What does firing mean?

Definitions for firing
ˈfaɪər ɪŋfir·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fire, firingnoun

    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 offnoun

    the act of discharging a gun

  3. ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammationnoun

    the act of setting something on fire

  4. dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sackingnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. firingnoun

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

  2. firingnoun

    The fuel for a fire.

  3. firingnoun

    The discharge of a gun or other weapon.

  4. firingnoun

    The dismissal of someone from a job.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Firingnoun

    Fewel.

    Etymology: from fire.

    They burn the cakes, firing being there scarce. John Mortimer.

Wikipedia

  1. Firing

    Dismissal (also called firing) is the termination of employment by an employer against the will of the employee. Though such a decision can be made by an employer for a variety of reasons, ranging from an economic downturn to performance-related problems on the part of the employee, being fired has a strong stigma in some cultures. To be dismissed, as opposed to quitting voluntarily (or being laid off), is often perceived as being the employee's fault. Finding new employment may often be difficult after being fired, particularly if there is a history of being terminated from a previous job, if the reason for firing is for some serious infraction, or the employee did not keep the job very long. Job seekers will often not mention jobs that they were fired from on their resumes; accordingly, unexplained gaps in employment are often regarded as a red flag.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Firingnoun

    the act of disharging firearms

  2. Firingnoun

    the mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it

  3. Firingnoun

    the application of fire, or of a cautery

  4. Firingnoun

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

  5. Firingnoun

    fuel; firewood or coal

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. firing

    The act of discharging fire-arms.

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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. Mark Hertling:

    You see that force, that small squad there of about 10 guys, the guy up furthest away from us is repeatedly firing rocket-propelled grenades, he's fired by my count about five of them, he is handing off the launcher to another guy, they are reloading and he is ready to shoot again, and everybody else, Mark Hertling look at the cool, calm, collected approach by these soldiers under fire, they're not afraid, they're ready to kick some butt.

  2. Robert McCulloch:

    He has acknowledged his participation in firing the shots.

  3. Mark Regev:

    They were firing thousands of rockets on our civilian population. They were trying to murder our people in their homes. We were defending ourselves, they were firing out of schools. They were firing out of built-up areas. They were firing out of homes, out of mosques, even out of playgrounds.

  4. Hawsar Wshyar Mohammed Amin:

    The firing came from the KDP.

  5. La Torre:

    Everything seemed to be normal while I was driving back, but then I heard gun shots again, they sounded a lot closer. I began to realize the soldiers were following me. I thought they were following the truck that I had seen speeding. I think they got confused and thought my truck was the one they were first chasing. They started firing at us.

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