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firing
(mass) | firing
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firing
(encz) | firing,pálení n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing
(encz) | firing,střelba n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing
(encz) | firing,střílení n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing
(encz) | firing,topení n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing
(encz) | firing,vypalování n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing
(encz) | firing,zapalování n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing
(encz) | firing,zážeh n: Zdeněk Brož |
Firing
(gcide) | Firing \Fir"ing\, n.
1. The act of discharging firearms.
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2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working
it. --Knight.
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3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison.
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4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to
intense heat in a kiln.
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5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.
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firing
(wn) | firing
n 1: 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" [syn:
fire, firing]
2: the act of discharging a gun [syn: discharge, firing,
firing off]
3: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition,
firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
4: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to
depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge,
firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking] |
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backfiring
(encz) | backfiring,selhávání n: Zdeněk Brož |
firing chamber
(encz) | firing chamber, n: |
firing line
(encz) | firing line,palebná linie Zdeněk Brožfiring line,první linie Zdeněk Brož |
firing mechanism
(encz) | firing mechanism, n: |
firing off
(encz) | firing off, n: |
firing party
(encz) | firing party, n: |
firing pin
(encz) | firing pin, n: |
firing range
(encz) | firing range, n: |
firing squad
(encz) | firing squad,popravčí četa n: Zdeněk Brož |
gun firing
(encz) | gun firing,palba n: josegun firing,střelba n: jose |
rocket firing
(encz) | rocket firing, n: |
Back-firing
(gcide) | Backfire \Back"fire`\ Back-fire \Back"-fire`\, v. i.
1. (Engin.) To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
-- said of an internal-combustion engine.
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2. Of a Bunsen or similar air-fed burner, to light so that
the flame proceeds from the internal gas jet instead of
from the external jet of mixed gas and air. --
Back"-fir`ing, n.
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File firing
(gcide) | File \File\ (f[imac]l), n. [F. file row (cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., &
It. fila), LL. fila, fr. L. filum a thread. Cf. Enfilade,
Filament, Fillet.]
1. An orderly succession; a line; a row; as:
(a)
(Mil.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in
contradistinction to rank, which designates a row
of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting
the depth of a body of troops, which, in the
ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the
battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
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Note: The number of files in a company describes its width,
as the number of ranks does its depth; thus, 100 men in
"fours deep" would be spoken of as 25 files in 4 ranks.
--Farrow.
(b) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence
or classified for preservation and reference; as,
files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings
English files to the 15th instant.
(c) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers
are put and kept in order.
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It is upon a file with the duke's other letters.
--Shak.
(d) A roll or list. "A file of all the gentry." --Shak.
2. Course of thought; thread of narration. [Obs.]
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Let me resume the file of my narration. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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3. (computers) a collection of data on a digital recording
medium treated as a unit for the purpose of recording,
reading, storage, or indexing; -- such a file is typically
accessible by computer programs by the use of a file name.
The data may be of any type codable digitally, such as
simple ASCII-coded text, complex binary-coded data, or an
executable program, or may be itself a collection of other
files.
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File firing, the act of firing by file, or each file
independently of others.
File leader, the soldier at the front of any file, who
covers and leads those in rear of him.
File marching, the marching of a line two deep, when faced
to the right or left, so that the front and rear rank
march side by side. --Brande & C.
Indian file, or Single file, a line of people marching
one behind another; a single row. Also used adverbially;
as, to march Indian file.
On file, preserved in an orderly collection; recorded in
some database.
Rank and file.
(a) The body of soldiers constituting the mass of an army,
including corporals and privates. --Wilhelm.
(b) Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a
party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders.
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Firing
(gcide) | Firing \Fir"ing\, n.
1. The act of discharging firearms.
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2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working
it. --Knight.
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3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison.
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4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to
intense heat in a kiln.
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5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.
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Firing iron
(gcide) | Firing \Fir"ing\, n.
1. The act of discharging firearms.
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2. The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working
it. --Knight.
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3. The application of fire, or of a cautery. --Dunglison.
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4. The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to
intense heat in a kiln.
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5. Fuel; firewood or coal. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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Firing iron, an instrument used in cauterizing.
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Firing pin
(gcide) | Firing pin \Fir"ing pin`\
In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes
the head of the cartridge and explodes it.
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Rapid-firing
(gcide) | Rapid-fire \Rap"id-fire`\, Rapid-firing \Rap"id-fir`ing\, a.
(a) (Gun.) Firing shots in rapid succession.
(b) (Ordnance) Capable of being fired rapidly; -- applied to
single-barreled guns of greater caliber than small arms,
mounted so as to be quickly trained and elevated, with a
quick-acting breech mechanism operated by a single motion
of a crank or lever (abbr. R. F.); specif.: (1) In the
United States navy, designating such a gun using fixed
ammunition or metallic cartridge cases; -- distinguished
from breech-loading (abbr. B. L.), applied to all guns
loading with the charge in bags, and formerly from
quick-fire. Rapid-fire guns in the navy also sometimes
include automatic or semiautomatic rapid-fire guns; the
former being automatic guns of not less than one inch
caliber, firing a shell of not less than one pound
weight, the explosion of each cartridge operating the
mechanism for ejecting the empty shell, loading, and
firing the next shot, the latter being guns that require
one operation of the hand at each discharge, to load the
gun. (2) In the United States army, designating such a
gun, whether using fixed or separate ammunition, designed
chiefly for use in coast batteries against torpedo
vessels and the lightly armored batteries or other war
vessels and for the protection of defensive mine fields;
-- not distinguished from quick-fire. (3) In Great
Britain and Europe used, rarely, as synonymous with
quick-fire.
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Ricochet firing
(gcide) | Ricochet \Ric`o*chet"\, n. [F.]
1. A rebound or skipping, as of a bullet bouncing off a hard
surface, or off the ground when a gun is fired at a low
angle of elevation, or of a flat stone thrown along the
surface of water.
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2. A peculiar gait used by certain animals such as the
kangaroo who move by a type of bouncing motion.
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Kangaroos and wallabies (macropodids) as well as
kangaroo mice and jerboas, locate themselves
differently, though, and do not use the forelimbs at
all in their distinctive modus locatus, to which
Muybridge applied the term "ricochet", . . . --Jaime
A. Headden
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Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers,
usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few
degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or
skip along the ground.
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firing chamber
(wn) | firing chamber
n 1: chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge
[syn: firing chamber, gun chamber] |
firing line
(wn) | firing line
n 1: the line from which soldiers deliver fire
2: the most advanced and responsible group in an activity; "the
firing line is where the action is" |
firing mechanism
(wn) | firing mechanism
n 1: the action that ignites the charge in a firearm [syn:
gunlock, firing mechanism] |
firing off
(wn) | firing off
n 1: the act of discharging a gun [syn: discharge, firing,
firing off] |
firing party
(wn) | firing party
n 1: a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to
carry out a military execution [syn: firing squad,
firing party] |
firing pin
(wn) | firing pin
n 1: striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer |
firing range
(wn) | firing range
n 1: a practice range for target practice [syn: firing range,
target range] |
firing squad
(wn) | firing squad
n 1: a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to
carry out a military execution [syn: firing squad,
firing party] |
rocket firing
(wn) | rocket firing
n 1: the launching of a rocket or missile under its own power
[syn: rocket firing, rocket launching] |
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