fire

Plural: fires

Noun

• the event of something burning (often destructive)
  • "they lost everything in the fire"
• the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
  • "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"
  • "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
  • "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
• a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning
  • "they sat by the fire and talked"
• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
• feelings of great warmth and intensity
• fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking
  • "put the kettle on the fire"
  • "barbecue over an open fire"
• a severe trial
  • "he went through fire and damnation"
• intense adverse criticism
  • "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"
• 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.
• 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).
• The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
• A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• The elements necessary to start a fire.
• The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
• A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
• A firearm.
• A barrage, volley
• An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
• Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
• Red coloration in a piece of opal.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: fired, firing, fires

• To discharge a projectile from a gun or similar weapon.
• start firing a weapon
• cause to go off
  • "fire a gun"
  • "fire a bullet"
• bake in a kiln so as to harden
  • "fire pottery"
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
  • "The boss fired his secretary today"
• go off or discharge
  • "The gun fired"
• drive out or away by or as if by fire
  • "The soldiers were fired"
  • "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
• destroy by fire
• provide with fuel
  • "Oil fires the furnace"
• To set (something, often a building) on fire.
• To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• To drive away by setting a fire.
• To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).
• To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
• To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
• To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
• To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
• To set off an explosive in a mine.
• To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• To cause an action potential in a cell.
• To forcibly direct (something).
• To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• To feed or serve the fire of.
• To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• To cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body).
• To catch fire; to be kindled.
• To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train.
• To start (an engine).
• Of a horse: to race ahead with a burst of energy.

Adj

• Amazing; excellent.

Intj

• Command to shoot with firearms.

Examples

• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
• During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.
• He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
• He fired his radar gun at passing cars.
• I fired on that train until August.
• If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
• static fire
• The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.
• The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
• The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
• The jet fired a salvo of rockets at the truck convoy.
• The queue fires a job whenever the thread pool is ready to handle it.
• The RCS thrusters fired several times to stabilize the tumbling spacecraft.
• There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.
• They fire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.
• This is fire, keep up the amazing work!
• to fire a boiler
• to fire the genius of a young man
• to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
• We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
• We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.
• We will fire our guns at the enemy.
• When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
• With a powerful play, he managed to fire off a seven-letter word, clearing his rack.

Synonyms

ardor, ardour, arouse, attack, blast, burn, burn down, can, discharge, dismiss, displace, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, firing, flack, flak, flame, flaming, force out, fuel, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, go off, kindle, open fire, provoke, raise, sack, send away, terminate, abet, actuate, alight, animate, awaken, axe, beghast, belight, beshine, blaze, bright, brighten, bring about, catch fire, catch on fire, cheer, combust, conflagrate, conflagration, decruit, dehire, discard, downsize, drive, egg on, electrify, encourage, energize, enflame, engender, enlighten, enliven, enthrill, enthuse, exagitate, exalt, excite, exhilarate, exsuscitate, fillip, fire, fire the blood, fire up, foment, galvanize, gin up, ginger, ginger up, give someone the boot, give someone the heave-ho, give someone the old heave-ho, give someone their cards, give the boot, give the chop, give the elbow, go up in flames, go up in smoke, goad, grill, ignite, illume, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, impel, incite, induce, inferno, inflame, inspire, inspirit, instigate, intoxicate, invigorate, invoke, irradiate, jazz, lash, lay off, let go, let off, let someone go, light, light up, lighten, liven, liven up, loose, luster, lustrate, make redundant, motivate, motive, move, obligate, oblige, perk up, pink slip, promote, promote to customer, prompt, propel, push, quicken, retrench, rouse, send, serve notice, set ablaze, set afire, set aflame, set alight, set fire, set fire to, set off, set on fire, sharpen, shed light on, shit-can, shoot, spark off, spice, spice up, spunk, spur, spur on, stimulate, sting, stir, stir the blood, stir up, stoke, suscitate, take fire, tempt, term, thrill, throw, throw out, torch, unhire, urge, vitalise, wake, warm the blood, whet, whip up, wind up, work up, yerk

Antonyms

hire

Related Words

FIREABLE

Anagrams of fire