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Noun
S: (n) fire (the event of something burning (often destructive)) "they lost everything in the fire"
S: (n) fire, firing (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"
S: (n) barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling (the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target) "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"
S: (n) broadside (the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship)
S: (n) fusillade, salvo, volley, burst (rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms) "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise"
S: (n) call fire (fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit)
S: (n) cover, covering fire (fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations) "artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal"
S: (n) concentrated fire, massed fire (fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships))
S: (n) counterfire (fire intended to neutralize or destroy enemy weapons)
S: (n) neutralization fire (fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable)
S: (n) observed fire (fire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer; fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations)
S: (n) searching fire (fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun)
S: (n) supporting fire (fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat)
S: (n) close supporting fire (fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it)
S: (n) deep supporting fire (fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications)
S: (n) direct supporting fire (fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole))
S: (n) suppressive fire (fire on or about a weapon system to degrade its performance below what is needed to fulfill its mission objectives)
S: (n) unobserved fire (fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed)
S: (n) fire, flame, flaming (the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke) "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
S: (n) combustion, burning (a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light)
S: (n) oxidation, oxidization, oxidisation (the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction)
S: (n) chemical reaction, reaction ((chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others) "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
S: (n) process, physical process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states) "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
S: (n) fire (a severe trial) "he went through fire and damnation"
S: (n) fire, attack, flak, flack, blast (intense adverse criticism) "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"