Definitions of fire:

• noun:   the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

  Example: "Hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"

• noun:   a fireplace in which a fire is burning

  Example: "They sat by the fire and talked"

• noun:   intense adverse criticism

  Example: "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"

• noun:   the event of something burning (often destructive)

  Example: "They lost everything in the fire"

• noun:   a severe trial

  Example: "He went through fire and damnation"

• noun:   the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

  Example: "Fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

• noun:   once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
• noun:   feelings of great warmth and intensity
• verb:   terminate the employment of

  Example: "The boss fired his secretary today"

• verb:   bake in a kiln so as to harden

  Example: "Fire pottery"

• verb:   cause to go off

  Example: "Fire a gun"

• verb:   go off or discharge

  Example: "The gun fired"

• verb:   drive out or away by or as if by fire

  Example: "The soldiers were fired"

• verb:   provide with fuel

  Example: "Oil fires the furnace"

• verb:   destroy by fire
• verb:   start firing a weapon
• verb:   call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
• name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #57287)