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FIRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having lost your job
Synonyms:
discharged; dismissed; fired; laid-off; pink-slipped
Classified under:
Similar:
unemployed (not engaged in a gainful occupation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fire
Context examples:
They had imagined, that I was lost in the woods, and had fired this shot to guide me home.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He fired rapidly, six times, and six of the pack lay dead or dying—another manifestation of power that sank deep into White Fang's consciousness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"A stunning blow from the big Greek lexicon, which an old fellow in a black gown fired at him," said Ned.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Juno's visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system.
(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)
In MALDI-TOF, a laser pulse is fired into a protein or peptide sample contained in a light-absorbing matrix.
(Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
Analyses suggest children who saw the movie containing guns also played more aggressively and sometimes fired the gun at people.
(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Electrical recordings showed that some of these cells fired when a bar of light passed across the retina from left to right, whereas others responded to light crossing in the opposite direction.
(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)
The damp straw of the mattress, fired from beneath and denied air, had been smouldering all the while.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A gun is fired somewhere; the echo of it seems far away.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In agreement with previous studies, the researchers found that a majority (52.8%) of hypothalamic MCH cells fired when mice underwent REM sleep whereas about 35% fired only when the mice were awake and about 12% fired at both times.
(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)
