fire | Lernwerd

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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.
- Where there is smoke, there is fire.
- Did you hear about the fire yesterday?
- Don't use the elevator if there's a fire.
2.The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
- Where there is smoke, there is fire.
- Did you hear about the fire yesterday?
- Don't use the elevator if there's a fire.
3.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.
- 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.
4.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.
- During hot and dry summers many fires in forests are caused by regardlessly discarded cigarette butts.

1.To set (something, often a building) on fire.
- That lamp was the mummy of a woman tied to a stout stake let into the rock, and he had fired her hair.
2.To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- They fire the wood to make it easier to put a point on the end.
- If you fire the pottery at too high a temperature, it may crack.
3.To drive away by setting a fire.
- Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥

Proto-Germanic *fōr

Proto-West Germanic *fuir

Old English fȳr

Middle English fyr

English fire