vire

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

vire (plural vires)

1. An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.

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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, iver, rive, vier

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪrɛ]

vire

1. vocative singular of vir

Related to viri, Estonian vire, Karelian viri and Votic vire.

vire

1. A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.
2. A shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom).
3. (music) The state or condition of being correctly tuned; tune.

   Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä.

   Finally this piano is in tune.

4. (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.

• (light breeze): tuulenvire
• (weaving): viriö

• olla vireessä
• olla vireillä

• revi, rive, veri

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vire

1. first-person singular present indicative of virer
2. third-person singular present indicative of virer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of virer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of virer
5. second-person singular imperative of virer

• ivre
• rive, rivé

vire

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

virē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vireō

vire

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

vire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of virar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of virar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of virar.