fired
被解雇,被解雇的,被解雇了,被炒鱿鱿
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Definitions
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- : a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- : a burning mass of material, as on a hearth or in a furnace.
- : the destructive burning of a building, town, forest, etc.; conflagration.
- : heat used for cooking, especially the lighted burner of a stove: Put the kettle on the fire.
- : Greek fire.
- : flashing light; luminous appearance.
- : brilliance, as of a gem.
- : burning passion; excitement or enthusiasm; ardor.
- : liveliness of imagination.
- : fever or inflammation.
- : severe trial or trouble; ordeal.
- : exposure to fire as a means of torture or ordeal.
- : strength, as of an alcoholic beverage.
- : a spark or sparks.
- : the discharge of firearms: enemy fire.
- : the effect of firing military weapons: to pour fire upon the enemy.
- : British. a gas or electric heater used for heating a room.
- : Literary. a luminous object, as a star: heavenly fires.
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fired, fir·ing.
- : to set on fire.
- : to supply with fuel or attend to the fire of:They fired the boiler.
- : to expose to the action of fire; subject to heat.
- : to apply heat to in a kiln for baking or glazing; burn.
- : to heat very slowly for the purpose of drying, as tea.
- : to inflame, as with passion; fill with ardor.
- : to inspire.
- : to light or cause to glow as if on fire.
- : to discharge.
- : to project by or as if by discharging from a gun.
- : to subject to explosion or explosive force, as a mine.
- : to cause to start working: I just fired up my new laptop.
- : to hurl; throw: to fire a stone through a window.
- : to dismiss from a job.
- : Veterinary Medicine. to apply a heated iron to in order to create a local inflammation of the superficial structures, with the intention of favorably affecting deeper inflammatory processes.
- : to drive out or away by or as by fire.
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fired, fir·ing.
- : to take fire; be kindled.
- : to glow as if on fire.
- : to become inflamed with passion; become excited.
- : to shoot, as a gun.
- : to discharge a gun: to fire at a fleeing enemy.
- : to hurl a projectile.
- : Music. to ring the bells of a chime all at once.
- : to turn yellow or brown before the plant matures.
- : to cause ignition of the air-fuel mixture in a cylinder or cylinders.
- : to discharge an electric impulse.
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- : Slang. cool, excellent, exciting, etc.: It would be so fire if we won those tickets!
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- : fire away, Informal. to begin to talk and continue without slackening, as to ask a series of questions: The reporters fired away at the president.
- : fire off, to discharge: Police fired off canisters of tear gas.to write and send hurriedly: She fired off an angry letter to her congressman.
Phrases
- fire away
- fire off
- fire on all cylinders
- fire up
- add fuel to the fire
- ball of fire
- baptism of fire
- catch fire
- caught in the cross-fire
- draw fire
- fat is in the fire
- fight fire with fire
- get on (like a house afire)
- hang fire
- hold one's fire
- hold someone's feet to the fire
- irons in the fire
- light a fire under
- line of fire
- miss fire
- no smoke without fire
- on fire
- open fire
- out of the frying pan into the fire
- play with fire
- set on fire
- set the world on fire
- spread like wildfire
- trial by fire
- under fire
- where's the fire
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Examples
In a recent mapping project, researchers at Arizona State University and the University of California, Los Angeles found that debris flow risk in areas that experience fires will generally increase as climate change progresses.
The number of days with extreme fire risk conditions across California could increase by more than 50% toward the end of the century under a scenario in which global emissions peak around 2050 and decline thereafter, according to one recent study.
The official death toll for the entire fire is now 35 people, and the high-speed winds that are fueling the fires are expected to continue in the following days.
Choking smoke from hundreds of fires, several of the largest ever to hit the west coast, stretched from Seattle to Mexico.
On the same day, Aguila Saleh, the speaker of an eastern Parliament aligned with the general, also called for a cease-fire.
A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.
One of the other cops fired three times and those who were still able to give chase did.
The cops gave chase and the gunman fired the big revolver twice more.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
Knight and Farrell were both fired from the New Orleans Police Department before they gravitated to Duke.
Before we had all fired, Fanning and a dozen of his sharpest men had again loaded, and were by our side.
The men, whose poniards his sword parried, had recourse to fire-arms, and two pistols were fired at him.
The next moment a pistol was fired at their head, and a deep groan shewed it had taken too true an aim.
At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
To-day I have stood in the main battery which has fired a shot establishing, in its way, a record in the annals of destruction.