"firing" meaning in English

See firing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-firing.ogg Forms: firings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, fire + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|fire|-ing}} By surface analysis, fire + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} firing (countable and uncountable, plural firings)
  1. (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Ceramics Translations (process of applying heat or fire): изпичане (izpičane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), polttaminen (Finnish), poltto (Finnish), Brennen [neuter] (German), Brennung [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-firing-en-noun-auG-ExEV Topics: ceramics, chemistry, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'process of applying heat or fire': 78 11 9 0 0 1
  2. The fuel for a fire. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (fuel): топливо (toplivo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), Brennstoff [masculine] (German), bränsle [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-firing-en-noun-rZpcs4NZ Disambiguation of 'fuel': 4 52 41 0 1 2
  3. The act of adding fuel to a fire. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-firing-en-noun-JeQt9zr3
  4. The discharge of a gun or other weapon. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (discharge): стрелба (strelba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), geschiet [neuter] (Dutch), pafado (Esperanto), ampuminen (Finnish), laukaisu (Finnish), Schussabgabe [feminine] (German), pafado (Ido), lámhach [masculine] (Irish), атыш (atış) (Karachay-Balkar), avfyrning [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-firing-en-noun-P9uOGXbz Disambiguation of 'discharge': 0 0 0 100 0 0
  5. The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (dismissal): уволнение (uvolnenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), comiat [masculine] (Catalan), irtisanominen (Finnish), erottaminen (Finnish), renvoi (French), Entlassung [feminine] (German), concediere [feminine] (Romanian), avsked [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-firing-en-noun-85CDWlkz Disambiguation of 'dismissal': 2 2 1 0 89 5
  6. Cauterization. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-firing-en-noun-MAJ4oKzm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Karachay-Balkar translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 2 2 1 5 68 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 12 13 11 2 5 50 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 4 3 1 2 78 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 4 3 1 5 68 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 3 2 1 1 77 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 9 4 3 2 6 70 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 9 4 4 2 4 73 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 9 6 5 2 2 67 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 8 4 4 2 2 75 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 4 4 2 4 70 6 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 8 5 4 2 3 71 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 9 5 4 2 3 72 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 8 3 3 2 2 77 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 10 4 4 2 4 70 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Karachay-Balkar translations: 8 3 3 2 2 78 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 10 4 4 2 4 70 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 9 3 3 2 3 75 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-firing.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ Etymology: By surface analysis, fire + -ing. Etymology templates: {{surf|en|fire|-ing}} By surface analysis, fire + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} firing
  1. present participle and gerund of fire Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: fire
    Sense id: en-firing-en-verb-OWgwKtCn

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Downstairs there was a kitchen common to all lodgers, with free firing and a supply of cooking-pots, tea-basins, and toasting-forks.",
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          "ref": "1945 July and August, “Notes and News: \"A Nice Day's Work\"”, in Railway Magazine, page 235:",
          "text": "One driver told him that a fireman who did not know the route might easily go \"over the side\" between Corby and Harringworth, unless warned beforehand of the reverse curves; he himself, in his firing days, used to try so to plan his firing that it was unnecessary to add any more coal while passing over this stretch at speed.",
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          "ref": "1961 February, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 109:",
          "text": "The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls.",
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          "ref": "1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 308:",
          "text": "[…] they fir’d several Times, making other Signals for the Boat. At last, when all their Signals and Firings prov’d fruitless, and they found the Boat did not stir, we saw them by the Help of my Glasses, hoist another Boat out, and row towards the Shore […]",
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          "ref": "1940, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 43, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, page 417:",
          "text": "He heard the firing and as he walked he felt it in the pit of his stomach as though it echoed on his own diaphragm.",
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          "ref": "2016 July 19, Matthew d’Ancona, “Theresa May’s Shock Therapy”, in The New York Times:",
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          "ref": "1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:",
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          "ref": "1945 July and August, “Notes and News: \"A Nice Day's Work\"”, in Railway Magazine, page 235:",
          "text": "One driver told him that a fireman who did not know the route might easily go \"over the side\" between Corby and Harringworth, unless warned beforehand of the reverse curves; he himself, in his firing days, used to try so to plan his firing that it was unnecessary to add any more coal while passing over this stretch at speed.",
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          "ref": "1961 February, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 109:",
          "text": "The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls.",
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          "text": "[…] they fir’d several Times, making other Signals for the Boat. At last, when all their Signals and Firings prov’d fruitless, and they found the Boat did not stir, we saw them by the Help of my Glasses, hoist another Boat out, and row towards the Shore […]",
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