abusing the program, no. 1, bringing in people who are not high-skilled, bringing in medium- and low-skilled (information technology) workers and then firing American workers and, adding insult to injury, forcing the American workers to train their foreign replacements.

4. Bonnie Glaser of the Center:

   I think this is quite a dangerous situation, there could be firing by the North Koreans, which then could prompt South Koreans to retaliate very quickly.

5. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. Music rap beat: The creak of a door wao wao wao. Wao Wao Tum Tum Tum Wao WaoThe smashing sword of feelings cuts the emptiness of reality that feels the powerlessness of the fighter against fate 2. Music rap beat: Tuk tchak tututu tchak tutu tchak tututu tchak tutu tchak tchak tchak tutu tchak.Memory is a palace of photographs and in each room you can watch a video of memories, this palace is on fire, and new photos fly out of your head that rebuild a new castle. 3. Music rap beat: empty drum sound and beat rhythm house here tuka tu dum tuk tutu tuka house. Fake laughter as a simulated orgasm of optimism. 4. Music: Bowl Sound: woo-woo-beat rhythm: Tu-Ta-Ta-Tu-Tu-Doom Remembering, fears, desires, mysterious entities, all of them are in your hotel subconscious where you are just a doorman. 5. Compass of awareness in the hands of the one who is eating in the elevator of consciousness, awareness in the very top. On the higher floors, they will understand that they have not yet grown to logic, and where logic breaks down and the highest level of thinking begins: infinite love. 6. Thinking is life, the death of thinking and philosophy gives birth to a new form of life in a new dimension of thinking. 7. Instincts are fear, therefore we are still part of the animal world, because of fear we live in a cultural ghetto. Intuition is the courage of conscience in the heart. 8. Love is when it is pleasant to dream and think about your beloved person and to receive sincere pleasure taking care of him. 9. A philosopher is a whirling six-barreled machine gun firing thoughts, ideas into people's souls and bullets never end; a slight evil smile of awareness comes from them; everyone realizes the evil joke of reality. 10. Periodically, the light of the stairs illuminates the corridors of the staircases, everything changes and is illuminated by a beacon of good luck for our lives. 11. Insanely laughing psycheFrom disappointment, the soul cannot stop laughing with a frightening uncontrolled laugh, between fear and uncontrolled angry laughter. The smiling, insanely laughing psyche growls and tears to pieces from the high-voltage psychic tension that gives birth to truth, from a smile the philosophy of the psyche breaks into two parts of the duality of the world. A huge smile is visible in the broken mirror of the psyche, and only sometimes the image of a person is reflected in them as a reflection of conscience. 12. Everyone hurries to their graves. 13. Instincts are terrible toys of the subconscious, there is a toy world that is developed at the expense of all lived lives, they call to have fun at the expense of oneself. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

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