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Noun firing has 4 senses

• firing(n = noun.act) fire - 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"
is a kind of attack, onrush, onset, onslaught
has particulars: antiaircraft fire, barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling, broadside, burst, fusillade, salvo, volley, call fire, cover, covering fire, concentrated fire, massed fire, counterfire, counterpreparation fire, crossfire, destruction fire, direct fire, distributed fire, fratricide, friendly fire, hostile fire, grazing fire, harassing fire, indirect fire, interdiction fire, neutralization fire, observed fire, preparation fire, radar fire, registration fire, scheduled fire, searching fire, supporting fire, suppressive fire, unobserved fire, artillery fire, cannon fire
Derived form verb fire₁

• firing(n = noun.act) discharge, firing off - the act of discharging a gun; Array
is a kind of shooting, shot
has particulars: gun
Derived form verb fire₂

• firing(n = noun.act) ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting - the act of setting something on fire; Array
is a kind of burning, combustion

• firing(n = noun.act) discharge, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking - the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart); Array
has particulars: superannuation, conge, congee, removal, deactivation, inactivation, honorable discharge, dishonorable discharge, section eight
is a kind of conclusion, ending, termination
Derived form verb fire₄

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firing

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

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Fuel

N fuel, firing, combustible, coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale, turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log, cinder, ingle, tinder, touchwood, sulphur, brimstone, incense, port-fire, fire-barrel, fireball, brand, amadou, bavin, blind coal, glance coal, German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge, solid fueled rocket, wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil, lamp oil, whale oil, oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice, gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha, rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox, natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen, brand, torch, fuse, wick, spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco, linstock, candle, oil, carbonaceous, combustible, inflammable, high octane, high specific impulse, heat of combustion.

Snap

N snap, rapping, decrepitation, crepitation, report, thud, burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley, squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun, implosion, bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms), gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, TNT, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms), whack, wham, pow, rapping, Int, kaboom!, whamo!, Heewhack!, pow!.

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