Meaning of "mire" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MIRE

From Old Norse mӯrr; related to moss.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF MIRE

mire  [maɪə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MIRE

Mire is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mire in English.

WHAT DOES MIRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mire

A mire or quagmire, sometimes called a peatland in North America, is a wetland terrain without forest cover dominated by living, peat-forming plants. For botanists and ecologists, the term peatland is a more universal term for any terrain dominated by peat to a depth of 30–40 cm, even if it has been completely drained. There are two types of mire – fens and bogs. A bog is situated on a domed-shaped land form, is higher than the surrounding landscape, and obtains most of its water from rainfall while a fen is located on a slope, flat, or depression and gets its water from both rainfall and surface water. Also, while a bog is always acidic and nutrient-poor, a fen may be either acidic or alkaline and either nutrient-poor or nutrient-rich. A mire is distinguished from a swamp by its lack of a forest canopy, and from a marsh by its water nutrients and distribution as well as its plant life.:p.13 Because mires rely on rainwater for moisture, they are usually deficient in both oxygen and phosphorus, though they may vary widely with regard to nitrogen.:p.14 These things mean that mires are a kind of "...living relic...

Definition of mire in the English dictionary

The first definition of mire in the dictionary is a boggy or marshy area. Other definition of mire is mud, muck, or dirt. Mire is also to sink or cause to sink in a mire.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MIRE

PRESENT

Present

I mire

you mire

he/she/it mires

we mire

you mire

they mire

Present continuous

I am miring

you are miring

he/she/it is miring

we are miring

you are miring

they are miring

Present perfect

I have mired

you have mired

he/she/it has mired

we have mired

you have mired

they have mired

Present perfect continuous

I have been miring

you have been miring

he/she/it has been miring

we have been miring

you have been miring

they have been miring

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I mired

you mired

he/she/it mired

we mired

you mired

they mired

Past continuous

I was miring

you were miring

he/she/it was miring

we were miring

you were miring

they were miring

Past perfect

I had mired

you had mired

he/she/it had mired

we had mired

you had mired

they had mired

Past perfect continuous

I had been miring

you had been miring

he/she/it had been miring

we had been miring

you had been miring

they had been miring

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will mire

you will mire

he/she/it will mire

we will mire

you will mire

they will mire

Future continuous

I will be miring

you will be miring

he/she/it will be miring

we will be miring

you will be miring

they will be miring

Future perfect

I will have mired

you will have mired

he/she/it will have mired

we will have mired

you will have mired

they will have mired

Future perfect continuous

I will have been miring

you will have been miring

he/she/it will have been miring

we will have been miring

you will have been miring

they will have been miring

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would mire

you would mire

he/she/it would mire

we would mire

you would mire

they would mire

Conditional continuous

I would be miring

you would be miring

he/she/it would be miring

we would be miring

you would be miring

they would be miring

Conditional perfect

I would have mire

you would have mire

he/she/it would have mire

we would have mire

you would have mire

they would have mire

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been miring

you would have been miring

he/she/it would have been miring

we would have been miring

you would have been miring

they would have been miring

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you mire
we let´s mire
you mire

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to mire

Past participle

mired

Present Participle

miring

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «MIRE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mire» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of mire

begrime · besmirch · bespatter · bog · bog down · catch up · difficulty · dirt · dirty · emergency · enmesh · entangle · fen · flounder · gloop · grot · involve · jam · marsh · mess · morass · muck · mud · muddy · muskeg · ooze · pakihi · plight · predicament · quagmire · sink · slime · slob · sludge · soil · straits · swamp · trouble · wetland

TRANSLATION OF MIRE

Find out the translation of mire to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of mire from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mire» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 泥潭
• Translator English - Spanish: cieno
• English: mire
• Translator English - Hindi: कीचड़
• Translator English - Arabic: مستنقع
• Translator English - Russian: болото
• Translator English - Portuguese: mire
• Translator English - Bengali: কর্দম
• Translator English - French: boue
• Translator English - Malay: Kubah
• Translator English - German: Schlamm
• Translator English - Japanese: 泥沼
• Translator English - Korean: 수렁
• Translator English - Javanese: Mire
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vung bùn
• Translator English - Tamil: கீழ்மையிலிருந்து
• Translator English - Marathi: चिखल
• Translator English - Turkish: batak
• Translator English - Italian: fango
• Translator English - Polish: torfowisko
• Translator English - Ukrainian: болото
• Translator English - Romanian: mire
• Translator English - Greek: βούρκο
• Translator English - Afrikaans: modder
• Translator English - Swedish: myr
• Translator English - Norwegian: mire

3 QUOTES WITH «MIRE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mire.

1

Amanda Plummer

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

2

Sharon Salzberg

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

3

Michael K. Williams

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIRE»

Discover the use of mire in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mire and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the ...

The Nobel Prize-winning poet comments on the nature, communicative function, and evolution of modern poetry.

Octavio Paz, 1991

The Girl with Three Legs: A Memoir

A personal story of female genital mutilation. Mire reveals what it means to grow up in a traditional Somali family, where girls' and women's basic human rights are violated on a daily basis.

Soraya Mire, 2011

Blessings in the Mire

This is a book about Death. It is also a book about Life. It's about discovering blessings, even in the most painful episodes. Most importantly, it's a book about Love.

Jan Deelstra, 2007

Politically Incorrect Nutrition: Finding Reality in the Mire ...

Most people didn't, until now. Politically Incorrect Nutrition exposes many current and widely held beliefs foisted on both consumers and health-care practitioners by well-oiled, agenda-driven food industry propaganda.

Michael Barbee, 2004

Mire

"Insolence, cynicism . . . it's unclean! If you've such a longing for insolence and cynicism, you might have picked a sow out of the mire and have devoured her alive. It would have been cheaper, anyway!

Anton Chekhov, 2010

Correctional Counseling

The desire to provide a teaching-and-learning aid that will create practitioners in the field who are competent in offender treatment is the overarching goal of this text.

Robert D. Hanser, Scott M. Mire, 2010

The Grand Illusion: Homo-sapiens Trapped in the Mire of ...

In "The Grand Illusion" professor Singh offers unbiased comments from the rationalist's point of view on the concepts of God, belief, customs and ceremonies- which we collectively call "religion.

Sadhu Swarup Singh, 2010

The Grimpen Mire Affair: A Sherlock Holmes Tale as Related ...

When I was ¿nally extricated a sorrier, muddy sight you have never seen. It was my own fault for not paying attention and that fact did not make me feel better in the least. I swear the mire was hissing and heaving in rage at losing its prey.

Earle W. Jacobs, 2010

Encyclopedia of Geomorphology

Andrew Goudie. Table 35 Mean values of the concentration of major ions in waters from European mires Table 36 Base conditions, trophic conditions and mire types Oligotinphie. permanently wet, initiating pear formation on flat and gently ...

Andrew Goudie, 2004

Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry

"Byzantium, " a poem about power and purgation written at the same time as the Crazy Jane series, also defines power as produced by "The fury and the mire of human veins." "Complexities of mire or blood" are opposed to the spiritual flames  ...

Elizabeth Cullingford, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mire is used in the context of the following news items.

Nézzék csak, mire képes az eső

Három napon belül már a második hatalmas fa dőlt ki Hongkongban a heves esőzés miatt. A Bonham Roadra zuhant fa két embert talált el, ... «Index, Jul 15»

Businesses, community heed call to supply tools for schools

Advocate staff photo by Darlene Denstorff -- Volunteer Ascension's Sherry Denig. left, and Chanie Mire sort school supplies Friday during the ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»

The 2016 GOP field is an even crazier mess than anyone predicted

Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal — one former rising star after another is wallowing in the electoral mire. More Perspectives ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»

Comment: Labour has gone from being the party of hope to the party …

As it has done so, it has replaced them with ideas that threaten to drag those who are racing ahead back into the mire. Slowly but surely, the ... «Left Foot Forward, Jul 15»

Letters: Silence isn't golden

This will allow them to wallow in their own muck and mire and leave the people alone. It should be stated that this nation is a secular nation. «Longview Daily News, Jul 15»

Ten reasons to visit Rutherglen: Our response to Buzzfeed article …

We've had a sneak peak, and trust us, it looks fantastic. And if you can't wait until it opens, the woodland at Malls Mire between Rutherglen and ... «Scottish Daily Record, Jul 15»

Dan Simpson: Waking up to the real world

... and the fact that America has an industrious, capable secretary of state, John F. Kerry, who labors tirelessly to try to keep us out of the mire. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»

Burton and District Pool League week four: Division One and Two …

... won four of their last five frames to celebrate their first victory of the season over Beech B and are well and truly out of the relegation mire. «Burton Mail, Jul 15»

Cinema review: Southpaw

Tragedy strikes and Leila is wrested away from Billy by the courts after he sinks into a mire of alcohol-sodden despair. In order to reunite his ... «Crewe Guardian, Jul 15»

Suspect sought in Mire residential burglary

Authorities in Acadia Parish are asking for the public's assistance in locating a 28-year-old St. Martinville man wanted for a residential burglary ... «KATC Lafayette News, Jul 15»