fire
fire - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfaɪ.ə/, [faɪ̯ə]
- (triphthong smoothing) IPA: [ˈfaə], [ˈfaː], [ˈfɑə], [ˈfɑəː]
- (General American) enPR: fīʹər, fīr, IPA: /ˈfaɪ.əɹ/, [ˈfaɪ̯ɚ]
- (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA: [ˈfäːɚ]
- (Inland Northern American, Western New England, Philadelphia) IPA: [fʌɪ̯ɚ]
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈfaɪ.ə/, [ˈfɑe̯ə]
Alternative forms
- fier (archaic)
Noun
fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)
- (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
- (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
- We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.
- (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.
- During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.
- (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
- The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
- (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
- The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
- (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
- We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
- (countable, figurative) A barrage, volley
- (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
- Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
- Red coloration in a piece of opal.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- a burnt child dreads the fire
- add fuel to fire
- add fuel to the fire
- all-fire
- back fire
- balefire
- ball of fire
- baptism by fire
- baptism of fire
- bin fire
- blue fire
- bone fire
- bone-fire
- bonfire
- breathe fire
- brush fire, brush-fire, brushfire
- build a fire under
- bump fire
- bump-fire
- bush fire
- bushfire
- campfire
- catch fire
- catch on fire
- cease fire
- cease-fire
- ceasefire
- Chinese fire drill
- climate fire
- co-fire
- cold fire
- contagious fire
- covering fire
- crown fire
- death-fire
- Devil's Broom fire
- die in a fire
- direct fire
- draw fire
- dropping fire
- drumfire
- dry fire
- dry-fire
- dumpster fire
- electric fire
- escape fire
- exchange of fire
- false fire
- fen fire
- field of fire
- fiery
- fight fire with fire
- fire air
- fire alarm
- fire alarm horn
- fire and brimstone
- fire and forget
- fire ant
- fire appliance
- fire arm
- fire arrow
- fire away
- fire ax
- fire axe
- fire balloon
- fire basket
- fire bay
- fire beater
- fire beetle
- fire bellied toad
- fire blanket
- fire blanks
- fire blast
- fire blight
- fire block
- fire boss
- fire box
- fire break
- fire breathing, fire-breathing, firebreathing
- fire brick
- fire brigade
- fire bucket
- fire button
- fire cabinet
- fire cart
- fire chicken
- fire chief
- fire cider
- fire clay
- fire code
- fire company
- fire controlman
- fire crotch
- fire cupping
- fire damper, firedamper
- fire dancer
- fire department
- fire devil, fire-devil, firedevil
- fire diamond
- fire dog
- fire dogs
- fire door
- fire drill
- fire eater
- fire eating
- fire engine
- fire engine red
- fire escape
- fire exit
- fire extinguisher
- fire fighter
- fire fighting
- fire flapper
- fire fountain
- fire gilding
- fire gilt
- fire grate
- fire grenade
- fire guard
- fire hall
- fire hazard
- fire hose
- fire house
- fire hydrant
- fire in one's belly
- fire in the belly
- fire in the hole
- fire inspection
- fire iron
- fire lance
- fire lane
- fire load
- fire lookout tower
- fire machine
- fire main
- fire marble
- fire mark
- fire marshal
- fire mission
- fire on all cylinders
- fire opal
- fire out
- fire people
- fire philosopher
- fire pike
- fire piston
- fire pit
- fire plant
- fire point
- fire pole
- fire practice
- fire raft
- fire rainbow
- fire regime
- fire retardant
- fire ring
- fire roll
- fire salamander
- fire sale
- fire saw
- fire scar
- fire screen
- fire service
- fire ship, fireship
- fire sign
- fire spear
- fire sprinkler
- fire stairs
- fire station
- fire step
- fire stop
- fire storm
- fire striker
- fire swab
- fire swatter
- fire system
- fire teaser
- fire temple
- fire tongs
- fire tower
- fire tower stairway
- fire trench
- fire triangle
- fire truck
- fire walker
- fire watch
- fire whirl, fire-whirl, firewhirl
- fire worship
- fire-bath
- fire-bellied toad
- fire-bote
- fire-breather, firebreather
- fire-bucket
- fire-capped tit
- fire-crotch
- fire-eater
- fire-escape knot
- fire-eyed diucon
- fire-fanged
- fire-fight
- fire-fly
- fire-gilding
- fire-grate
- fire-new
- fire-plough
- fire-power
- fire-proof
- fire-raiser
- fire-resistant
- fire-retardant
- fire-sale
- fire-starter, firestarter
- fire-stick
- fire-stick farming
- fire-stop
- fire-worship
- fire-worshipper
- firearm
- fireball
- fireblast
- fireboat
- firebolt
- firebomb
- firebox
- firebrand
- firebreak
- firebrick
- firebug
- fireclay
- firecracker
- firedamp
- firefight
- firefighter
- firefly
- fireguard
- firehole
- firehouse
- fireless
- firelighter
- fireline
- fireman
- firenado
- firepink
- firepit
- fireplace
- fireplug
- fireproof
- firer
- fireshine
- fireside
- firestop
- firestorm
- firewire
- firewoman
- firewood
- firework
- firey
- forest fire
- fox fire
- fox-fire
- foxfire
- free-fire
- fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
- friendly fire
- gas fire
- get on like a house on fire
- go through fire and water
- grass fire
- grassfire
- grazing fire
- great balls of fire
- Grecian fire
- Greek fire
- green fire
- hair-on-fire
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- heap coals on fire
- hold fire
- hold one's fire
- hold someone's feet to the fire
- holy fire
- hot as fire
- Indian fire
- indirect fire
- insurance fire
- irons in the fire
- Kentish fire
- kill it with fire
- kindle-fire
- last burst of fire
- liar liar pants on fire
- light a fire under
- light one's hair on fire
- light someone's fire
- line of fire
- Lob Lie-by-the-fire
- Lob-lie-by-the-fire
- miss fire
- need-fire
- no smoke without fire
- oblique fire
- on fire
- open fire
- ordeal of fire
- out of the frying pan and into the fire
- pants on fire
- philosopher by fire
- philosopher of fire
- play with fire
- pour fuel on the fire
- pour gasoline on the fire
- pre-fire
- Promethean fire
- pull from the fire
- pull out of the fire
- pull someone's bacon out of the fire
- pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
- pull someone's fat out of the fire
- pull the fat out of the fire
- pull the fire alarm
- put out a fire
- put out the fire
- quick-fire
- rain fire and brimstone
- rapid fire
- rapid fire pistol
- rapid-fire
- real fire
- red fire
- red imported fire ant
- rediscover fire
- return fire
- run around with one's hair on fire
- running fire
- Saint Anthony's fire
- Saint Elmo's fire
- selective fire
- set fire
- set on fire
- set one's hair on fire
- set the heather on fire
- set the Thames on fire
- set the world on fire
- shit fire
- shit fire and save matches
- signal fire
- sit-by-the-fire
- spit fire
- spit-fire
- spot fire
- St Anthony's fire
- St Elmo's fire
- St. Anthony's fire
- St. Elmo's fire
- stand fire
- static fire
- static-fire
- sure-fire
- take fire
- test-fire
- the burnt child dreads the fire
- the burnt child fears the fire
- the fat is in the fire
- there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
- there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace
- throw gas on the fire
- throw gasoline on the fire
- tire fire
- tire-fire
- trash fire
- trial by fire
- Trumpster fire
- under fire
- upside-down fire
- walking fire
- water fire
- where's the fire
- wildfire
- you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
- you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
- zombie fire
- zombie fire
- zone of fire
Descendants
Translations
Adjective
fire (not comparable) (predicative only)
Alternative forms
- fye (nonstandard, Internet slang)
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Verb
fire (third-person singular simple present fires, present participle firing, simple past and past participle fired)
- (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
- They fire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.
- (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
- (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
- Antonym: hire
- (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
- (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
- We will fire our guns at the enemy.
- The jet fired a salvo of rockets at the truck convoy.
- He fired his radar gun at passing cars.
- (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
- (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
- (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
- (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
- When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
- (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
- He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
- (transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.
- The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.
- (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
- (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
- To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- to fire the genius of a young man
- To feed or serve the fire of.
- to fire a boiler
- (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- (transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
- (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (set on fire): See set on fire
- (transitive, shoot): let off, loose (archery), shoot
- (terminate the employment of): dehire, dismiss, give one's cards, give the boot, give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, let go, make redundant, sack, terminate, throw out, unhire; See also lay off.
Derived terms
- coal-fired, coalfired
- fire at will
- fire away
- fire in anger
- fire off
- fire up
- firing (adjective, noun)
- hang fire
- oil-fired
- overfire, over-fire
- overfired (adjective)
- ready, aim, fire
- ready, fire, aim
- ripple-fire
- slamfire
- stoker-fired
- underfire
- underfired (adjective)
- unfirable
- you're fired
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Interjection
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Anagrams
fire - Asturian
Verb
fire
- third-person singular present indicative of firir
fire - Bavarian
Alternative forms
- vire (spelling)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfiːrɛ/
Adverb
fire
Usage notes
Bavarian adverbs of direction come in pairs: endings in -i or -e denote direction away from the speaker (akin to German hin), and endings in -a denote direction towards the speaker (akin to German her).
Related terms
fire - Crimean Tatar
Noun
fire
fire - Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /fiːrə/, [ˈfiːɐ]
Numeral
fire
Usage notes
In compounds: fir-.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /fiːrə/, [ˈfiːɐ]
Verb
fire (imperative fir, infinitive at fire, present tense firer, past tense firede, perfect tense har firet)
- to lower something fixed to a rope or something similar
Conjugation
fire - Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfi.re/
- Hyphenation: fì‧re
Verb
fìre (third-person only, no present, no past historic, no past participle, no imperfect, third-person singular future fìa or fìe, no subjunctive, no imperfect subjunctive)
Conjugation
- The only forms attested outside of old Northern Italian literature are the future fia, fie (third-person singular) and fiano, fieno (third-person plural).
infinitive | fìre | |||||
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auxiliary verb | — | gerund | — | |||
present participle | — | past participle | — | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
past historic | — | — | — | — | — | — |
future | — | — | fìa, fìe | — | — | fìano, fìeno |
conditional | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | — | — | — | — |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
— | — | — | — | — | ||
negative imperative | — | — | — | — | — |
Anagrams
fire - Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfiːɾə/
Numeral
fire
Derived terms
Related terms
- fjerde (ordinal)
Verb
fire (imperative fir, present tense firer, passive fires, simple past fira or firet or firte, past participle fira or firet or firt, present participle firende)
fire - Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
IPA: /ˈfiːɾə/
Numeral
fire
Derived terms
- firedel
- firehjulsdrift
- fireåring, firåring
- firkant
- firkløver
- firmenning
Related terms
- fjerde (ordinal)
Verb
fire
fire - Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfi.re/
Noun
fire n
- plural of fir
Noun
fire f (plural firi)
- essence, substance, nature
- Synonym: natură
- character, temper, disposition
- Synonyms: caracter, temperament
- mind
- Synonym: minte
Declension
Related terms
fire - Turkish
Noun
fire (definite accusative fireyi, plural fireler)
- wastage
- outage
- shrinkage, loss, loss in weight, decrease
- turnover
- ullage
- leakage
- waste, tret, deficiency
Declension
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | fire | |
Definite accusative | fireyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | fire | fireler |
Definite accusative | fireyi | fireleri |
Dative | fireye | firelere |
Locative | firede | firelerde |
Ablative | fireden | firelerden |
Genitive | firenin | firelerin |