different between firing vs glost

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa????/
• Rhymes: -a?????

Noun

firing (countable and uncountable, plural firings)

1. (ceramics) The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.

   After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.

2. The fuel for a fire.
   • c. 1611,, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2,^[1]

     No more dams I’ll make for fish;

     Nor fetch in firing

     At requiring […]

   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961, Chapter 25, p. 133,^[2]

     Downstairs there was a kitchen common to all lodgers, with free firing and a supply of cooking-pots, tea-basins, and toasting-forks.

3. The act of adding fuel to a fire.
4. The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 308,^[3]

     […] they fir’d several Times, making other Signals for the Boat.

     At last, when all their Signals and Firings prov’d fruitless, and they found the Boat did not stir, we saw them by the Help of my Glasses, hoist another Boat out, and row towards the Shore […]

   • 1940, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 43, p. 417,^[4]

     He heard the firing and as he walked he felt it in the pit of his stomach as though it echoed on his own diaphragm.

5. The dismissal of someone from a job.
   • 2016, Matthew d’Ancona, “Theresa May’s Shock Therapy,” The New York Times, 19 July, 2016,^[5]

     Even the most seasoned analysts of British politics were struck by the brutality of Ms. May’s hirings and firings.

6. Cauterization.

Derived terms

• oil firing

Translations

Verb

firing

1. present participle of fire

Anagrams

• RIFing

English

Etymology

See gloss.

Noun

glost (uncountable)

1. (often attributive) Lead glazing used for pottery.
   • 1912, Alice Hamilton, Lead Poisoning in Potteries, Tile Works, and Porcelain Enameled Sanitary Ware Factories, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor, Whole Number 104, Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series, No. 1, page 18,

     In the sanitary-ware potteries of Trenton, and in the general-ware potteries of East Liverpool, the glost-kiln men simply place the glazed ware in saggers, and therefore the only exposure to lead comes from getting their hands smeared with the glaze.

   • 1942, American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Volume 21, page 47,

     The variations in glaze texture with different glost thermal treatment were observed. Two glazes, each made of the same end formula but differing in the distribution of their composition, received four different commercial glost firings.

   • 1978, W. Ryan, Properties of Ceramic Raw Materials, 2nd Edition, page 19,

     If no decoration is applied, biscuit or glost firing is the final operation in manufacture.

Derived terms

• glost oven

German

Verb

glost

1. inflection of glosen:
   1. second/third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative