different between canned vs fired

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kænd/
• Rhymes: -ænd

Adjective

canned (not comparable)

1. Preserved in cans.

2. (by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.
   • 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer

     Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.

   • 2005, James Howard Kunstler — The Long Emergency

     The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.

3. (slang) Drunk.
4. Terminated, fired from a job.

Synonyms

• (preserved in cans): tinned
• (prepared or standard): boilerplate, stock
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• (preserved in cans): dried

Derived terms

• (prepared or standard): canned laughter
• canned opener

Translations

Verb

canned

1. simple past tense and past participle of can

Anagrams

• dancen, nanced

English

Etymology

From fire +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fa?(?)?d/
• Hyphenation: fir?ed

Adjective

fired

1. dismissed, let go from a job.
2. (ceramics) Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.

Derived terms

• overfired, over-fired
• underfired, under-fired

Translations

Verb

fired

1. simple past tense and past participle of fire

Anagrams

• Efird, Fedir, RIFed, fried, redif

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (farada).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.r?t/

Verb

fired (imperfect jifred, past participle mifrud)

1. to split
2. to separate

Conjugation