fire

See also: FIRE and fíre

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

Noun

fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.
  4. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
  5. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
  6. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
    • The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
  7. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
    • The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
  8. (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
    • We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
  9. (countable, figurative) A barrage, volley
  10. (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
  11. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
  12. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
  13. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
  14. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
  15. Red coloration in a piece of opal.

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Adjective

fire (not comparable) (predicative only)

  1. (slang) Amazing; excellent.
    • That shit is fire, yo!

Alternative forms

  • fye (nonstandard, Internet slang)

Translations


Verb

fire (third-person singular simple present fires, present participle firing, simple past and past participle fired)

  1. (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
  2. (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.
  3. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
  4. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
  5. (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
  6. (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.
  7. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
    • Synonyms: open fire, shoot
    • Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
  8. (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
    • The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
  9. (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
  10. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
  11. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
    • When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
  12. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
    • He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
  13. (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.
  14. (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
    • to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
  15. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
  16. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
    • to fire the genius of a young man
  17. To feed or serve the fire of.
    • to fire a boiler
  18. (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
  19. (transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
  20. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.

Conjugation

infinitive (to) fire
present tense past tense
1st-person singular fire fired
2nd-person singular fire, firest fired, firedst
3rd-person singular fires, fireth fired
plural fire
subjunctive fire fired
imperative fire
participles firing fired

Archaic or obsolete.

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Interjection

fire

  1. command to shoot with firearms

Translations


Anagrams

fire - Asturian

Verb

fire

  1. third-person singular present indicative of firir

fire - Bavarian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈfiːrɛ/

Adverb

fire

  1. ahead, forward (direction away from the speaker)
    • Se san fire gångan.They went ahead.

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).

fire - Crimean Tatar

Noun

fire

  1. shrinkage, loss
  2. scrap

fire - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /fiːrə/, [ˈfiːɐ]

Numeral

fire

  1. four

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)

  1. to lower something fixed to a rope or something similar

Conjugation

present past
simple firer firede
perfect har firet havde firet
passive fires firedes
participle - firet
imperative fir
infinitive fire
auxiliary verb have
gerund

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)

  1. (northern Italy, obsolete) to be

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
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

  1. four

Derived terms


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)

  1. to slacken, ease
  2. to lower (a flag)

fire - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈfiːɾə/

Numeral

fire

  1. four

Derived terms


Verb

fire

  1. to slacken, ease
  2. to lower (e.g. a flag)

fire - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈfi.re/

Noun

fire n

  1. plural of fir

Noun

fire f (plural firi)

  1. essence, substance, nature
  2. character, temper, disposition
  3. mind

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) fire firea (niște) firi firile
genitive/dative (unei) firi firii (unor) firi firilor
vocative fire, fireo firilor

fire - Turkish

Noun

fire (definite accusative fireyi, plural fireler)

  1. wastage
  2. outage
  3. shrinkage, loss, loss in weight, decrease
  4. turnover
  5. ullage
  6. leakage
  7. waste, tret, deficiency

Declension

Inflection
Nominative fire
Definite accusative fireyi
Meaning and Definition of fire
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