Vired vs Sired - What's the difference?
vired | sired |
(vire)
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 :
* 2005 , House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report :
* 2012 , David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services :
(sire)
A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
* Shelley
Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
As verbs the difference between vired and sired
is that vired is (vire) while sired is (sire).vired
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(head)vire
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Verb
(en-verb)- 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.
- Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.
- Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!
sired
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(head)Anagrams
*sire
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Noun
(en noun)- And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
- [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
Verb
(sir)- In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.
