fire

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfaɪ.ə/|[ˈfaɪ̯ə]    美 /ˈfaɪ.ɚ/|[ˈfa̠jɚ]|/ˈfaɪɹ/|[fʌɪ̯ɚ]|[ˈfäːɚ]|/ˈfaɪ.ə/|[ˈfɑe̯ə]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
  2. 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). countable
    — We sat about the fire singing songs and telling tales.
  3. The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger. countable
    — There was a fire at the school last night and the whole place burned down.
  4. The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy. uncountable
  5. A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire). UK,countable
  6. The elements necessary to start a fire. countable
    — The fire was laid and needed to be lit.
  7. The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon. uncountable
    — The fire from the enemy guns kept us from attacking.
  8. A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such. countable
    — We dominated the battlespace with our fires.
  9. A firearm. countable,slang
    — I used to work at Five Below but now I keep that fire below
  10. A barrage, volley countable,figuratively
    — 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. An instance of firing one or more rocket engines. countable,uncountable
    — static fire
  12. Strength of passion, whether love or hate. countable,uncountable
    — He had fire in his temper.
  13. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm. countable,uncountable
    — And bless their critic with a poet's fire.
  14. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star. countable,uncountable
    — Stars, hide your fires.
  15. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking. countable,uncountable
  16. Red coloration in a piece of opal. countable,uncountable
  17. 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. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To set (something, often a building) on fire. transitive
    — ["]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.["]
  2. To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. transitive
    — If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
  3. To drive away by setting a fire. transitive
    — Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
  4. To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance). transitive
    — The first, obvious choice was hysterical and fantastic Blanche – had there not been her timidity, her fear of being ‘fired’[…].
  5. To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client. broadly,transitive
    — 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. To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device). transitive
    — We will fire our guns at the enemy.
  7. To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon. intransitive
    — 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. To set off an explosive in a mine. transitive
    — `Now are you both ready?' I said, as people do when they are going to fire a mine.
  10. To shoot; to attempt to score a goal. transitive
    — Andrey Arshavin equalised with a superb volley into the corner before Nicklas Bendtner coolly fired Arsenal in front.
  11. To cause an action potential in a cell. intransitive
    — When a neuron fires, it transmits information.
  12. To forcibly direct (something). transitive
    — He answered the questions the reporters fired at him.
  13. To initiate an event (by means of an event handler). ambitransitive
    — The event handler should only fire after all web page content has finished loading.
  14. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions. transitive
    — to fire the soul with anger, pride, or revenge
  15. To be irritated or inflamed with passion. dated,intransitive
    — 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. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate. transitive
    — [The sun] fires the proud tops of the eastern pines.
  19. To cauterize (a horse, or a part of its body). transitive
  20. To catch fire; to be kindled. dated,intransitive
  21. To work as a fireman, one who keeps the fire under a steam boiler on a steam-powered ship or train. dated,intransitive
    — I fired on that train until August.
  22. To start (an engine). slang,usually
  23. Of a horse: to race ahead with a burst of energy. intransitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Amazing; excellent. not-comparable,predicative,slang
    — This is fire, keep up the amazing work!
感叹词 intj.
  1. Command to shoot with firearms.

词形变化

fires plural fier alternative,archaic 🜂 alternative fye alternative,Internet,nonstandard fier alternative,archaic 🜂 alternative fires present,singular,third-person firing participle,present fired participle,past fired past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template fire infinitive fire first-person,present,singular fired first-person,past,singular fire present,second-person,singular firest archaic,present,second-person,singular fired past,second-person,singular firedst archaic,past,second-person,singular fires present,singular,third-person fireth archaic,present,singular,third-person fired past,singular,third-person fire plural,present fired past,plural fire present,subjunctive fired past,subjunctive fire imperative,present - imperative,past firing participle,present fired participle,past

词汇关系

近义词
blaze flame conflagration inferno
衍生词
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 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

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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”).
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