different between virge vs vire

English

Noun

virge (plural virges)

1. (obsolete) A wand.

Anagrams

• Viger, giver

Old French

Adjective

virge m (oblique and nominative feminine singular virge)

1. Alternative form of verge (virgin)

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??(?)/

Noun

vire (plural vires)

1. 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 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!

Anagrams

• Iver, iver, rive, vier

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?r?]

Noun

vire

1. vocative singular of vir

Finnish

Etymology

viri +? -e. Related to Estonian vire and Votic vire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ire/, [??ire?]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Syllabification: vi?re

Noun

vire

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

   Synonym: tuulenvire

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

   Synonym: viriö

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

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

Declension

Derived terms

• olla vireessä
• olla vireillä

Anagrams

• revi, rive, veri

French

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

deverbal of virer

Noun

vire f (plural vires)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vire

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

Anagrams

• ivre, rive, rivé

Galician

Verb

vire

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.re?/, [?u???e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.re/, [?vi???]

Verb

vir?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vire?

Portuguese

Verb

vire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of virar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of virar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of virar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of virar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?e/, [?bi.?e]

Verb

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.