firing - Translation in LEO’s English ⇔ French Dictionary

Possible base forms

firing
fire (Verb)

Verbs

to fire  | fired, fired |   - pull the trigger	appuyer sur la détente
to fire  | fired, fired |   - pull the trigger	presser la détente
to fire  | fired, fired |   - shoot	faire feu
to fire  | fired, fired |   - pull the trigger	tirer   - au sens de : presser la détente
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	mettre qn. à la porte [fig.] [coll.]
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	flanquer qn. à la porte [fig.] [coll.]
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	virer qn. [coll.]   - renvoyer
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	renvoyer qn.   - employé
to fire at so. (or: sth.)  | fired, fired | [MIL.]	tirer sur qn. (or: qc.)
to fire at so. (or: sth.)  | fired, fired | [MIL.]   - with canon	canonner qn. (or: qc.)
to fire sth.  | fired, fired | [TECH.]   - e. g. bricks, pottery	(faire) cuire qc.   - par ex., briques, poterie
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	foutre qn. à la porte [fig.] [vulgar]
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	sacquer   or: saquer qn. [Arg.] [vulgar]
to fire so.  | fired, fired | [coll.]   - sack so.	éjecter qn. [fig.] [pej.]

Adjectives / Adverbs

end-fire  adj. [TELECOM.]

à rayonnement longitudinal

Phrases / Collocations

Fire!	Feu !
to give the fire a poke	tisonner le feu
to give the fire a poke	donner un coup de tisonnier dans le feu
to set sth. on fire	mettre le feu à qc.
to pull so.'s chestnuts out of the fire [fig.]	tirer à qn. les marrons du feu [fig.]
to have too many irons in the fire [fig.]	courir deux lièvres à la fois [fig.]
to set the world on fire   - usually with negative (Amer.)	dépoter [coll.]

Nouns

firing failure [ELEC.] [TECH.]	le raté d'amorçage
firing power [ELEC.]	la puissance d'allumage
firing time [ELEC.]	la durée d'allumage
false firing [ELEC.] [TECH.]	l'amorçage intempestif  m.
firefighting   or: fire fighting, fire-fighting	la lutte contre l'incendie
fire-throated metaltail [ZOOL.]	la métallure à gorge feu

Orthographically similar words

filing, fixing, fringe, frying, hiring, tiring