What does MIRE mean?

Definitions for MIRE
maɪərmire

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slacknoun

    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

  2. slop, mirenoun

    deep soft mud in water or slush

    "they waded through the slop"

  3. mireverb

    a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from

    "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

  4. entangle, mireverb

    entrap

    "Our people should not be mired in the past"

  5. mire, bog downverb

    cause to get stuck as if in a mire

    "The mud mired our cart"

  6. grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mireverb

    be unable to move further

    "The car bogged down in the sand"

  7. mire, muck, mud, muck upverb

    soil with mud, muck, or mire

    "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"

GCIDE

  1. Mireverb

    Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mirenoun

    Mud; dirt at the bottom of water.

    Etymology: moer, Dutch.

    He his rider from her lofty steed
    Would have cast down, and trod in dirty mire. Fa. Qu.

    Here’s that, which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne’er left man i’ th’ mire. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

    I’m Ralph himself, your trusty squire,
    Wh’ has dragg’d your donship out o’ th’ mire. Hudibras.

    I appeal to any man’s reason, whether it be not better that there should be a distinction of land and sea, than that all should be mire and water. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.

    Now plung’d in mire, now by sharp brambles torn. Wentworth Dillon.

  2. Mirenoun

    An ant; a pismire.

    Etymology: myr , Welsh; myra , Saxon; mier, Dutch.

  3. To Mireverb

    To whelm in the mud; to soil with mud.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Why had I not, with charitable hand,
    Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates?
    Who smeered thus, and mir’d with infamy,
    I might have said no part of it is mine. William Shakespeare.

Wikipedia

  1. Mire

    A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia. All types of mires share the common characteristic of being saturated with water, at least seasonally with actively forming peat, while having their own ecosystem. Like coral reefs, mires are unusual landforms that derive mostly from biological rather than physical processes, and can take on characteristic shapes and surface patterning. A quagmire is a floating (quaking) mire, bog, or any peatland being in a stage of hydrosere or hydrarch (hydroseral) succession, resulting in pond-filling yields underfoot. Ombrotrophic types of quagmire may be called quaking bog (quivering bog). Minerotrophic types can be named with the term quagfen.There are four types of mire: bog, fen, marsh and swamp. A bog is a mire that, due to its location relative to the surrounding landscape, obtains most of its water from rainfall (ombrotrophic). A fen is located on a slope, flat, or in a depression and gets most of its water from soil or groundwater (minerotrophic). Thus, while a bog is always acidic and nutrient-poor, a fen may be slightly acidic, neutral, or alkaline, and either nutrient-poor or nutrient-rich. A marsh is a type of wetland within which vegetation is rooted in mineral soil but some marshes form shallow peat deposits well known as Mires. Swamps are characterized by their forest canopy and, like fens, are typically of higher pH level and nutrient availability than bogs. Some bogs and fens can support limited shrub or tree growth on hummocks. The formation of mires today is primarily controlled by climatic conditions such as precipitation and temperature, although terrain relief is a major factor as waterlogging occurs more easily on flatter ground. However, there is a growing anthropogenic influence in the accumulation of peat and peatlands around the world, including through both conservation efforts as well as climate change-induced destruction by droughts and forest fires. Topographically, mires elevate the ground surface above the original topography. Mires can reach considerable heights above the underlying mineral soil or bedrock: peat depths of above 10m have been commonly recorded in temperate regions (many temperate and most boreal mires were removed by ice sheets in the last Ice Age), and above 25 m in tropical regions.[7] When the absolute decay rate in the catotelm (the lower, water-saturated zone of a mire) matches the rate of input of new peat into the catotelm, the mire will stop growing in height.[8] A simplistic calculation, using typical values for a Sphagnum bog of 1mm new peat added per year and 0.0001 proportion of the catotelm decaying per year, gives a maximum height of 10 m. More advanced analyses incorporate expectable nonlinear rates of catotelm decay. For botanists and ecologists, the term peatland is a more general term for any terrain dominated by peat to a depth of at least 30 cm (12 in), even if it has been completely drained (i.e., a peatland can be dry, but a mire by definition must be actively forming peat).

ChatGPT

  1. mire

    A mire is a type of wetland characterized by water-logged, peaty, swampy conditions, often dominated by mosses. It can also be used metaphorically to refer to a difficult, complex, or unpleasant situation or condition from which it is hard to extricate oneself.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mirenoun

    an ant

  2. Mirenoun

    deep mud; wet, spongy earth

  3. Mireverb

    to cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon

  4. Mireverb

    to soil with mud or foul matter

  5. Mireverb

    to stick in mire

  6. Etymology: [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. mrr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mire

    mīr, n. deep mud.—v.t. to plunge and fix in mire: to soil with mud.—v.i. to sink in mud.—n. Mī′riness.—adj. Mī′ry, consisting of mire: covered with mire. [Ice. mýri, marsh.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. mire

    (Fr.). In the French artillery, a piece of wood about 4 inches thick, 1 foot high, and 21⁄2 feet long, which is used in pointing cannon.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MIRE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mire is ranked #10894 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mire surname appeared 2,924 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mire.

    81.8% or 2,392 total occurrences were White.
    13.3% or 391 total occurrences were Black.
    2.2% or 65 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.1% or 33 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.8% or 25 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 18 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Anagrams for MIRE »

  1. reim

  2. riem

  3. imer

  4. rime

  5. remi

  6. emir

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of MIRE in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of MIRE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of MIRE in a Sentence

  1. Douglas Adams, The Guardian:

    The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

  2. State Tony Blinken:

    Not only whether United States creates opportunities for American workers and businesses, but also whether United States's green and sustainable, and done in a way that's transparent ; respects workers' rights ; gives the local population a say ; and doesn't mire developing governments and communities in debt. United States's an opportunity for us, the global renewable energy market is projected to be $ 2.15 trillion by 2025.

  3. Chris CornellIncredibly:

    I was very lucky I was able to see that and not take it for granted. It helped me climb out of the mire. I saw how hard it could be.

  4. Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre:

    This started about midnight in Livingston Parish ' where this Matthew Mire shot two people. Then he traveled over to Ascension Parish where he shot two more. One succumbed to her injuries.

  5. Vincent Van Gogh:

    Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”

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