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Definition: Firing |
FiringNoun1. The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire". 2. The act of discharging a gun. 3. The act of starting a fire. 4. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "firing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. The action or event of igniting a rocket engine.2. The action or event of launching a rocket. (references) |
Computing | The act of performing the operation indicated by the name within the nodes of a dataflow graph, i. e. applying its operator to its operand; also said of rules:act of performing the action specified by the THEN position, when the IF position of the rule is satisfied by the facts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The establishment of current in the conducting direction in a valve or arm by control action. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The ionisation of the blocking tube caused by incident radio frequency power. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | Heat treatment of a shaped refractory material to produce mechanical strength and other necessary properties. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The process of initiating the action of an explosive charge or the operation of a mechanism which results in a blasting action. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. The igniting of an explosive charge. b. Starting up a furnace or kiln. c. The process of initiating the action of an explosive charge or theoperation of a mechanism that results in a blasting action. (references) | |
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Synonyms: FiringSynonyms: discharge (n), dismissal (n), dismission (n), fire (n), firing off (n), ignition (n), kindling (n), liberation (n), lighting (n), release (n), sack (n), sacking (n). (additional references) |
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Fuel | Noun: fuel, firing, combustible. |
Punishment | Capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging;Verb: electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines; decapitation, decollation; garrotte, garrotto; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe; noyade; happy dispatch. |
Be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning; face the firing squad. | |
Scourge | Scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate. |
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Screenplays | Then don't let a little thing like me firing you stand in your way. (What Women Want; writing credit: Josh Goldsmith; Cathy Yuspa) I just think all elementary schools should have a firing range (S1m0ne; writing credit: Andrew Niccol) They're firing at us (Independence Day; writing credit: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich) You're firing me (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) And i want this wall 9 feet high, firing steps on the inside, form details to clear away the Zulu bodies, rebuild the south rampart, keep 'em moving (Zulu; writing credit: John Prebble;) | |
Clever | Without the firing pin, the Grenade is not our friend. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Firing Line (1966) Out of the Frying Pan Into the Firing Line (1942) The Firing Line (1919) | |
Song Titles | Firing The Surgeon General (performing artist: The Foremen) | |
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 | Static Test Firing DM-2 for Solid Rocket Booster. Credit: NASA. |  | Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) Test Firing. Credit: NASA. |
 | Shuttle Main Engine Firing in Gimbal Test. Credit: NASA. |  | Firing Room #2 During Apollo 12 CDDT. Credit: NASA. |
 | Agena Firing. Credit: NASA. |  | Apollo 10 Firing Room 3. Credit: NASA. |
 | Diagram of sound ranging coverage with artillery firing possibilities Image from the 8th FAOB Album. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | ESSA B-57 N1005 firing up the engines. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Firing the harpoon. In: "From the Surface to the Bottom of the Sea" by H. Bouree, 1912, Fig. 84. P. 94. Library Call Number 525.8 B77. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Firing range. |
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 | Video game firing sounds. | | Firing of a laser gun; phaser fire;. |
| Pneumatic nail gun firing a nail into wood . | ||
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot, and Germany might be powerful, prosperous and honored to-day; but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The two pieces were now firing balls upon the centre of the wall, in order to make a hole, and if it were possible, a breach for the assault |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case |
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Health | One-time exposure, such as the sound of a gun firing at close range, can harm your ears permanently. (references) | |
Scientists continue to study how excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters interact with brain cells to control nerve firing. (references) | ||
The nicotine in cigarettes acts on receptors for the excitatory neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brain, which increases neuronal firing. (references) | ||
Business | Despite huge overcapacity, every public health institution is required to have at least 1.5 medical staff per bed. Although the autonomy of hospitals and clinics has slowly increased since the Deng era, they still have little influence over the hiring and firing of personnel and until recently, no control over most prices. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Macedonia | The NLA used religious sites--both Orthodox and Muslim--as military bases and firing positions, in an attempt to deter security forces from attacking. (references) |
Togo | Although it is not necessary to be an accredited journalist to publish an editorial or opinion article, the Government may take reprisals if offended by published material, such as arresting or detaining the writer, or firing a civil servant. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | The state-supported Council on Religious Affairs (CRA) is part of the government bureaucracy and appears to exercise direct control over the hiring, promotion, and firing of both Sunni Muslim and Russian Orthodox clergy, despite the fact that this role is not listed among the CRA's duties in the Law on Religion. (references) | |
Economic History | Belgium | Firing a Belgian employee can be very expensive. (references) |
Morocco | Labor law makes firing workers for cause cumbersome. (references) | |
Panama | Firing practices are excessively regulated which reduces labor mobility and inhibits hiring. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | Many were shot by firing squads in public view. (references) |
Georgia | It was unclear who was responsible for firing the missile at year's end. (references) | |
South Africa | The police responded by firing at the residents, and shots also were fired at police officers. (references) | |
Minorities | Switzerland | In October a court in Bern convicted two skinheads in their early 20's and sentenced them to 5 years in prison for firing fired 110 shots at an alternative youth center. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Widespread firing of ethnic minorities during and after the war has not been reversed in most cases, and members of the ethnic majority in a region often are hired over former employees who are minorities. (references) | |
Poland | The firing followed the unsuccessful prosecution of Ratajczak in December 1999 for violating the law on the preservation of national remembrance, a provision of which criminalizes public denials of Nazi and Communist-era crimes. (references) | |
Political Economy | Georgia | President Shevardnadze's November 1 firing of the Government of Georgia has reignited debate on the implementation of a new system. (references) |
Women | Russia | There also is a trend toward firing women rather than men when employees are laid off. (references) |
Portugal | If CITE finds that the employee's legal rights were violated, the employer must reinstate the worker and pay double back pay and benefits for the time at work missed due to the wrongful firing. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Iceland | Firing workers who report unsafe or unhealthy conditions is illegal. (references) |
Tajikistan | The law compels an employer found guilty of firing an employee based on union activity to reinstate the employee. (references) | |
Togo | The EPZ law provides exemptions from some provisions of the Labor Code, notably the regulations on hiring and firing. (references) | |
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Bob Newhart | Our voyage has received a lot of coverage in the newspaper, and I'd like to present our side of it. I think our firing on Miami Beach can best be termed ill-timed. |
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| "Firing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.51% of the time. "Firing" is used about 701 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 72.51% | 508 | 11,908 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.1% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.82% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 701 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "firing": back firing ♦ captive firing ♦ check firing ♦ combination firing circuit ♦ demolition firing party ♦ dry pulverised fuel firing ♦ dual firing circuit ♦ execute by firing squad ♦ face the firing squad ♦ File firing ♦ firing area ♦ firing chamber ♦ firing circuit ♦ firing ground ♦ Firing iron ♦ firing line ♦ firing mechanism ♦ firing off ♦ firing order ♦ firing party ♦ firing pin ♦ firing point ♦ firing position ♦ firing preparation ♦ firing range ♦ firing squad ♦ firing system ♦ flight readiness firing ♦ give the signal for firing ♦ independent firing ♦ live firing ♦ prone firing ♦ pulverised fuel firing with dry ash removal ♦ pulverised fuel firing with slagging ash removal ♦ rapid firing ♦ ricochet firing ♦ rocket firing ♦ slag tap firing ♦ visual mine firing indicator. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "firing": firing-field, firing-line, firing-plate, firing-point, firing-practice, firing-pulse, firing-squad, firing-step, firing-up. | |
Ending with "firing": quick-firing. | |
Containing "firing": quick-firing gun. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "firing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beskieting. (various references) | |
Albanian | qitje (discharge, gunning, gunshot, shoot, shooting, shot), ndezje (fire wood, fire-lighter, flashing, ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting), lëshim i raketës, batare (cannonade, salvo, shooting, volley). (various references) | |
Arabic | حطب (chop, firewood, hew, log, wood), حرق (singe), خبز الخزف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стреляне (gunning), стрелба (field sports, fire, gunning, shoot, shooting, shot), гориво (combustibles, fuel, fuelling), отопление (heating), запалване на фитил, печене (baking, burn, burning, roast, roasting), палене, дамгосване. (various references) | |
Chinese | 升火 (stoke, Stokes). (various references) | |
Czech | firma (business, company, enterprise, establishment, firm, house, sign), vzplanutí (catching fire, eruption, flare, outburst), střelba (fire, shooting), podnik (business, company, concern, enterprise, establishment, factory, gala, joint, office, operation), palba (fire). (various references) | |
Danish | fyring (stoking), tænding (ignition, initiation), pasning af fyr (stoking), initiering (initiation), braending (baking, breakers, burning, groundswell, stoving, surf), affyre (discharge, fire, fire off). (various references) | |
Dutch | vuren (fire, shoot). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pafado. (various references) | |
Finnish | sytytys (ignition), sytyttäminen, suoritus (achievement, payment, performance, settlement). (various references) | |
French | tir, cuisson. (various references) | |
German | Zünden (burn, catch, catch fire, catch light, detonate, fire, flash on, ignite, kindle, kindle enthusiasm, let off, light, set alight, set off, strike, take fire, to ignite), Feuerung (heating), zündung (burn, detonator, ignition), Heizung (heat, heater, heating, radiator), brennen (bake, be alight, be on, be on fire, be sore, be sparked off, blaze, brand, burn, burned, burnt, catch, cauterization, distill, fire, glow, glow with heat, hurt, kindle, prick, scorch, sear, sere, smart, sting, tingle, to be on fire, to burn). (various references) | |
Greek | έναυση (initiation, priming), πυροδότηση (ignition), εκπυρσοκρότηση (detonation), επίβλεψη και τροφοδοσία της πυράς (stoking), ανάφλεξη (blaze, combustion, ignition, inflammation), ψήσιμο (roasting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "סק" (heating). (various references) | |
Hungarian | égetés (burning, calcination), tüzelés (fire, shooting), tüzelőanyag (fuel), tűz (kick, light, pyro, snap, stuck, to bill, to pin, to prick, to stick, to stitch, to zap), robbantás (blast, blasting, explosion, flying), kiégetés (baking, burn, burnout, curing), kauterizálás, gyújtás (ignition, lighting), fűtés (heater), fűtőanyag (fuel), elsülés (discharge). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pendaulatan (dismissal, ousting), pencopotan (dismissal). (various references) | |
Italian | accensione (at the opening, ignition, kindling, lighting, opening). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 発 (discharge of gun). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おはらいば" (discarding), くびきり (decapitation, dismissal, execution), しゃ'き (fire, gunshot, marksmanship, shooting), しょうせい (a laugh, a minor success, bead or front sight of a firearm, calling together, commander, ego, invitation, laughter, sound of a bell), はっしゃ (catapult, departure of a vehicle, discharge, shooting), はっぽう (all sides, discharge of gun, foaming), はっか (ignition, mint, White Peril)). (various references) | |
Korean | 발포. (various references) | |
Manx | lhiggey (act, act pretend, allow, broach, delay, discharge, fire, go off, heave, ignore, let, let down, let off, letting, level, loose, permission, permit, pierce, remission, shoot, shoot up, shooting, slip, suffer, water pipe). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tenning (ignition), skyting, avfyring. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iringfay.(various references) | |
Polish | strzelanina. (various references) | |
Portuguese | acendimento. (various references) | |
Romanian | foc (affliction, Ardor, ardour, arson, blaze, bonfire, brunt, conflagration, discharge, fire, glow, grief, heat, ingle, jib, light, round, shot, spirit), lemne, combustibil (combustible, fuel), bombardament (bombardment), aprindere (anger, Ardor, ardour, exaltation, fire, fury, ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting). (various references) | |
Russian | стрельба (fire, gunning, shooting, shootings), стрелять запуск, отопление (heating), отпалка (blasting), паление шпуров. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pucanje (scoring, shooting, shot), puškaranje (fusillade, gunning). (various references) | |
Spanish | poner en juego (bring into play, turn on), encendido (ablaze, afire, aglow, alight, fired, flaming, flaring, glowing, ignition, lighted, lighting, live, on, switching on, turn on), encender (burn, fire, ignite, illuminate, inflame, kindle, light, light up, lighter, put on, set light to, switch on, turn on), disparo (gunshot, release, shooting, shot, trip), disparar (discharge, fire, gun, let off, loose off, play on, release, shoot), conducción del fuego (stoking), coccion (roasting), caldeo, acción de disparar. (various references) | |
Swedish | tändning (ignition), skjutning (shooting), skjutande, ledande tändning, exekvering (executing), eldning (heating, lighting of fires), bränsle (combustible, fuel), bränning (breaker, burning, cauterization, cautery, cremation, land-wash, surf), avskjutning (discharge, launching, shooting off), avskjutande. (various references) | |
Turkish | yakma (auto da fe, cauterization, cautery, incineration, lighting, sting), yakacak (fuel), kovma (ax, axe, banishment, bounce, brushoff, exclusion, expelling, expulsion, gate), işten kovma (ax, axe), işten çıkarma (decapitation, discharge, dismissal, gate, severance), ateşleme (discharge, ignition, launching, lift off, priming, spark), ateş etme (fire, pop, shoot), atış (beat, burst, chuck, fling, gunshot, inning, innings, pistol shot, projection, put, shoot, shooting, shot, shy, throw). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стрільба (fire, shooting), розтоплювання, топливо, підпалювання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | củi (firewood, living). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Judges Chapter 15, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai exhyen pur en taiV lampasin kai exapesteilen eiV ta dragmata twn allofulwn kai enepurisen touV stacuaV kai ta proteqerismena apo stoibhV kai ewV estwtoV kai ewV ampelwnoV kai elaiaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quas igne succendens dimisit ut huc illucque discurrerent quae statim perrexerunt in segetes Philisthinorum quibus succensis et conportatae iam fruges et adhuc stantes in stipula concrematae sunt in tantum ut vineas quoque et oliveta flamma consumeret |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The whiche teendynge with fier he lafte, and hidir and thidir thei runnen; the whiche anoon wenten into the cornys of the Philistiens, the whiche sette a fier, and the fruytis, now brouyt to gidre, and the yit stoondynge in the stobil, ben brent, in so mych that vynes and olyues the flawm wastide. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames. |
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| Language | Judges Chapter 15, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa diha nga gipasiga na niya ang agipo iyang gibuhian sila ngadto sa mga nanagtindog pa nga alanihon sa mga Pilistehanon, ug nasunog ang tinapok nga inani ug ang nagatindog nga anihon, ug lakip usab ang mga kaolivahan. |
| Croatian | Tad zapali luèi, pusti lisice u filistejska polja i popali im snopove, i nepokošeno žito, i vinograde, i maslinike. |
| Danish | så tændte han Faklerne, slap Rævene løs i Filisternes Korn og stak Ild både på Negene og Kornet på Roden, også på Vingårde og Oliventræer. |
| Dutch | En hij stak de fakkelen aan met vuur, en liet ze lopen in het staande koren der Filistijnen; en hij stak in brand zowel de korenhopen als het staande koren, zelfs tot de wijngaarden en olijfbomen toe. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän sytytti tulisoihdut ja päästi ketut menemään filistealaisten viljapeltoihin; näin hän sytytti palamaan sekä kuhilaat että kasvavan viljan, viinitarhat ja öljypuut. |
| French | Il alluma les flambeaux, lâcha les renards dans les blés des Philistins, et embrasa les tas de gerbes, le blé sur pied, et jusqu`aux plantations d`oliviers. |
| German | und zündete die Brände an mit Feuer und ließ sie unter das Korn der Philister und zündete also an die Garben samt dem stehenden Korn und Weinberge und Ölbäume. |
| Haitian Creole | Apre sa, li mete dife nan bwa chandèl yo, epi li lage chen mawon yo nan jaden ble moun Filisti yo. Dife boule dènye ble moun yo, non sèlman ble ki kase deja yo, men tou ble ki te sou pye toujou. Dife a boule ata jaden rezen yo ak jaden oliv yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah itu ia menyalakan obor-obor itu lalu melepaskan serigala-serigala itu ke dalam ladang-ladang orang Filistin. Terbakarlah semua gandum yang telah dituai di sana. Bahkan tanaman gandum dan kebun-kebun anggur pun ikut terbakar juga. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka segala damar itupun dipasangnya dengan api, lalu dilepaskannya segala serigala itu kepada perhumaan gandum orang Filistin, dinyalakannya baik segala timbunan gandum baik segala gandum yang lagi terdiri, sampai segala pokok anggur dan segala pohon zaitpun. |
| Maori | Na ka tahuna e ia nga rama, a tukua atu ana ki te witi a nga Pirihitini, wera ake nga puranga witi, me nga mea ano e tu ana; nga mara waina, oriwa ano hoki. |
| Norwegian | Så tendte han ild i faklene og slapp revene inn på filistrenes akrer, og han brente op både kornbånd og uskåret korn og oljehaver. |
| Portuguese | E tendo chegado fogo aos fachos, largou as raposas nas searas dos filisteus:, e assim abrasou tanto as medas como o trigo ainda em pé as vinhas e os olivais. |
| Rumanian | A aprins fqcliile, a dat drumul vulpilor kn grknele Filistenilor, wi a aprins astfel atkt stogurile de snopi, ckt wi grkul care era kn picioare, ba kncq wi grqdinile de mqslini. |
| Swedish | Därefter tände han eld på facklorna och släppte djuren in på filistéernas sädesfält och antände så både sädesskylar och oskuren säd, vingårdar och olivplanteringar. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "firing": firings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "firing": backfiring, counterfiring, misfiring, outfiring, prefiring, refiring, retrofiring. (additional references) | |
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"Firing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eiring, farang, Farin, farinx, farring, Feering, Ferengi, ferin, fering, Feringhi, ferrangi, Ferrano, Ferrigno, ferring, Ferringhi, figing, Figini, Figino, fiiting, Fiorano, Fiorini, Firangi, firen, forign, forin, foring, frang, friking, Fring, frung, Fuhring, furing, iring, viring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "firing" (pronounced fī"ring or fī"erring) |
| 4 | -ī" r i ng | acquiring, admiring, aspiring, conspiring, expiring, hiring, inspiring, perspiring, quiring, rehiring, retiring, tiring, uninspiring, wiring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, adhering, adoring, airing, alluring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, exploring, fearing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, repairing, restoring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, touring, uncaring, underscoring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing. |
| 3 | -r i ng | appearing, acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: iring. | |
-2 letters: firn, frig, girn, grin, ring. | |
-3 letters: fig, fin, fir, gin, rif, rig, rin. | |
-4 letters: if, in. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: fairing, firings, firming, frizing, griffin, nigrify, riffing, rifling, rifting. | |
+2 letters: briefing, drifting, fairings, figurine, figuring, flirting, frigging, frilling, fringier, fringing, frisking, fritting, frizzing, fruiting, griffins, grifting, infringe, refiling, refining, refiring, refixing, reifying, riffling, riflings, trifling. | |
+3 letters: aerifying, affirming, briefings, differing, figurines, filtering, fingering, fingertip, firstling, fissuring, forgiving, fribbling, friending, frighting, frillings, fringiest, frivoling, frizzling, inferring, infighter, infirming, informing, infringed, infringer, infringes, magnifier, misfiring, niffering, nigrified, nigrifies, outfiring, pilfering, prefiling, prefiring, prefixing, profiling, profiting, purifying, ramifying, rarifying, ratifying, refilling, refilming, refinding, refitting, resifting, safariing, signifier, tariffing, triflings, verifying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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