fire

third-person singular present indicative of firir


fire

Se san fire gångan.

ahead, forward (direction away from the speaker)

From Middle High German vürhin, fürhin, equivalent to fia + hi. Compare archaic German fürhin and Alemannic German füre.


fire

From Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).


fire

Saa gik han hen og firede Stenen og Vidietouget ned i Hullet.

1871, Jens Andreas Friis, Lappisk Mythologi, page 138:

Then he went [to the hole] and lowered the rock and the wicker rope down into the hole.

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.

2014, Teddy Vork, Diget, Tellerup A/S, →ISBN:

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.

to lower something fixed to a rope or something similar

head

fire (imperative fir, infinitive at fire, present tense firer, past tense firede, perfect tense har firet)

fir (imperative)
at fire (infinitive)
firer (present)
firede (past)
har firet (perfect)
firer (present)
firede (past)
har firet (perfect present)
havde firet (past perfect)
fires (passive present)
firedes (passive past)
firet (participle past)
fir (imperative present)
fire (infinitive present)
have (auxiliary present)

From Middle Low German fīren, from French virer (“bear, veer”).


fire

(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.

We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.

We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(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).

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.

Efforts to fight the fires in New South Wales and Victoria were hampered as large fires converged and created their own violent weather systems. The fire created dry lightning storms so severe that planes had to be grounded.

2020 January 1, Bernard Lagan, “Thousands flee to beaches as the flames close in”, in The Times, number 73,044, page 24:

(countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.

(uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.

(countable, British) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).

The fire was laid and needed to be lit.

(countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.

The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.

(uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.

We dominated the battlespace with our fires.

(countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.

I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below

2023 June 23, “Special K” (track 7), in BLP Kosher (lyrics), Bars Mitzva, 2:01:

(countable, African-American Vernacular, slang) A firearm.

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 a fire of jokes.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 136:

(countable, figurative) A barrage, volley

static fire

(astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.

He had fire in his temper.

1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Sheldonian] Theater, →OCLC:

You call it hope—that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire: […]

1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

Strength of passion, whether love or hate.

And bless their critic with a poet's fire.

1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:

Attendance of QN meetings has been dwindling, and the creative fire drained from the organization by the dead hand of wannabe bureaucrats bend ^([sic]) on thought control. The action has long since been elsewhere.

1991 December 15, Michael Halberstadt, “Queer Proposals?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 5:

Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.

Stars, hide your fires.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.

1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.

A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.

en-noun

fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)

pull someone's chestnuts out of 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

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

→ Japanese: ファイヤー (faiyā)

Sranan Tongo: faya

վառարան

heater or stove used in place of real fire

From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.
See also Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr. Also, compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.


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["]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." / "You fired the house!" exclaimed Kemp. / "Fired the house. It was the only way to cover my trail – and no doubt it was insured.["]

1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “At the House in Great Portland Street”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 186:

That lamp was the mummy of a woman tied to a stout stake let into the rock, and he had fired her hair.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →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 was fired by the Mercenaries under orders from their chiefs.

1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

(transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.

To set (something, often a building) on fire.

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.

So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

(transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.

Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 144”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

(transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.

The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’[…].

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 226:

(transitive, employment) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).

Don't be hesitant to fire 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.

1979, Richard Collins Rea, Operating a Successful Accounting Practice: A Collection of Material from the Journal of Accountancy Practitioners Forum, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 288:

Maintaining a collegial attitude even when doing the more difficult business work, like firing a client, is another part. If you are struggling through the relationship, the client might be struggling as well, so firing them may be mutually beneficial, and you should try and do it on the best of terms.

2020, Rebecca Migdal, Museum Mercenary: A Handbook for Independent Museum Professionals, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 278:

(transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.

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.

(transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

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 shore fired at them.

1989, Dolores Zen, transl., Last Chance in Manchuria, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 93:

(intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.

To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.

The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.

(astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.

To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.

`Now are you both ready?' I said, as people do when they are going to fire a mine.

(transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.

Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.

2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

(transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.

When a neuron fires, it transmits information.

(intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.

He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.

(transitive) To forcibly direct (something).

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, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).

to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge

(transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.

To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.

Inexperienced girl as I was, I fired 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. […]

1864, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas:

Love had fired my mind.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

To be irritated or inflamed with passion.

to fire the genius of a young man

to fire a boiler

We left with the "Blue Train", dead on time. This time I fired all the way. […] The next day took me home again on No. E.16 with Henri Dutertre. I fired from Paris to Calais.

1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 150, 151:

[The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

(transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.

(intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.

I fired on that train until August.

(intransitive, dated) To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train.

(slang, usually with "up") To start (an engine).

en-verb

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

fires (present singular third-person)
firing (participle present)
fired (participle past)
fired (past)
fire (infinitive)

стрелям

sport: to shoot, to attempt to score a goal

afgaan

physiology: to cause action potential in a cell

udløse

computer sciences, software engineering: to initiate an event

sytyttää

to inflame; to irritate, as the passions

gløde

to be irritated or inflamed with passion

From Middle English firen, fyren, furen, from Old English fȳrian (“to make a fire”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with Old 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

second-person singular imperative of ferir


fire

it-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)

fìre (canonical)
fìa (future singular third-person)
fìe (future singular third-person)
fìre (infinitive)
fìa (future indicative singular third-person)
fìe (future indicative singular third-person)
fìano (future indicative plural third-person)
fìeno (future indicative plural third-person)

From Vulgar Latin *fīre, from Latin fīerī (“become, be”). Compare Romanian fi.


fire

From Danish fire, Old Norse fjórir, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from *kʷetwṓr, the neuter form of Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.


fire

head

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)

fir (imperative)
firer (present)
fires (passive)
fira (past)
firet (past)
firte (past)
fira (participle past)
firet (participle past)
firt (participle past)
firende (participle present)

From French virer, via Middle Low German firen.


fire

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


fire

shrinkage, loss, loss in weight, decrease

fire (definite accusative fireyi, plural fireler)

fireyi (accusative definite)
fireler (plural)
fire (nominative singular)
fireler (nominative plural)
fireyi (accusative definite singular)
fireleri (accusative definite plural)
fireye (dative singular)
firelere (dative plural)
firede (locative singular)
firelerde (locative plural)
fireden (ablative singular)
firelerden (ablative plural)
firenin (genitive singular)
firelerin (genitive plural)