Hir vs Hire - What's the difference?
hir | hire |
(neologism) them (singular).
* {{quote-book
, year = 1988
, title = From a Changeling Star
, first = Jeffrey
, last = Carver
, publisher = Bantam Books
, location = New York
, isbn = 0-553-27639-5
, ol = 7824150M
, page = 232
, passage = But once the disorientation had passed, hir' forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish ' hir position, and Ruskin's.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1996
, month = June
, title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure
, first = Caitlin
, last = Sullivan
, coauthors =
, publisher = Serpent's Tail
, location = New York
, isbn = 978-1852424183
, id =
, lccn = 95072971
, ol = 820831M
, page = 10
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ
, passage = I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 1997-12-18
, title = My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
, first = Kate
, last = Bornstein
, authorlink = Kate Bornstein
, publisher = Routledge
, location = London, New York
, isbn = 978-0415916738
, id =
, lccn = 98134184
, ol = 7495768M
, page = 130
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA130
, passage = Words like "freak" became attached to name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir .
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2000-08-29
, title = Renaissance
, series = Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur 10
, first = Peter
, last = David
, authorlink = Peter David
, publisher = Simon & Schuster
, isbn = 978-0671042394
, lccn = 2002555412
, ol = 3665551M
, page = 137
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=oSvCkiIzTOEC
, passage = T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir . "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."
}}
(neologism) Belonging]] to , their (singular).
* {{quote-book
, year = 1988
, title = From a Changeling Star
, first = Jeffrey
, last = Carver
, publisher = Bantam Books
, location = New York
, isbn = 0-553-27639-5
, ol = 7824150M
, page = 232
, passage = But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1996
, month = June
, title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure
, first = Caitlin
, last = Sullivan
, coauthors =
, publisher = Serpent's Tail
, location = New York
, isbn = 9781852424183
, id =
, lccn = 95072971
, ol = 820831M
, page = 13
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ
, passage = It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2002
, title = The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality
, first = Frank
, last = Schaap
, location = Amsterdam
, publisher = Aksant Academic Publishers
, page = 32
, isbn = 9055891991
, ol = 17062341M
, passage = The player playing hir' character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, '''hir''' imagination, and ' hir social and communicative skills.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=a72ATDOTez8C&pg=PA32
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2003
, title = Slave Trade
, series = Slave Trade Trilogy 1
, first = Susan
, last = Wright
, publisher = Pocket Books
, isbn = 0743466853
, ol = 3283799M
, page = 17
, passage = The garment covered hir' dual genitals, but ' hir slightly rounded breasts and smooth shoulders were revealed.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5vJAfJbkS-MC&pg=PA17
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2011-03-29
, first = Jody
, last = Norton
, chapter = Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature
, title = Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature
, editors = Kenneth B. Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate
, publisher = University of Michigan
, page = 305
, isbn = 9780472071463
, id =
, passage = "It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir' very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to '''hir''' would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of ' hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven.
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fsWV-TAoJXEC&pg=PA305
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2011-05-19
, title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
, first = Ken
, last = Wickham
, publisher = CreateSpace
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 7
, passage = Sie may feel that hir' actual identity of ' hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
Payment for the temporary use of something.
(obsolete) Reward, payment.
* Bible, Luke x. 7
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
(label) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
* , chapter=16
, title= (label) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
(label) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
(label) To accomplish by paying for services.
(label) To accept employment.
As nouns the difference between hir and hire
is that hir is news, information while hire is .hir
English
Pronoun
Synonyms
* (singular) them * (neologism) em, perHyponyms
* him, herDerived terms
* (neologism) hirselfAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* (singular) their * (neologism) eirHyponyms
* his, herDerived terms
* (neologism) hirsUsage notes
A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schema. Subjective forms associated with hir include , (sie), (shi), and (ze). For additional considerations regarding use among members of the genderqueer community, see usage notes for (ze).See also
* other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns ----hire
English
Noun
(en noun)- The sign offered pedalos on hire .
- The labourer is worthy of his hire .
- I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire , / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
- ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire .
- We pair up each of our new hires''' with one of our original '''hires .
Synonyms
* (state of being hired) employment, employVerb
(hir)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
