What is the meaning of the word "fire"?

Definitions:

a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning noun
- they sat by the fire and talked
a severe trial noun
- I went through fire to get you this gift.
bake in a kiln so as to harden verb
- fire pottery
cause to go off verb
- fire a gun
drive out or away by or as if by fire verb
- The soldiers were fired
fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking noun
- put the kettle on the fire
go off or discharge verb
- The gun fired
intense adverse criticism noun
- The president directed their fire at the opposition.
provide with fuel verb
- Oil fires the furnace
the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy noun
- hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes
the event of something burning (often destructive) noun
- they lost everything in the fire
the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke noun
- fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries