firing lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it" "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it" "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
• the heat or the color of fire
• 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"
• a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning "they sat by the fire and talked"
• intense adverse criticism "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party" "the government has come under attack" "don't give me any flak"
• the event of something burning (often destructive) "they lost everything in the fire"
• a severe trial "he went through fire and damnation"
• feelings of great warmth and intensity "he spoke with great ardor"
• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)