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Overfired vs Overfires - What's the difference?

overfired | overfires |

As verbs the difference between overfired and overfires

is that overfired is (overfire) while overfires is (overfire).

As an adjective overfired

is (comparable|ceramics) at a high (or excessively high) temperature.

overfired

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Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (comparable, ceramics) at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
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  • (not comparable, cooking) Of a cooker: having a heat source that is above the food being cooked.
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    * underfired

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overfire)

    • overfires

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (overfire)

    • overfire

    English

    Adjective

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  • Of a boiler, furnace or other heating device: relating to components or other things that are located above the fire.
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    • Verb

    (overfir)
  • To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, etc.
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  • (ceramics) To at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
  • * [20th century ], Installing and Operating Paragon P-Series Electric Kilns [instruction manual], Dallas, Tex.: Paragon Industries, Inc., page 19:
    • BUBBLES IN GLAZE may be caused by too heavy an application, or by severe underfiring or overfiring'. […] LOSS OF COLOR IN CHINA PAINTING is a result of '''overfiring''' or mixing too much medium with the paint. Be careful not to ' overfire china colors, and if a light shade of a dark color is needed, apply the color very lightly rather than thinning too much.
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  • (physiology) Of a cell or group of cells: to excessively.
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    • Derived terms

    * overfired

    Antonyms

    * underfire