(n.) The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it.
(n.) The application of fire, or of a cautery.
(n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
(n.) Fuel; firewood or coal.
Example Sentences:
(1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(2) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(4) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
(5) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(6) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(7) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
(8) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(9) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(10) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(11) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(12) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(13) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(14) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(15) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(16) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(17) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.
(18) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(19) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(20) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.
Fusillade
Definition:
(n.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
(v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trying to escape, speaker Mohammed Magariaf's jeep was hit by a fusillade of machine-gun fire.
(2) Fusillades of incensed Times columnists from Finkelstein to Parris have the freedom to write what they believe.
(3) Perhaps the commission of inquiry into the massacre will provide some of the answers as to what prompted the collision of circumstances that led to the now unforgettable images of mineworkers falling into the dust in a fusillade from a wall of heavily armed policemen.
(4) Born in Belgium but now based in Amsterdam, Van Hove talks English at machine-gun pace, words and ideas rat-a-tat-tatting out in a fusillade of enthusiastic emphases.
(5) But if a fusillade of Tweets can make a mockery of the majesty of the law, don't we need fresh international agreements to bring some majesty back?
(6) Yet, to judge by his recent rant in the Daily Mail against "Marxist" professors, his head-butting with the unions and his condescension on Question Time to the shadow attorney general, he clearly revels in letting off fusillades against anyone who disagrees with him on education.
(7) Israel’s defence minister is out , departing not with the polite exchange of letters that would be Westminster custom but a fusillade aimed directly at his former boss.
(8) I wanted [to write] a book, like Jilly Cooper’s Riders , that ‘told all the secrets’ of sex to teenage girls in an as amusing way as possible,” Moran writes when I email her, her enthusiasm for the subject resulting in fusillades of capital letters.
(9) By last year, the fusillade of roles had become unignorable: Bernie , Killer Joe , Mud , Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street , which he stole with a piece of improv designed to get him into character.
(10) More smartphone cameras appeared, thousands of them, firing one last fusillade at the flag during its final hour.
(11) Georges Salines (@GeorgesSalines) Je cherche des nouvelles de ma fille #LolaSalines qui était au #Bataclan pendant la #fusillade .
(12) Any sign of life is greeted by a fusillade of flashes and such erudite questions as "When are you going to say sorry?"
(13) Mr Taleb, the financier and bestselling author, fired off a fusillade of opinions at odds with the touchy-feely Conservatism espoused by his discussant.
(14) These fusillades of self-criticism, you sense, aren't false modesty, nor real terror, but something else: the musings of a veteran who has long since come to terms with the fact that his creative process will always be a long slide into disillusionment.
(15) First came a fusillade from Lieutenant Commander Kris Ward, delivered as the prime minister visited the armed forces operations headquarters in London.
(16) it asserts – and a veritable fusillade of toffees.
(17) Another fusillade of giggles filled the silence as I started again.