fire
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
alchemy
astronautics
business
computer-sciences
computing
engineering
farriery
gemology
geography
geology
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
human-sciences
jewelry
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
mining
natural-sciences
pets
philosophy
physical-sciences
physiology
pseudoscience
racing
sciences
software
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English 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.
Cognates
See also Scots 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, and Swedish fyr (“fire”), Icelandic funi (“fire”), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌽 (fōn, “fire”). Also, compare Armenian 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/B por/puwar (“fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.
Inflected forms:
form: fires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: 🜂
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fye
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Internet
nonstandard
form: fier
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: 🜂
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: firing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: fire
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: fire
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: fire
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: firest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: firedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: fires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fireth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: fire
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: fire
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: fire
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: firing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
gloss: The elements necessary to start a fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
gloss: The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
gloss: A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
gloss: A firearm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below
gloss: A barrage, volley
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: static fire
gloss: Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had fire in his temper.
You call it hope—that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire: […]
gloss: Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And bless their critic with a poet's fire.
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.
gloss: Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stars, hide your fires.
As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.
gloss: A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Red coloration in a piece of opal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The capacity of a gemstone, especially a faceted, cut gemstone, that is transparent to visible light, to disperse white light into its multispectral component parts, resulting in a flash of different colors, the richness and dispersion of which increases the gemstone's value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 of fire—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.
gloss: Amazing; excellent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
predicative
slang
examples: This is fire, keep up the amazing work!
gloss: To set (something, often a building) on fire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ["]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.["]
That lamp was the mummy of a woman tied to a stout stake let into the rock, and he had fired her hair.
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.
gloss: To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To drive away by setting a fire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
gloss: To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’[…].
gloss: To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
pos: verb
examples: The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
gloss: To set off an explosive in a mine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: `Now are you both ready?' I said, as people do when they are going to fire a mine.
gloss: To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.
gloss: To cause an action potential in a cell.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
gloss: To forcibly direct (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
gloss: To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
gloss: To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: 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. […]
Love had fired my mind.
gloss: To animate; to give life or spirit to.
pos: verb
examples: to fire the genius of a young man
gloss: To feed or serve the fire of.
pos: verb
examples: to fire a boiler
Driver G. A. Rowett, of the North Eastern Region's Neville Hill shed, now joined the locomotive as pilotman, and actually took over the regulator, Fireman Wheddon continuing to fire.
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.
gloss: To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
gloss: To cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To catch fire; to be kindled.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: I fired on that train until August.
gloss: To start (an engine).
pos: verb
tags: slang
usually
gloss: Of a horse: to race ahead with a burst of energy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'd say he struggled to get around the course. He never fired. In other years, when Buzzy Hannum rode him, he ran well enough to win, but not this time.
gloss: Command to shoot with firearms.
pos: intj
Synonyms: blaze
flame
conflagration
inferno
Derived words: 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
bumpfire
bump fire
bushfire
bush fire
Byzantine fire
call the fire department
camp fire
campfire
catch fire
catch on fire
cease fire
cease-fire
ceasefire
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 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
fire blast
fireblast
fire blight
fire blindness
fire block
fireboard
fire-board
fire board
fireboat
firebolt
firebomb
fire boss
fire-bote
firebote
fire box
firebox
fireboy
firebrand
firebrass
firebrat
firebreak
fire break
fire-breather
firebreather
fire breathing
fire-breathing
firebreathing
fire brick
firebrick
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
fire-cure
firedamp
fire damper
firedamper
fire dancer
fire department
fire devil
fire-devil
firedevil
fire diamond
fire dog
fire dogs
fire door
firedoor
firedragon
firedrake
fire drill
firee
fire-eater
fire eater
fireeater
fire eating
fire eel
fire engine
fire engine red
fire escape
fire-escape knot
fire exit
fire extinguisher
fire-eye
fire-eyed diucon
firefall
firefan
fire fan
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
fire grouse
fire guard
fireguard
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
firepit
fire pit
fireplace
fire-place
fire plant
fireplay
fire-plough
fireplug
fire point
firepole
fire pole
fire police
firepot
firepower
fire-power
fire practice
fire-proof
fireproof
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 on fire
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
raking fire
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 away
coal-fired
coalfired
fire at will
fire in anger
fire off
fire the starting gun
fire up
firing
gas-firing
get someone's neurons firing
hang fire
oil-fired
overfired
overfire
over-fire
ready, aim, fire
ready, fire, aim
ripple-fire
slamfire
stoker-fired
underfire
underfired
unfirable
you're fired
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: udløse
lang: Finnish
word: laukaista
lang: German
word: auslösen
lang: Slovak
word: spustiť