HANG FIRE

Meaning of HANG FIRE in English

delay or be delayed in taking action.

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Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

HANG FIRE — phrasal to be slow in the explosion of a charge after its primer has been discharged, delay , hesitate , …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HANG FIRE — phrasal 1. : to be slow in the explosion of a charge after its primer has been discharged 2. : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HANG FIRE — delay, wait
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HANG FIRE — 1. : to be slow in the explosion of a charge after its primer has been discharged 2. : delay …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HANG FIRE — 1 : to be slow in the explosion of a charge after its primer has been discharged 2 : DELAY …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HANG FIRE — Synonyms and related words : adjourn, be a sideliner, be dilatory, be still, be unproductive, bring up, bring up short, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HANG FIRE — {v. phr.} 1. To fail or be slow in shooting or firing. * /Smith pulled the trigger, but the gun …
Slang English vocab
HANG FIRE — Be long or slow in discharging ( said of a gun ).
Dictionary of English Synonyms
HANG FIRE — DELAY, hang back, hold back, hold on, stall, pause; procrastinate, vacillate, adopt Fabian tactics; informal hang about/around, sit tight, hold …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HANG FIRE — {v. phr.} 1. To fail or be slow in shooting or firing. * /Smith pulled the trigger, but the gun …
Словарь английских идиом
HANG FIRE — v. phr. 1. To fail or be slow in shooting or firing. Smith pulled the trigger, but the gun hung …
American Idioms English vocabulary
HANG FIRE — A malfunction that causes an undesired delay in the functioning of a firing system.
DOD English Dictionary of Military Terms
HANG FIRE — а) воен. дать осечку; б) перен. мешкать, медлить; в) оставаться нерешенным, невыясненным
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HANG FIRE — дать осечку; _перен. медлить, мешкать
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HANG-FIRE — сущ. воен.аварийная задержка взрыва или выстрела
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HANG FIRE — 1) воен. дать осечку 2) перен. мешкать, медлить 3) оставаться нерешенным, невыясненным
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
HANG FIRE — давать осечку, медлить, мешкать
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HANG FIRE — давать осечку, медлить, мешкать
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
HANG-FIRE — сущ. воен. аварийная задержка взрыва или выстрела
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HANG FIRE — 1) воен. дать осечку 2) мешкать, медлить 3) оставаться нерешённым, невыясненным
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HANG-FIRE — сущ. воен. аварийная задержка взрыва или выстрела
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HANG FIRE — 1) воен. дать осечку 2) мешкать, медлить 3) оставаться нерешённым, невыясненным
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HANG FIRE — дать осечку; _перен. медлить, мешкать
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
HANG FIRE — дать осечку; перен. медлить, мешкать
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
HANG FIRE — а) воен. дать осечку; б) перен. мешкать, медлить; в) оставаться нерешенным, невыясненным
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HANG — I. ˈhaŋ, ˈhaiŋ sometimes ˈheŋ verb ( hung ˈhəŋ ; also hanged ; hung also hanged ; hanging ; hangs …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIRE
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HANG — (v. i.) To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or …
Английский словарь Webster
HANG — — hangable , adj. — hangability , n. /hang/ , v. , hung or ( esp. for 4, 5, 20, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FIRE — — firer , n. /fuyeur/ , n. , v. , fired, firing . n. 1. a state, process, or instance …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HANG — I. ˈhaŋ verb ( hung ˈhəŋ ; also hanged ˈhaŋd ; hang·ing ˈhaŋ-iŋ) Etymology: partly from Middle English hon, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FIRE — I. ˈfi(-ə)r noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fȳr; akin to Old High German fiur fire, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HANG — noun a sharp or steep declivity or slope. 2. hang ·vi to slope down; as, hanging grounds. 3. hang ·vi …
Webster English vocab
FIRE — vt to drive by fire. 2. fire ·vt to cauterize. 3. fire ·vi to be irritated or inflamed with passion. …
Webster English vocab
HANG — [hang] vb hung also hanged ; hang.ing [partly fr. ME hon, fr. OE hon, v.t.; partly fr. ME hangen, fr. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FIRE — [fire] n, often attrib [ME, fr. OE fyr; akin to OHG fiur fire, Gk pyr] (bef. 12c) 1 a (1): …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FIRE — fire BrE AmE ˈfa ɪ ‿ə AmE ˈfaɪ‿ ə r ▷ fire|d d ▷ firing ˈfa ɪ ‿ər ɪŋ AmE …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HANG — / hæŋ; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( hung , hung / hʌŋ; NAmE / HELP NOTE : …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FIRE — / ˈfaɪə(r); NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun STH BURNING 1. [ U ] the flames, light and heat, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HANG — I. hang 1 S1 W2 /hæŋ/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle hung /hʌŋ/) [ Word Family: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FIRE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HANG — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. hung except in sense 7) 1 tr. a secure or cause to …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FIRE
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HANG — v. & n. v. (past and past part. hung except in sense 7) 1 tr. a secure or cause to …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FIRE
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HANG — v. & n. --v. (past and past part. hung except in sense 7) 1. tr. a secure or cause to …
Oxford English vocab
FIRE
Oxford English vocab
FIRE — I. BURNING, HEAT, OR ENTHUSIASM /faɪə(r)/ ( fires, firing, fired) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HANG — ( hangs, hanging, hung, hanged) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Note: The …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HANG — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hanging basket (= for putting plants in and hanging outside ) ▪ All …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FIRE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bomb/fire/terrorist etc alert ▪ a full-scale flood alert a devastating flood/fire/earthquake etc ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HANG — Synonyms and related words : act in concert, adhere, all depend, and quarter, art, aspire, associate with, attach, bag, be …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FIRE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HANG — See: GO HANG, GIVE A HANG or CARE A HANG, GIVE ONE ENOUGH ROPE, AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF, LEAVE …
Slang English vocab
HANG — n. hang on hang upon hang around hang loose hang out hang up well hung
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
HANG — verb ADVERB ▪ limply , loosely ▪ He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him. ▪ uselessly …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
FIRE — INDEX: 1. a fire that damages a building, forest, etc 2. a fire for making you warm, for cooking, or …
Longman Activator English vocab
HANG — n. 25B6; verb lights hung from the trees : BE SUSPENDED, hang down, be pendent, dangle, swing, sway; archaic depend. …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HANG — v. 1 suspend, depend, dangle; be poised or suspended, hover, swing Hang the lantern from this branch The laundry was …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FIRE — n. 1 flame(s), blaze; conflagration, holocaust, inferno We gathered round the roaring fire 2 feeling, passion, ardour, ardency, fervour, fervency, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HANG — See: GO HANG, GIVE A HANG or CARE A HANG, GIVE ONE ENOUGH ROPE, AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF, LEAVE …
Словарь английских идиом
FIRE — See: BALL OF FIRE, BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA or BETWEEN TWO FIRES, BUILD A FIRE UNDER, …
Словарь английских идиом
FIRE — (*) 1. The command given to discharge a weapon(s). 2. To detonate the main explosive charge by means of a …
DOD English Dictionary of Military Terms
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