A largefire (3) A small fire from alighter (2) The fire of a stationary minigun (7) ( Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key ) : /ˈfaɪ.ə/ ,[faɪ̯ə] ( General American ) enPR :fīʹər ,fīr ,IPA (key ) : /ˈfaɪ.ɚ/ ,[ˈfaɪ̯ɚ] ,/ˈfaɪɹ/ ( Southern US , Appalachia ) IPA (key ) : [ˈfäːɚ] ( Inland Northern American , Western New England, Ontario , Philadelphia ) IPA (key ) : [fʌɪ̯ɚ] ( General Australian , New Zealand ) IPA (key ) : /ˈfaɪ.ə/ ,[ˈfɑe̯ə] ( Dublin ) IPA (key ) : /ˈfo̞ɪ.ɚ/ ,/ˈfəɪ.ɚ/ ,/ˈfo̞ɪ.ɐ/ ,/ˈfəɪ.ɐ/ Rhymes:-aɪə(ɹ) FromMiddle English fyr Old English fȳr ( “ fire ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *fuir *fuïr Proto-Germanic *fōr ( “ fire ” ) , ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
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See alsoScots feier fyre ( “ fire ” ) ,Yola vier vire ( “ fire ” ) ,Saterland Frisian Fjuur Fjúur ( “ fire ” ) ,West Frisian fjoer ( “ fire ” ) ,Alemannic German Füür ( “ fire ” ) ,Bavarian Feia ( “ fire ” ) ,Central Franconian Fauer Feier Füür ( “ fire ” ) ,Cimbrian bôar vaür vôar ( “ fire ” ) ,Dutch vier vuur ( “ fire ” ) ,German Feuer ( “ fire ” ) ,German Low German Füer Füür ( “ fire ” ) ,Luxembourgish Feier ( “ fire ” ) ,Mòcheno vaier ( “ fire ” ) ,Vilamovian faojer ( “ fire ” ) ,West Flemish vier ( “ fire ” ) ,Yiddish פֿײַער ( fayer ,“ fire ” ) ,Danish Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Nynorsk Swedish fyr ( “ fire ” ) ,Icelandic funi ( “ fire ” ) ,Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌽 ( fōn “ fire ” ) . Also, compareArmenian հուր ( hur ,“ fire ” ) ,Greek πυρ ( pyr ,“ fire ” ) ,Latin pūrgō ( “ to clean, cleanse, clear, purge, purify ” ) ,Umbrian 𐌐𐌉𐌓 ( pir ,“ fire ” ) ,Bulgarian фир ( fir ,“ ooze, pickle, soak ” ) ,Polish perz ( “ smoke ” ) ,Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 ( paḫḫur ,“ fire ” ) ,Luwian 𒉺𒀀𒄷𒌋𒌨 ( pāhūr ,“ fire ” ) ,Tocharian A/Bpor puwar ( “ fire ” ) . This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart wasProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis ignite pyre
fire (countable anduncountable plural fires
( uncountable ) chemical reaction involving thebonding ofoxygen withcarbon or otherfuel , with the production ofheat and the presence offlame orsmouldering .( countable ) campfire or ahearth fire).We sat about thefire singing songs and telling tales.
1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VIII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC We toted in the wood and got thefire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
( countable ) accidental , of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.There was afire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.
During hot and dry summers manyfires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.
2020 January 1, Bernard Lagan, “Thousands flee to beaches as the flames close in”, inThe Times , number73,044 , page24 :Efforts to fight thefires in New South Wales and Victoria were hampered as largefires converged and created their own violent weather systems. Thefire created dry lightning storms so severe that planes had to be grounded.
( uncountable , alchemy , philosophy ) Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.( countable , British ) heater orstove used in place of a real fire (such as anelectric fire ).( countable ) Thefire was laid and needed to be lit.
( uncountable ) bullets or otherprojectiles fired from agun or otherranged weapon .Thefire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
( countable ) artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.We dominated the battlespace with ourfires .
( countable , African-American Vernacular , slang ) firearm .2023 June 23, “Special K” (track 7), inBLP Kosher (lyrics),Bars Mitzva [1] 2:01 I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below
( countable , figurative ) barrage ,volley 1911 The Golden Bough , volume 7, page136 :In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf [...] is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid afire of jokes.
( astronautics ) firing one or morerocket engines .Strength of passion, whether love or hate.1829 Edgar Allan Poe , “Tamerlane ”, inAl Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems :You call it hope—thatfire offire !
Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.1711 Alexander Pope ],An Essay on Criticism [ … ] W[ illiam] Lewis [ … ] [ illiam] Taylor [ … ] [ homas] Osborn[ e] [ … ] [ ohn] Graves [ … ] →OCLC And bless their critic with a poet'sfire .
1991 December 15, Michael Halberstadt, “Queer Proposals?”, inGay Community News , volume19 , number22 , page 5:Attendance of QN meetings has been dwindling, and the creativefire drained from the organization by the dead hand of wannabe bureaucrats bend[sic on thought control. The action has long since been elsewhere. Splendour ;brilliancy ;lustre ; hence, astar .c. 1606 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Macbeth ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene iv] :Stars, hide yourfires .
1667 John Milton , “Book XII”, inParadise Lost. [ … ] [ … ] [Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [ … ] [ a] nd by Robert Boulter [ … ] [ a] nd Matthias Walker, [ … ] →OCLC Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering [ … ] 1873 ,→OCLC As in a zodiac representing the heavenlyfires .
Asevere trial ; anything inflaming or provoking. Redcoloration in a piece ofopal . ( gemology ) capacity of agemstone , especially afaceted ,cut gemstone, that istransparent tovisible light , todisperse white light into itsmultispectral component parts, resulting in aflash of differentcolors , therichness anddispersion of which increases the gemstone'svalue .2009 Gems & Gemology [2] 45 , number 4, Gemological Institute of America,→DOI the original on30 July 2024 , pages260–270 :In other words, the more times a light ray reflects within a diamond, the greater the separation of the spectral colors—and the more obvious the appearance offire —will be.Fire in a gemstone is best defined as "the visible extent of light dispersed into spectral colors" (Reinitz et al., 2001). In a polished diamond, this is seen as flares or flashes of color that appear and disappear as the diamond, the observer, or the light source moves.
a burnt child dreads the fire add fuel to fire add fuel to the fire afire all-fire antifire anti-fire autofire back fire balefire ball of fire baptism by fire baptism of fire Bengal fire bin fire black imported fire ant blue fire bone-fire bone fire bonfire breathe fire brush fire brush-fire brushfire build a fire under bump-fire bump fire bumpfire bush fire bushfire Byzantine fire call the fire department campfire camp fire catch fire catch on fire cease fire ceasefire cease-fire centerfire central fire chimney fire chimpanzee fire Chinese fire drill climate fire co-fire cold fire contagious fire cookfire counterfire covering fire crossfire crown fire death-fire Devil's Broom fire die in a fire direct fire dragonfire draw fire dropping fire drumfire dry-fire dry fire dumpster fire electric fire Elmo's fire enfire escape fire exchange of fire fairy fire false fire fan the fire feed the fire fen fire field of fire fiery fight fire with fire firable fireable fire air fire alarm fire alarm horn fire and brimstone fire and forget fire ant fire appliance firearm fire arm fire arrow fire away fire ax fire axe fireback fireball fire balloon firebar fire barn firebase fire basket firebath fire-bath firebathe fire bay fire beater fire beetle fire bell firebell fire-bellied fire-bellied newt fire-bellied toad fire bellied toad firebelly fire bike firebird fire blanket fire blanks fireblast fire blast fire blight fire blindness fire block fireboard fire-board fire board fireboat firebolt firebomb fire boss firebote fire-bote fire box firebox fireboy firebrand firebrass firebrat firebreak fire break fire-breather firebreather fire breathing fire-breathing firebreathing firebrick fire brick fire brigade fire-bucket fire bucket firebug fire button fire cabinet firecall fire camp firecan fire-capped tit fire cart fire chicken fire chief fire cider fire clay fireclay fire cloud firecock fire code fire company fire controlman fire coral firecracker firecraft firecrest fire crotch fire-crotch firecrown fire cupping firedamp fire damper firedamper fire dancer fire department fire devil fire-devil firedevil fire diamond fire dog fire dogs firedoor fire door firedragon firedrake fire drill firee fire-eater fireeater fire eater fire eating fire eel fire engine fire engine red fire escape fire-escape knot fire exit fire extinguisher fire-eye fire-eyed diucon firefall fire fan firefan fire-fang fire-fanged fire fighter firefighter firefight fire-fight fire fighting firefighting firefinch fire finder firefish fire flapper firefloat firefly fire-fly fireform fire fountain Firefox firefront fire-fronted bishop fire gilding fire-gilding fire gilt fire-gown firegrate fire-grate fire grate fire grenade fireground fireguard fire guard firehall fire hall fire hawk fire hazard firehole firehook fire hose firehot fire house firehouse fire hydrant fire ice fire in one's belly fire inspection fire inspector fire insurance fire in the belly fire in the hole fire iron firekeeper fire lance fireland Fireland fire lane fireless firelet firelight firelighter firelighting firelike fire lily fireline firelit fire load firelock firelog fire lookout tower fire machine fire main firemaker firemaking fireman fire marble fire mark fire marshal fire marshall firemaster fire mission fire moss fire mountain firenado fireness fire-new fire obsidian fire officer fire on all cylinders fire-on-the-mountain fire opal fire out firepan fire pan fire people fireperson fire philosopher fire pike firepink fire piston fire pit firepit fire-place fireplace fire plant fireplay fire-plough fireplug fire point fire pole firepole fire police firepot fire-power firepower fire practice fireproof fire-proof firer fire raft fire rainbow fireraiser fire-raiser fireraising fire-raising fire rake fire regime fire-resistant fire retardant fire-retardant fire-retarded fire ring fireroad fire roll fireroom firesafe fire safety fire salamander fire-sale fire sale firesand fire saw fire scar fire science firescorched firescreen fire screen fire service fireset firesetter firesetting fireshine fire ship fireship fire shirt fire shovel hat fireside fire-side fire sign fire site firesmoke firesome fire spear fire sprinkler fire stairs fire starter fire-starter firestarter fire station firesteel fire step firestick fire-stick fire-stick farming firestink firestone fire-stop firestop fire stop firestorm fire-storm fire storm firestriker fire striker firesuit fire swab fire swatter fire system fire table firetail fireteam fire teaser fire temple firetender firetending fire tetrahedron firethorn firethroat fire tongs Firetop fire tower fire tower stairway fire train firetrap fire trench fire triangle fire truck firetruck firetube firewagon firewalk fire walker firewall fireward firewarden fire watch firewatcher firewater fireweed firewheel fire whirl fire-whirl firewhirl firewire firewise firewoman firewood firework fireworker fireworks fireworm fire-worship fire worship fire-worshipper fireworthy firey firie firy fiya flashfire forest fire foxfire fox fire fox-fire free-fire fresh fucked fox in a forest fire friendly fire frontfire garbage fire gas fire get on like a house on fire gigafire go through fire and water grass fire grassfire grazing fire great balls of fire Grecian fire Greek fire green fire groundfire gunfire hair-on-fire headfire heap coals of fire on someone's head heap coals on fire hellfire hell's fire anemone hill fire hold fire hold one's fire holdover fire hold someone's feet to the fire holy fire hot as fire housefire Indian fire indirect fire insurance fire irons in the fire I wouldn't piss on someone if they were on fire Kentish fire kill it with fire kindle-coal kindle-fire lake of 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 megafire misfire miss fire need-fire nightfire nonfire no smoke without fire oblique fire on fire open fire ordeal of fire outfire out of the frying pan and into the fire overwintering fire palaeofire paleofire pants on fire philosopher by fire philosopher of fire pillar of fire pinfire play with fire Polish fire drill postfire pour fuel on the fire pour gasoline on the fire prefire pre-fire primary fire project 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 pistol rapid-fire rapid fire real fire red fire red imported fire ant rediscover fire refire retrofire return fire rimfire run around with one's hair on fire running fire Saint Anthony's fire Saint Elmo's fire scarefire scathefire sea-fire secondary fire selective fire set fire set fire by set fire in set fire into set fire of set fire on set fire to set fire unto set fire upon set one's hair on fire set on fire set the heather on fire set the Thames on fire set the world on fire shellfire shitfire shit fire shit fire and save matches shout fire in a crowded theater shouting fire in a crowded theater signal fire sit-by-the-fire spellfire spit-fire spitfire spit fire spot fire stand fire St Anthony's fire St. Anthony's fire static-fire static fire St. Elmo's fire St Elmo's fire strikefire St. Ulmo's fire sure-fire take fire testfire test-fire the burnt child dreads the fire the burnt child fears the fire the fat hit 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 there's no smoke without fire throw gasoline on the fire throw gas on the fire thunder fire tire-fire tire fire trash fire trashfire trial by fire Trumpster fire twitch fire under fire unfire upside-down fire veldfire walking fire watchfire water fire where's the fire wildfire will-fire witch's fire woodfire 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 zone of fire fire (notcomparable )( predicative only )
( slang ) Amazing ;excellent .This isfire , keep up the amazing work!
FromMiddle English firen fyren furen Old English fȳrian ( “ to make a fire ” ) , from the noun (see above). Cognate withOld Frisian fioria ( “ to light a fire ” ) ,Saterland Frisian fjuurje ( “ to fire ” ) ,Middle Dutch vûren vueren vieren ( “ to set fire ” ) ,Dutch vuren ( “ to fire, shoot ” ) ,Old High German fiuren ( “ to ignite, set on fire ” ) ,German feuern ( “ to fire ” ) .
fire (third-person singular simple present fires present participle firing simple past and past participle fired
( transitive ) on fire .Synonyms: inflame kindle see also Thesaurus:kindle 1897 H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells , “At the House in Great Portland Street”, inThe Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance Harper & Brothers Publishers ,→OCLC page186 :["]Then I slipped up again with a box of matches,fired my heap of paper and rubbish, put the chairs and bedding thereby, led the gas to the affair, by means of an india-rubber tube, and waving a farewell to the room left it for the last time." / "Youfired the house!" exclaimed Kemp. / "Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail – and no doubt it was insured.["]
1908 February 19,Jack London ,The Iron Heel The Macmillan Company ; London:Macmillan & Co. ,→OCLC It was long a question of debate, whether the burning of the South Side ghetto was accidental, or whether it was done by the Mercenaries; but it is definitely settled now that the ghetto wasfired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.
( transitive ) fire , but without settingon fire , asceramic , metal objects, etc.If youfire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
Theyfire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.
1908 [ illiam] B[ lair] M[ orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein , New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company ,→OCLC So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar onesfired -in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[ …]
( transitive ) fire .( transitive , employment) terminate theemployment contract of (an employee), especiallyfor cause (such asmisconduct ,incompetence , orpoor performance ).Synonyms: dehire dismiss give someone their cards give the boot give the elbow give someone the heave-ho let go make redundant sack terminate throw out unhire see also Thesaurus:lay off Antonym: hire 1969 Vladimir Nabokov ,Ada or Ardor 2011 , page226 :The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired ’ [ …]
( transitive , by extension) contract with aclient ; todrop a client.1979 Operating a Successful Accounting Practice: A Collection of Material from the Journal of Accountancy Practitioners Forum ,→ISBN →OCLC 288 :Don't be hesitant tofire a client - cull out the deadwood. If a client doesn't meet the above criteria, you are better off without him. You don't do your best work for a client you'd rather not have.
2020 Museum Mercenary: A Handbook for Independent Museum Professionals ,→ISBN →OCLC 278 :Maintaining a collegial attitude even when doing the more difficult business work, likefiring a client, is another part. If you are struggling through the relationship, the client might be struggling as well, sofiring them may be mutually beneficial, and you should try and do it on the best of terms.
( transitive ) shoot (agun ,rocket /missile , or analogous device).Synonyms: let off ( archery ) loose shoot We willfire our guns at the enemy.
The jetfired a salvo of rockets at the truck convoy.
Hefired his radar gun at passing cars.
( intransitive ) shoot agun ,cannon , or similarweapon .Synonyms: open fire shoot Don'tfire until you see the whites of their eyes.
1989 Last Chance in Manchuria [3] Hoover Institution Press,→ISBN →LCCN →OCLC page93 :I heard that both yesterday and today, when transports of the central government carrying our soldiers arrived at Hu-lu-tao, bandit troops on the shorefired at them.
( astronautics ) rocket engine to producethrust .The RCS thrustersfired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
( transitive , mining ) set off anexplosive in amine .( transitive , sports ) shoot ; to attempt toscore agoal .( intransitive , physiology ) action potential in a cell.When a neuronfires , it transmits information.
( transitive ) forcibly direct (something).Synonyms: propel shoot throw He answered the questions the reportersfired at him.
( ambitransitive , computer sciences, software engineering) initiate anevent (by means of anevent handler ).The event handler should onlyfire after all web page content has finished loading.
The queuefires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.
( transitive ) inflame ; toirritate , as the passions.Synonyms: arouse excite see also Thesaurus:thrill ,Thesaurus:incite tofire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
( intransitive , dated ) irritated orinflamed withpassion .1864 Uncle Silas Inexperienced girl as I was, Ifired at the idea of becoming his dupe, and fancying, perhaps, that there was more in merely answering his note than it would have amounted to, I said — "That kind of thing may answer very well with button-makers, but ladies don't like it.[ …]
Toanimate ; to givelife orspirit to.Synonyms: energize inspirit see also Thesaurus:enliven tofire the genius of a young man
Tofeed orserve thefire of.tofire a boiler
1961 Trains Illustrated , pages150, 151 :We left with the "Blue Train", dead on time. This time Ifired all the way.[ …] fired from Paris to Calais.
( transitive ) light up as if byfire ; toilluminate .Synonyms: belight see also Thesaurus:illuminate c. 1593 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: [ … ] ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene ii] :[The sun]fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
( transitive , farriery ) cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body).( intransitive , dated ) catch fire ; to bekindled .Synonyms: go up in flames see also Thesaurus:combust ( intransitive , dated ) fireman , one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train.Ifired on that train until August.
( slang , usually with "up") ( horse racing , intransitive ) 1988 Chronicle of the Horse , volume51 , numbers1-13 , page18 :I'd say he struggled to get around the course. He neverfired . In other years, when Buzzy Hannum rode him, he ran well enough to win, but not this time.
to drive away by setting a fire
to terminate the employment of
Afrikaans:ontslaan Arabic:طَرَدَ (ar) ( ṭarada ) Armenian:ազատել (hy) ( azatel ) ,հեռացնել (hy) ( heṙacʻnel ) Azerbaijani:çıxarmaq (az) ,işdən çıxarmaq Belarusian:звальня́ць impf ( zvalʹnjácʹ ) ,зво́льніць pf ( zvólʹnicʹ ) Bulgarian:уволня́вам (bg) impf ( uvolnjávam ) Catalan:acomiadar (ca) ,fer fora Chinese:Mandarin:解雇 (zh) ( jiěgù ) ,開除 / 开除 (zh) ( kāichú ) Czech:vyhodit (cs) Danish:fyre afskedige fritstille Dutch:ontslaan (nl) Esperanto:maldungi Finnish:erottaa (fi) ,antaa potkut irtisanoa (fi) French:licencier (fr) ,congédier (fr) ,mettre à la porte (fr) ,limoger (fr) ,virer (fr) ,lourder (fr) Galician:despedir (gl) ,chimpar Georgian:გაგდება ( gagdeba ) ,დათხოვნა ( datxovna ) ,გაშვება ( gašveba ) German:feuern (de) ,kündigen (de) Greek:απολύω (el) ( apolýo ) Hebrew:פיטר ( pitér ) Hungarian:kirúg (hu) Icelandic:reka (is) ,segja upp sparka (is) Indonesian:pecat (id) Italian:licenziare (it) ,dimettere (it) Japanese:首にする ( kubi ni suru ) ,解雇する (ja) ( かいこする, kaiko suru ) ,首を切る ( くびをきる, kubi o kiru ) Kapampangan:sisanti Khmer:បណ្ដេញចេញពីការងារ ( bɑndəɲ cəɲ pii kaaŋie ) ,ផ្លាស់ចេញពីមុខការ ( plah cəɲ pii muk kaa ) ,ដកងារ ( dɑɑk ŋie ) ,បញ្ឈប់ (km) ( bɑɲcʰup ) Korean:해고(解雇)하다 (ko) ( haegohada ) Lao:ໄລ່ອອກ ( aik ) Latvian:atlaist Lü:ᦺᦟᦀᦸᧅ ( lay˙ʼoak ) Macedonian:отпушта ( otpušta ) Maori:pana Mongolian:огцруулах (mn) ( ogcruulax ) Northern Thai:ᩃᩱ᩵ᩋᩬᨠ Norwegian:gi sparken sparke (no) ,avskjedige (no) Polish:zwolnić (pl) pf zwalniać (pl) impf ( colloquial ) wylać (pl) pf wylewać (pl) impf Portuguese:despedir (pt) ,demitir (pt) Russian:увольня́ть (ru) impf ( uvolʹnjátʹ ) ,уво́лить (ru) pf ( uvólitʹ ) Shan:လႆႇဢွၵ်ႇ ( lài ʼàuk ) Slovak:vyhodiť vyhadzovať Slovene:odpustiti Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:gódy daś Spanish:despedir (es) ,echar (es) ,licenciar (es) ,correr (es) ( Mexico, colloquial ) ,cesantear (es) ( Argentina, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela ) ,descharchar (es) ,expulsar (es) Swahili:kupiga risasi moto (sw) Swedish:sparka (sv) ( informal ) ,avskeda (sv) Tagalog:sesante Telugu:ఉద్యోగం నుండి తొలగించు ( udyōgaṁ nuṇḍi tolagiñcu ) Thai:ไล่ออก (th) ( lâi-ɔ̀ɔk ) Turkish:kovmak (tr) ,işten atmak Ukrainian:звільня́ти impf ( zvilʹnjáty ) ,звільни́ти pf ( zvilʹnýty ) Vietnamese:sa thải (vi) ,đuổi việc Welsh:diswyddo (cy) West Frisian:dien jaan Yiddish:אָפּזאָגן ( opzogn )
transitive: to shoot
Afrikaans:vuur (af) Armenian:կրակել (hy) ( krakel ) Belarusian:страля́ць impf ( straljácʹ ) ,стрэ́ліць pf ( strélicʹ ) Bulgarian:стрелям (bg) ( streljam ) Catalan:disparar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:發射 / 发射 (zh) ( fāshè ) Czech:střílet (cs) Danish:affyre Dutch:afvuren (nl) Finnish:laukaista (fi) ,ampua (fi) ,tulittaa (fi) French:tirer (fr) ,faire feu (fr) Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:abfeuern (de) Hebrew:ירה (he) ( yaráh ) Hindi:बजाना (hi) ( bajānā ) Hungarian:elsüt (hu) Indonesian:menembak (id) Irish:scaoil Italian:sparare (it) ,fare fuoco Japanese:発砲する (ja) ( はっぽうする, happōsuru ) ,撃つ (ja) ( utsu ) Korean:발포(發砲)하다 (ko) ( balpohada ) ,발사(發射)하다 (ko) ( balsahada ) Latvian:šaut Lithuanian:šauti (lt) ,šaudyti Maori:pupuhi taipara whakapākūkū ( repeatedly ) Norwegian:avfyre (no) Polish:strzelać (pl) impf strzelić (pl) pf bić (pl) impf Portuguese:disparar (pt) ,atirar (pt) Russian:стреля́ть (ru) impf ( streljátʹ ) ,вы́стрелить (ru) pf ( výstrelitʹ ) ,пали́ть (ru) ( palítʹ ) ( obsolete ) Slovene:ustreliti (sl) ,streljati (sl) Spanish:disparar (es) ,tirar (es) Swahili:kupiga risasi moto (sw) Swedish:skjuta (sv) Telugu:కాల్చు (te) ( kālcu ) Thai:ยิง (th) ( ying ) Ukrainian:стріля́ти impf ( striljáty ) Welsh:saethu (cy) ,tanio (cy) West Frisian:sjitte
intransitive: to shoot
Armenian:կրակել (hy) ( krakel ) Belarusian:страля́ць impf ( straljácʹ ) ,стрэ́ліць pf ( strélicʹ ) Bulgarian:стрелям (bg) ( streljam ) Catalan:disparar (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:開火 / 开火 (zh) ( kāihuǒ ) ,射擊 / 射击 (zh) ( shèjī, shèjí ) Czech:vystřelit (cs) Danish:fyre skyde (da) Dutch:vuren (nl) ,schieten (nl) Finnish:tulittaa (fi) ,ampua (fi) French:tirer (fr) ,faire feu (fr) Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:feuern (de) ,schießen (de) Hebrew:ירה (he) ( yaráh ) Hungarian:tüzel (hu) Indonesian:tembak (id) Ingrian:ampua paukuttaa Italian:sparare (it) ,fare fuoco Japanese:発射する (ja) ( はっしゃする, hassha suru ) ,撃つ (ja) ( utsu ) Korean:발포(發砲)하다 (ko) ( balpohada ) ,발사(發射)하다 (ko) ( balsahada ) Macedonian:пука ( puka ) Maori:pupuhi Norwegian:Bokmål:fyre (no) ,avfyre (no) Nynorsk:fyre avfyre Portuguese:disparar (pt) Russian:стреля́ть (ru) impf ( streljátʹ ) ,вы́стрелить (ru) pf ( výstrelitʹ ) Slovak:páliť strieľať vystreliť Slovene:ustreliti (sl) ,streljati (sl) Spanish:disparar (es) ,descargar (es) Swahili:moto (sw) Swedish:avfyra (sv) ,ge eld (sv) Thai:ยิง (th) ( ying ) Turkish:ateş etmek (tr) Ukrainian:стріля́ти impf ( striljáty ) Welsh:saethu (cy) ,tanio (cy) West Frisian:sjitte
sport: to shoot, to attempt to score a goal
physiology: to cause action potential in a cell
computer sciences, software engineering: to initiate an event
to inflame; to irritate, as the passions
to animate; to give life or spirit to
to light up as if by fire
to catch fire; to be kindled
to be irritated or inflamed with passion
Translations to be checked
fire
Command toshoot withfirearms .While this term is commonly used in archery in modern-day contexts, this is technically incorrect. The correct term in archery isloose
fire
third-person singular present indicative offirir FromMiddle High German vürhin fürhin fia hi German fürhin Alemannic German füre
fire
ahead ,forward ( direction away from the speaker ) Se sanfire gångan. ―They went ahead. Bavarian adverbs of direction come in pairs: endings in -i or -e denote direction away from the speaker (akin tohi her
fire
shrinkage ,loss scrap FromOld Norse fjórir Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres ( “ four ” ) .
fire
four In compounds:fir- .
FromMiddle Low German fīren French virer ( “ bear, veer ” ) .
fire (imperative fir infinitive atfire ,present tense firer past tense firede perfect tense harfiret )
tolower something fixed to a rope or something similar1871 Lappisk Mythologi , page138 :Saa gik han hen ogfirede Stenen og Vidietouget ned i Hullet. Then he went [to the hole] andlowered the rock and the wicker rope down into the hole. 2014 Diget , Tellerup A/S,→ISBN Han satte sig på knæ, famlede sig frem til tovet og vendte sig rundt så han havde ryggen til hullet, drejede overkroppen bagud,firede faklen ned i hullet. He kneeled, fumbled his way to the rope and turned around, such that his back was to the hole, twisted his torso backwards,lowered the torch into the hole. Conjugation offire participle present - past firet have gerund —
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second-person singular imperative offerir requests for verification (+ ) with the reason: “was the infinitive ever used in Italian? If not let's keep these forms only underessere . If kept forms should maybe be put as present, thoughfieno andfie are not inherited fromfiunt /fit , they are reanalyzable as present.”If it cannot be verified that this term meets ourattestation criteria , it will be deleted. Feel free to edit this entry as normal, but do not remove{{rfv }} until the request has been resolved.
FromVulgar Latin *fīre , fromLatin fīerī ( “ to become, be ” ) . CompareRomanian fi
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 )
( archaic , poetic , northern Italy ) become ;( in a future sense ) to beSynonym: essere The only 3rd-person forms attested outside of old Northern Italian literature are morphologically and historically future (and/or subjunctive); they were used suppletively for future indicative forms ofessere
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 fìero fìaro conditional — — — — — — 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 — — — — —
fire in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia ItalianaFromDanish fire Old Norse fjórir Proto-Germanic *fedwōr *kʷetwṓr Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
fire
four FromFrench virer Middle Low German firen
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
toslacken ,ease tolower ( a flag ) “fire” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromDanish fire Old Norse fjórir Proto-Germanic *fedwōr *kʷetwṓr Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
fire
four FromFrench virer Middle Low German firen
fire
toslacken ,ease tolower ( e.g. a flag ) “fire” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .fire n
plural offir Fromfi -re
fire f plural firi
essence ,substance ,nature Synonym: natură character ,temper ,disposition Synonyms: caracter temperament mind Synonym: minte Borrowed fromGreek Φύρα ( Fýra ) .
fire (definite accusative fireyi plural fireler
wastage outage shrinkage ,loss , loss in weight,decrease turnover ullage leakage waste ,tret ,deficiency 
