verb
- Burst inward.
- usage: "The bottle imploded"
- synonyms: go off
Implode and Fire
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- (v.t.) To cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire cannon balls, rockets, etc.
- (n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
- (v.t.) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- (n.) Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
- (v.t.) To subject to intense heat; to bake; to burn in a kiln; as, to fire pottery.
- (n.) Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
- (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
- (v.t.) To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.
- (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth or in a stove or a furnace.
- (v.t.) To drive by fire.
- (v.i.) To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.
- (n.) The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire.
- (n.) Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
- (v.t.) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions; as, to fire the soul with anger, pride or revenge.
- (v.t.) To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
- (v.i.) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
- (n.) Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth; consuming violence of temper.
- (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
- (v.t.) To feed or serve the fire of; as, to fire a boiler.
- (v.i.) To discharge artillery or firearms; as, they fired on the town.
- (v.t.) To cauterize.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- The event of something burning (often destructive. )
- usage: "they lost everything in the fire"
- The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy.
- usage: "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
- synonyms: firing
- The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
- usage: "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
- A fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning.
- usage: "they sat by the fire and talked"
- Once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles. )
- Feelings of great warmth and intensity.
- usage: "he spoke with great ardor"
- Fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking.
- usage: "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"
- A severe trial.
- usage: "he went through fire and damnation"
- Intense adverse criticism.
- usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
verb
- Start firing a weapon.
- synonyms: open fire
- Cause to go off.
- usage: "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- synonyms: discharge
- Bake in a kiln so as to harden.
- usage: "fire pottery"
- Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
- usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: displace, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
- Go off or discharge.
- usage: "The gun fired"
- Drive out or away by or as if by fire.
- usage: "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses. )
- usage: "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- Destroy by fire.
- usage: "They burned the house and his diaries"
- Provide with fuel.
- usage: "Oil fires the furnace"
- synonyms: fuel
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(verb) In expert system programming, ordinarily used to describe the "triggering" or "activation" of a rule. A rule is "Fired" "triggered" or "activated" when its conditions have been met, and its "consequents" (resultant facts) are added to the knowledge base.