vire
English
Etymology
From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.
Noun
vire (plural vires)
- An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
Verb
vire (third-person singular simple present vir, present participle ing, simple past and past participle vired)
- 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!
- 1996, Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
Finnish
Etymology
Related to viri, Estonian vire, Karelian viri and Votic vire.
Noun
vire
- A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.
- A shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom).
- (music) The state or condition of being correctly tuned; tune.
- Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä.
- Finally this piano is in tune.
- Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä.
- (music) The overall pitch an instrument is tuned to, relative to a standard frequency; tuning.
- Ääninäytteiden vire on 442 Hz.
- The tuning in the sound samples is 442 Hz.
- Ääninäytteiden vire on 442 Hz.
Declension
Inflection of vire (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | vire | vireet | ||
genitive | vireen | vireiden vireitten | ||
partitive | virettä | vireitä | ||
illative | vireeseen | vireisiin vireihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | vire | vireet | ||
accusative | nom. | vire | vireet | |
gen. | vireen | |||
genitive | vireen | vireiden vireitten | ||
partitive | virettä | vireitä | ||
inessive | vireessä | vireissä | ||
elative | vireestä | vireistä | ||
illative | vireeseen | vireisiin vireihin | ||
adessive | vireellä | vireillä | ||
ablative | vireeltä | vireiltä | ||
allative | vireelle | vireille | ||
essive | vireenä | vireinä | ||
translative | vireeksi | vireiksi | ||
abessive | vireettä | vireittä | ||
instructive | — | virein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (light breeze): tuulenvire
- (weaving): viriö
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
vire
- first-person singular present indicative of virer
- third-person singular present indicative of virer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of virer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of virer
- second-person singular imperative of virer
Noun
vire f (plural vires)
- (Switzerland) A small ledge on the side of a mountain
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
vire
- first-person singular present subjunctive of virar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of virar
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) virē
Portuguese
Verb
vire
- first-person singular present subjunctive of virar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of virar
- third-person singular imperative of virar
Spanish
Verb
vire
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