overfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈfaɪə/
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈfaɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: overfires
form: overfiring
form: overfired
form: overfired
form: over-fire
Etymology: From over- (prefix meaning ‘above, higher; excessively’) + fire.
Senses: examples: text: I found that the Chapelon steamed almost too freely, because on a strange locomotive and road one usually tends to overfire a little through a natural lack of confidence.
ref: 1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 110:
text: Overfiring the appliance may cause a house fire. If a unit or chimney connector glows, you are overfiring.
ref: 1985, Code of Federal Regulations: Commercial Practices […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office for the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service and General Services Administration, page 322:
text: We have so far concentrated on creosote fires as a source of elevated flue gas temperatures. But overfiring the stove or fireplace – building a large, hot fire – can also produce very high temperatures.
ref: 1987 September, Citizens’ Committee for Fire Protection, International Society of Fire Service Instructors, Alternative Heater Fires: A Critical Review of Safety Issues, [Emmitsburg, Md.]: United States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, →OCLC, page 41:
synonyms: overstoke
glosses: To create too large a fire in a fireplace, furnace, firebox, etc.
examples: text: 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.
ref: [20th century], Installing and Operating Paragon P-Series Electric Kilns [instruction manual], Dallas, Tex.: Paragon Industries, page 19:
english: instruction manual
translation: instruction manual
text: At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place. At 1450°C it is, therefore, decidedly overfired. However, its excellent burning behavior is apparent from the long temperature range.
ref: 1919, United States. Bureau of Standards, Technologic Papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 15:
text: The principal criteria of the value of the clay as determined by burning are the overfiring temperature and the softening point.
ref: 1922, H[einrich] Ries, W[illiam] S[hirley] Bayley [et al.], High-grade Clays of the Eastern United States: With Notes on Some Western Clays (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin; 708), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 12:
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: underfire
glosses: To fire at a high (or excessively high) temperature.
examples: text: Geoffery Schultz, a student of [Ronald] Melzack, has recently conducted a study showing that visual hallucinations need not be caused by psychopathology but may result from the disruption of sensory input among patients suffering eye damage. The neuromatrix, in Melzack's theory, overfires its output messages in the absence of stimulation from external sources (or temping feedback), and creates images – often fantastic or exaggerated – that may be experienced as real.
ref: 2003, Ariel Glucklich, Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
antonyms: underfire
glosses: Of a cell or group of cells: to fire excessively.
Derived terms: word: overfired
Related terms: overburn