What is the meaning of fire?

noun

• The event of something burning (often destructive. )
  • usage: "they lost everything in the fire"
• The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy.
  • usage: "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
  • synonyms: firing
• The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke.
  • usage: "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
  • synonyms: flame, flaming
• A fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "he spoke with great ardor"
  • synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fervidness
• Fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking.
  • usage: "put the kettle on the fire"; "barbecue over an open fire"
• A severe trial.
  • usage: "he went through fire and damnation"
• Intense adverse criticism.
  • usage: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
  • synonyms: attack, flak, flack, blast

verb

• Start firing a weapon.
  • synonyms: open fire
• Cause to go off.
  • usage: "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
  • synonyms: discharge
• Bake in a kiln so as to harden.
  • usage: "fire pottery"
• Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
  • usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
  • synonyms: displace, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
• Go off or discharge.
  • usage: "The gun fired"
  • synonyms: discharge, go off
• Drive out or away by or as if by fire.
  • usage: "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
• Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses. )
  • usage: "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
  • synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, raise, provoke
• Destroy by fire.
  • usage: "They burned the house and his diaries"
  • synonyms: burn, burn down
• Provide with fuel.
  • usage: "Oil fires the furnace"
  • synonyms: fuel