Noun : Put the kettle on the fire. ,enemy fire. ,to pour fire upon the enemy. ,heavenly fires.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : They fired the boiler. ,to fire a stone through a window.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : to fire at a fleeing enemy.    From Dictionary.com. 

But in 1973 Davis's career shattered when the label fired him, alleging financial abuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day The Music Stopped] Reference

The Ralph Lauren PhotoShop disaster gets worse: The Daily News reports that the label fired model Fillipa Hamilton in April because she was.    From Wordnik.com.  [BNET Articles] Reference

They found themselves blacklisted as performers plus their label fired them.    From Wordnik.com.  [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference

The next day they again fired into rows of strikers.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADOLESCENCE AND YOUTH] Reference

Four or five more shots were fired from the Dutch ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire] Reference

As he stepped ashore a salute was fired from the boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference

Getting fired is not the same thing as getting censored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Williams Fired For All-Too-Common Offense In Media: Defaming Muslims] Reference

Chenier, Deslauriers and Guitard fired from the cemetery.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant] Reference

Col. Kleingeld again fired shots with his automatic rifle.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference

What was the worst way you have ever been fired from a job?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Finance: Firings gone bad] Reference

The SEALs fired from a Navy destroyer 100 feet from the pirates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pirate Snipers Get Guns Good Press] Reference

As we noted at the end of May, McDuffie was fired from the series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robinson, Bagley named JLA creative team | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

They could also have been fired from the roof of a building, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown Shooter Fires at Pentagon] Reference

If he don't quit shootin 'off his mouth he'll get fired from the shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

She said she believed the shot was fired from a Russian-controlled area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2008] Reference

Pistols were fired from the houses, paving stones and bricks flew about.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference

While he was speaking, another shot was fired from the Frenchman's stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

This being the King's birth-day, a royal salute was fired from the Castle and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 290] Reference

Shortly after 9: 00 AM he was hit by an air-to-air missile (fired from a MIG).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hanson, Gregg O.] Reference

My late brother in law was fired from the Electricity Commission back in 1990.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2] Reference

Up to the moment of landing not a shot had been fired from the Peninsula itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallipoli] Reference

British merchant marine was struck by two torpedoes fired from a German submarine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.] Reference

The Intruder reported four surface-to-air missiles (SAM) fired from the Haiphong area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitzen, John R.] Reference

Most of the sabot slugs are designed to be fired from a rifled barrel, not a smooth bore.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm going deer hunting and can only use a shotgun. So I got my mossberg 500 20 guage with a 28 inch barrel and modified choke.] Reference

He did considerable injury to the enemy, for he fired from a short distance and with safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

However, let's go on to some other bullets fired from the extreme left and the extreme right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Out From Under] Reference

Nobody at NYCB is using the word fired; spokeswoman Elizabeth Healy terms it "a budget issue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancers In The Line Of Fire] Reference

Today Rebekah Spicuglia posted a piece about her sister getting fired from a Chili's restaurant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't mess with our sisters] Reference

There were two immense holes in this cathedral, the result of bombs fired from the German guns in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey Through France in War Time] Reference

We don't even use the word fired -- it's "laid off," "bought out" -- these people are being fired!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reclaim the Media - www.reclaimthemedia.org] Reference

The United States said: We are going to rely on the Polaris missile, to be fired from a submarine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada's Economic Position] Reference

Kyle has scored just seven times in an injury-hit season, but his goals last term fired Killie to safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [tribalfootball.com] Reference

One possible defense included not knowing that "it was possible to get fired from a network no one watches.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letterman Imagines How Rick Sanchez Could Defend Himself (VIDEO)] Reference

Mr Walsh says it looks to him more likely to be a shot fired from a short distance - perhaps about 20 centimetres.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I got fired from the Dairy Queen in Mesquite, Texas because my ice creams were too big and I'd give away too many french fries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Hall: 'So Jean-Paul Sartre asked me to sit at his table…'] Reference