capture gaining control seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
enfilade enfilade fire | gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation |
inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something, the control of the mob by the police was admirable |
crowd control | activity of controlling a crowd |
damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
gun control | efforts to regulate or control sales of guns |
internal control | an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc. |
management control | an internal control performed by one or more managers |
quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
arms control | a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country |
riot control riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
fire watching | (during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky |
control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc, the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired, he had lost control of his sphincters |
motor control | control of muscles |
birth control birth prevention family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control rhythm method rhythm calendar method of birth control calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
fire drill | an exercise intended to train people in duties and escape procedures to be followed in case of fire |
approach attack plan of attack | ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation, his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons, an attack on inflation, his plan of attack was misguided |
reconnaissance by fire | a method of reconnaissance in which fire is placed on a suspected enemy position in order to cause the enemy to disclose his presence by moving or returning fire |
fire firing | the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy, hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes, they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire |
antiaircraft fire | firing at enemy aircraft |
barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops, the shelling went on for hours without pausing |
call fire | fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit |
close supporting fire | fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it |
cover covering fire | fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations, artillery provided covering fire for the withdrawal |
deep supporting fire | fire on objectives not in the immediate vicinity of your forces but with the objective of destroying enemy reserves and weapons and interfering with the enemy command and supply and communications |
direct supporting fire | fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) |
concentrated fire massed fire | fire from two or more weapons directed at a single target or area (as fire by batteries of two or more warships) |
counterbattery fire | fire delivered to neutralize or destroy indirect fire weapon systems |
countermortar fire | mortar fire intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons |
counterpreparation fire | intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered |
destruction fire | fire delivered for the sole purpose of destroying material objects |
direct fire | fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it |
distributed fire | fire dispersed so as to engage effectively an area target |
friendly fire fratricide | fire that injures or kills an ally |
hostile fire | fire that injures or kills an enemy |
grazing fire | fire approximately parallel to the ground, the center of the cone of fire does rise above meter from the ground |
harassing fire | fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale |
indirect fire | fire delivered on a target that is not itself used as the point of aim for the weapons |
interdiction fire | fire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area |
neutralization fire | fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable |
observed fire | fire for which the point of impact (the burst) can be seen by an observer, fire can be adjusted on the basis of the observations |
preparation fire | fire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault |
radar fire | gunfire aimed a target that is being tracked by radar |
registration fire | fire delivered to obtain accurate data for subsequent effective engagement of targets |
scheduled fire | prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time |