FIRE

noun fires · fier · 🜂

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. But to me it was not despicable; I said, "Oh, you fire, I love you, you dainty pink creature, for you are beautiful—and that is enough!" and was going to gather it to my breast.
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.
4. uncountable The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
5. UK, countable 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, slang A firearm. I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below
10. countable, figuratively A barrage, volley 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.
11. countable, uncountable An instance of firing one or more rocket engines. static fire
12. countable, uncountable Strength of passion, whether love or hate. He had fire in his temper.
13. countable, uncountable Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm. And bless their critic with a poet's fire.
14. countable, uncountable Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star. Stars, hide your fires.
15. countable, uncountable A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
16. countable, uncountable Red coloration in a piece of opal.
17. countable, uncountable 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. 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

Similar: blaze, flame, conflagration, inferno

adjective fye · fier · 🜂

1. not comparable, predicative, slang Amazing; excellent. This is fire, keep up the amazing work!

verb fires · firing · fired · fire

1. transitive To set (something, often a building) on fire. ["]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 h
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.
3. transitive To drive away by setting a fire. Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
4. transitive To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance). The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’[…].
5. broadly, transitive To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client. 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.
6. transitive To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device). We will fire our guns at the enemy.
7. intransitive To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
8. To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust. The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
9. transitive To set off an explosive in a mine. `Now are you both ready?' I said, as people do when they are going to fire a mine.
10. transitive To shoot; to attempt to score a goal. Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.
11. intransitive 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. ambitransitive To initiate an event (by means of an event handler). The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.
14. transitive To inflame; to irritate, as the passions. to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
15. dated, intransitive To be irritated or inflamed with passion. 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. […]
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. [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
19. transitive To cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body).
20. dated, intransitive To catch fire; to be kindled.
21. dated, intransitive To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train. I fired on that train until August.
22. slang, usually To start (an engine).
23. intransitive Of a horse: to race ahead with a burst of energy. 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.
24. slang To begin cooking an order.

interjection

1. Command to shoot with firearms.

noun

1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of financial independence and retire early.financial independence and retire early
2. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of finance, insurance and real estate, a class of businesses.finance As Figure 2.1 demonstrates, total income acquired by the finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sector has been increasing since the early 1980s. While in the 1952–1980 period, the share of national income that went to the FIRE sector hovered between 12 and 14 percent, by the 2000s it had approac

proper noun

1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): a non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the aim of protecting free speech rights on college campuses in the United States.Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression “President Trump may believe he has the power to revise the First Amendment with the stroke of a pen, but he doesn’t,” the free speech advocacy group FIRE said in a statement.