firing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fir=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

firing, n. 

•  The act of discharging firearms.  [1913 Webster]
•  The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
•  The application of fire, or of a cautery.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fuel; firewood or coal.  Mortimer.  [1913 Webster]

Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

firing, n.
1 the discharging of guns.
2 material for a fire, fuel.
3 the heating process which hardens clay into pottery etc.

Idiom

firing-line
1 the front line in a battle.
2 the leading part in an activity etc. firing-party a group detailed to fire the salute at a military funeral.
firing-squad
1 a group detailed to shoot a condemned person.
2 a firing-party. firing-step a step on which soldiers in a trench stand to fire.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

firing

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!.