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Conflagration vs Firing - What's the difference?

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Conflagration is a related term of firing.


As nouns the difference between conflagration and firing

is that conflagration is a large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning while firing is the process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.

As a verb firing is

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conflagration

English

(wikipedia conflagration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
    • It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration .
  • (figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
  • * 1919 , :
    • This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear of attacks and patriotic reactions of self-defence against such attacks until the evil genie of self-preservation and fear became loose, resulting in a sweeping conflagration of a war of nations with all the horror of diseases, mutilation, and extermination of millions of human lives, over seventeen and a half millions, according to latest accounts, having perished in this world-massacre of the human race.

    Synonyms

    * firestorm, inferno

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "conflagration")

    See also

    * conflagrant * connixation * fire * wildfire English words suffixed with -ation

    firing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay etc to produce pottery.
  • The fuel for a fire.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • No more dams I'll make for fish; / Nor fetch in firing / At requiring [...]
  • The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
  • The dismissal of someone from a job.

    • Verb

    (head)