| 单词 | firing |
| 释义 | firing (once / 273 pages) 1n 2n 3n WORD FAMILY firing: firings+/counterfire: counterfires/fiery: fierily, fieriness/fire: counterfire, fiery, fired, fires, firing, misfire/fired: firedest/misfire: misfired, misfires, misfiring USAGE EXAMPLESOther approaches focus on netting drones, either via bigger drones or by guns firing a net and a parachute via compressed gas. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) “But did Doug ever say, ‘Are we firing our coach, are we keeping our coach?’ Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) As the players ran onto the field, they mimed firing machine guns. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy Syn|Hypo|Hyper fire antiaircraft fire firing at enemy aircraft barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shellingthe heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target broadsidethe simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship burst, fusillade, salvo, volleyrapid simultaneous discharge of firearms call firefire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit cover, covering firefire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations concentrated fire, massed firefire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships) counterfirefire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons counterpreparation fireintensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered crossfirefire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross destruction firefire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects direct firefire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it distributed firefire dispersed so as to engage effectively an area target fratricide, friendly firefire that injures or kills an ally hostile firefire that injures or kills an enemy grazing firefire approximately parallel to the ground; the center of the cone of fire does rise above 1 meter from the ground harassing firefire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale indirect firefire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons interdiction firefire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area neutralization firefire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable observed firefire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer; fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations preparation firefire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault radar firegunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar registration firefire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets scheduled fireprearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time searching firefire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun supporting firefire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat suppressive firefire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives unobserved firefire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed artillery fire, cannon firefire delivered by artillery close supporting firefire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it deep supporting firefire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications direct supporting firefire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) counterbattery firefire delivered to neutralize or destroy indirect fire weapon systems counterbombardmentbombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons countermortar firemortar fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons cannonade, drumfireintense and continuous artillery fire high-angle firefire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range mortar fireartillery fire delivered by a mortar zone fireartillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations attack, onrush, onset, onslaught (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) 2n the act of discharging a gun 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper discharge, firing off gun the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies shooting, shot the act of firing a projectile n the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper discharge, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking superannuation the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension) conge, congeean abrupt and unceremonious dismissal removaldismissal from office deactivation, inactivationbreaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) honorable dischargea discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record dishonorable dischargea discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder) Section Eighta discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable purgean abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place conclusion, ending, termination the act of ending something n the act of setting something on fire Syn|Hyper ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting burning, combustion the act of burning something |
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