vire

From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.

• IPA^(key): /vaɪə(ɹ)/

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vire (third-person singular simple present vires, present participle viring, simple past and past participle vired)

1. to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
   • 1996, Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education:

     For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.

   • 2005, House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report:

     Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.

   • 2012, David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services:

     Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!

• Iver, Rive, iver, rive, vier

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪrɛ]

vire

1. vocative singular of vir

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋireˣ/, [ˈʋire̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧re

vireä +‎ -e

vire

1. form, condition (especially emotionally and/or mentally)

   Olen hyvässä vireessä. ― I'm in great form. / I'm doing great. / I'm on a roll.

2. shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom)

   Synonym: viriö

3. (music) tune (the state or condition of being correctly tuned)

   Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä. ― Finally this piano is in tune.

4. (music) tuning (the overall pitch an instrument is tuned to, relative to a standard frequency)

   Ääninäytteiden vire on 442 Hz. ― The tuning in the sound samples is 442 Hz.

• olla vireessä
• olla vireillä

viri +‎ -e. Cognate with Estonian vire. Karelian vire and Votic vire.

vire

1. A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.

   Synonym: tuulenvire

• revi, rive, veri

• IPA^(key): /viʁ/
• Homophones: virent, vires

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deverbal of virer

vire f (plural vires)

1. (Switzerland) a small ledge on the side of a mountain

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vire

1. inflection of virer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “vire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ivre, rive, rivé

vire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of virar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of virar

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.reː/, [ˈu̯ɪreː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.re/, [ˈviːre]

virē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vireō

vire

1. an arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:

     a vire,
     Which flieth out of a mighty bowe

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vire

1. inflection of virar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾe/ [ˈbi.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -iɾe
• Syllabification: vi‧re

vire

1. inflection of virar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *virek.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvire/, [ˈvire]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: vi‧re

vire

1. light breeze
2. ripple

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “vire”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn

• vier

From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr, from Proto-West Germanic *fuir.

vire

1. fire

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 75