Определение gun в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone
He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
- Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun; or, a home-made firearm such as a potato gun
- Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun
- A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower)
2000: by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore. — Drew Kampion at surfline.com.
- To be very good or the best at something
Daniel is gun at basketball.
- (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm
The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
- A very portable, short weapon, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing weapon; a handgun: a revolver, pistol, Derringer, zipgun, so forth
- A pattern that "fires" out other patterns
The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream.
- To offer vigorous support to a person or cause
He’s gunning for you.
- Biceps
- A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun
- To speed something up
He gunned the engine.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02
- A less portable, long weapon; a bullet or projectile firing weapon; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun
This is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for fighting, one is for fun. (U.S. military cadence, used to make recruits memorize that the only correct term for a soldier's standard-issue firearm is a rifle, not a gun.).
- {n} a cannon, musket a great flagon or pot
- Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., potato gun, air-pressure pellet gun
- large but transportable armament
- 1 Individual designated as an official gunner at an event 2 Firearm handler swings and fires (blanks) in seasoned and finished tests
- Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc
- A cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02
- The device that dispenses a material (adhesive) onto a substrate or product
- If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time. It wasn't due to be released until September 10, but some booksellers have jumped the gun and decided to sell it early
- an outfielder's outstanding throwing arm
- shoot with a gun
- See these terms in the Vocabulary
- {f} shoot, fire; dramatically increase the speed of, accelerate rapidly
- Matrix's name for his gun; it functions with Matrix's cybernetic eye RB: 3 H
- A cannon designed to throw a projectile a long distance with a flat trajectory
- Hypodermic needle
- - term for mortar
- A slang term for the instrument known as a "theodolite" This instrument is what the surveyor uses to turn angles and measure distances
- A relatively long-barreled cannon designed to fire projectiles with a nearly flat trajectory For a discussion of the distinguishing characteristics of field guns, siege guns, smoothbores and rifles, see the Weapons page For more examples, see the Encyclopedia
- If you stick to your guns, you continue to have your own opinion about something even though other people are trying to tell you that you are wrong. He should have stuck to his guns and refused to meet her. Weapon consisting essentially of a metal tube from which a missile or projectile is shot by the force of exploding gunpowder or some other propellant. The term is often limited today to the so-called big guns, cannon larger than a howitzer or mor(Tarih) It may also be used to refer to military small arms such as the rifle, machine gun, and pistol, as well as to nonmilitary firearms such as the shotgun. Though the Chinese used gunpowder in warfare from the 9th century, guns were not developed until the Europeans acquired gunpowder in the 13th century. The earliest guns ( 1327) resembled old-fashioned soda bottles; they apparently were fired by applying a red-hot wire to a touchhole drilled through the top. Separating the barrel and the powder chamber resulted in breechloaders, which continued to be used in naval swivel guns and fortress wallpieces well into the 17th century. Small arms, as distinguished from hand cannon, did not exist until the development of the matchlock in the 15th century. See also flintlock, wheel lock. antiaircraft gun Gatling gun Machine Gun Kelly machine gun submachine gun Taewon gun Uzi submachine gun
- A very portable, short weapon, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing weapon; a handgun
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) shoot with a gun
- the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute" a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) shoot with a gun
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas"
- If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something. The company came out with guns blazing
- A poor term for mortar
- A gun is a weapon from which bullets or other things are fired. He produced a gun and he came into the house The inner-city has guns and crime and drugs and deprivation. gun control laws
- A hypodermic needle
- Rod
- Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms
- Any device or tool that projects a payload in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun
- Violent blasts of wind
- A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, price gun, screw gun
- A less portable, long weapon; a bullet or projectile firing weapon; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic, or a shotgun (or, historically, a musket or other firearm now obsolete)
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning
- A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means
- a cannon that fires a high velocity projectile on a flat trajectory
- Large surfboard for riding big waves
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- A breech-loading gun A gun loaded at the breech, which is then closed by a screw or wedge-block Evening or sunset gun A gun fired at sunset, or about 9 o'clock p m
- {i} device with a metal tube through which bullets or other missiles are fired; rifle; pistol; cannon; professional killer (Slang)
- A gun or a starting gun is an object like a gun that is used to make a noise to signal the start of a race. The starting gun blasted and they were off
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- the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute"
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine
- The British restrict the term in portable arms to shotguns Here it is properly used for rifles, shotguns, handguns and airguns, as well as cannon
- A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon
- To gun an engine or a vehicle means to make it start or go faster by pressing on the accelerator pedal. He gunned his engine and drove off. see also airgun, machine-gun, shotgun, sub-machine gun
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- gun club
- A club for firearms enthusiasts
- gun clubs
- plural form of gun club
- gun dog
- A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game
- gun dogs
- plural form of gun dog
- gun down
- To shoot down
- gun for
- To strive for the downfall or diminution of another
He has been gunning for her since the day he arrived, he wants her job.
- gun it
- To accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly
You're going to have to gun it to pick up that much speed in such a short distance.
- gun lobbies
- plural form of gun lobby
- gun lobby
- An organized group which attempts to influence public policy and law with respect to firearms, especially as an advocate of ownership of and access to firearms by individual citizens
But efforts like Woods' are up against powerful headwinds — and not just because of the powerful gun lobby that often strangles gun-control laws.
- gun powders
- plural form of gun powder
- gun-brig
- A small two-masted vessel during the Age of Sail, typically carrying 12 guns, comprising two long guns in the chase position and ten carronades on the broadsides. In the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars this term implied an armed brig smaller than a brig-sloop
- gun-shy
- Afraid of guns, or the noise they make
- gun port
- (Askeri) An opening in the body of an aircraft or in a wall or armoured vehicle through which a gun may be fired
- gun barrel
- metal tube of a gun through which bullets are fired
- gun bullets
- round lead balls that are shot from a gun; round lead balls that are shot from a rifle
- gun carriage
- A frame or structure upon which a gun is mounted for firing or maneuvering. a frame with wheels on which a large heavy gun is moved around
- gun carriage
- vehicle used to transport a cannon or large gun
- gun carriage
- a framework on which a gun is mounted for firing
- gun case
- a case for storing a gun
- gun control
- Gun control refers to the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns. France has tight gun-control laws for handguns, but not for hunting rifles. Regulation of the sale and use of rifles and handguns. laws that limit the ways in which guns can be sold, owned, and used
- gun control
- governmental supervision and regulation of the ownership of firearms (e.g. licensing requirements, background checks on gun buyers, etc.)
- gun control
- efforts to regulate or control sales of guns
- gun crew
- group in charge of a ship's guns
- gun deck
- formerly any deck other than the weather deck having cannons from end to end
- gun deck
- area on a ship where cannons are kept
- gun dog
- A gun dog is a dog that has been trained to work with a hunter or gamekeeper, especially to find and carry back birds or animals that have been shot. A dog trained or bred to assist hunters, as in flushing or retrieving game. a dog that is trained to find and bring back dead birds that have been shot for sport American Equivalent: bird dog
- gun down
- strike down or shoot down
- gun down
- injure or kill with a gunshot, shoot down
- gun down
- If someone is gunned down, they are shot and severely injured or killed. He had been gunned down and killed at point-blank range
- gun emplacement
- an emplacement for a gun
- gun enclosure
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
- gun for
- If someone is gunning for you, they are trying to find a way to harm you or cause you trouble. You knew that they were gunning for you, but did you ever imagine that it would be as bad as this?
- gun moll
- The girlfriend of a gangster
- gun muzzle
- the open circular discharging end of a gun
- gun room
- military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship
- gun salutes
- ceremonial shots fired in honor of something or someone
- gun smoke
- smoke created by the firing of guns
- gun trigger
- lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- gun turret
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
- gun-layer
- soldier who aims the cannons at their targets, device which aims the cannons at their targets
- gun-position officer
- officer in charge of fir from a gun battery
- gun-runner
- gun-runner gun-runners in AM, use gunrunner A gun-runner is someone who takes or sends guns into a country secretly and illegally
- gun-running
- Gun-running is the activity of taking or sending guns into a country secretly and illegally. the activity of taking guns into a country secretly and illegally, especially so that they can be used by people who want to fight against their government
- gun-shy
- If someone is gun-shy, they are nervous or afraid. The electric-power industry is gun-shy about building more large plants
- gun-sight
- a sight used for aiming a gun
- gun-toting
- carrying a gun
- BB gun
- a gun that shoots BB-size pellets, typically using compressed air, or sometimes just a compressed spring
- Chekhov's gun
- An element that is introduced early in the story whose significance to the plot does not become clear until later
- Gatling gun
- A type of machine gun with several barrels on a rotating frame, still used today on some modern aircraft and naval weapons
- Sten gun
- A family of lightweight British submachine guns
- Thompson submachine gun
- a .45-caliber American submachine gun, having a wooden stock and a drum or box magazine
- Tommy gun
- a Thompson submachine gun
- air gun
- A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air
- big gun
- A large-caliber artillery piece
- big gun
- Someone who is powerful or influential most often in plural form
If this doesn't work, they'll have to bring in the big guns.
- cap-gun
- A toy gun for children with bullets in paper caps
- chain gun
- A machine gun or autocannon that uses an external power source via a continuous loop of chain
- chase gun
- A gun moved temporarily from its normal broadside position to fire through the chase ports in the bow or stern of a ship
- chicken gun
- Alternative name of chicken cannon
- coach gun
- A double-barrelled shotgun with very short barrels
- costain gun
- A gun that fired a small rocket with a line attached; used to rig a breeches buoy
- electric gun
- a gun with electrically powered components, such as the reloader, or barrel rotator
- electric gun
- an electroshock gun; a taser; a stun gun
- electric gun
- a gun that uses electricity to vaporize water as the propulsive force on the ballistic projectile
- electric gun
- a gun that uses electromagnetic, electric or magnetic force to propel a projectile
- electric gun
- a railgun
- electric gun
- a coilgun
- electron gun
- Any device that produces a stream of electrons, especially a narrow stream that is focused onto a phosphor screen
- evening gun
- The firing of a gun after the last note of the retreat, signalling the lowering of the flag at sunset; the gun thus fired
That life is not worth living the whole army of suicides declare,—an army whose roll-call, like the famous evening gun of the British army, follows the sun round the world and never terminates.
- flame gun
- a large blowlamp used to control weeds etc
- flare gun
- A large-bore pistol-like firearm used to fire signal flares
- give a gun
- To order a gun to be fired; sometimes construed with dative (or to), implying that it is done as an honor, as a help (occasionally as a hostile demonstration)
- give it the gun
- Literal meaning
- give it the gun
- To cause a vehicle to accelerate; to open the throttle of an engine
- grease gun
- a levered device for forcing grease into machinery
- grease gun
- a small machine gun, particularly the .45 calibre M3 used by the US in WW2
- gunned
- Simple past tense and past participle of gun
- gunned
- equipped or bedecked with guns
She was armored and gunned and ready for action.
- guns
- Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the biceps and triceps
I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day! Obviously that sounds awesome, because my guns are only 15 inches.
- guns
- plural form of gun
- guns
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gun
- is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
- Indicates the speaker has noticed an erection underneath the interlocutor's clothes
- jump the gun
- to trade securities based on information that is not yet public; to trade on inside information
- jump the gun
- to begin a race too soon, before the starting gun goes off
- jump the gun
- to act or begin too soon or without due caution
Don't you think it is jumping the gun to report this without verifying it?.
- jumped the gun
- Simple past tense and past participle of jump the gun
- jumping the gun
- Present participle of jump the gun
- jumps the gun
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jump the gun
- laser gun
- a weapon that uses laser power as its destructive force
- laser gun
- a ray gun
- laser-gun
- Alternative spelling of laser gun
- light gun
- A device resembling a gun that allows the player of a video game to target a point on the screen
- machine gun
- A type of firearm that continuously fires bullets in rapid succession
- machine-gun
- To fire a machine gun
- machine-gun
- To kill people with a machine gun
- morning gun
- At military posts, a gun fired at the first note of reveille; the firing of this gun
We have already heard the triumphant morning gun of Vermont, booming with increased volume. Far off San Francisco has merrily responded; old Maine in the North stands ready to send us a cheering echo, and all over the land our hosts are mustering with the inspiring confidence that to march on is to conquer.
- pellet gun
- A low-power air pistol
- pellet gun
- A small gun that propels a pellet by using a compressed spring, rather than an explosion of gunpowder or other means
- pop gun
- A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string
- pop gun
- A firearm of unimpressive appearance
- radar gun
- A hand-held (or mounted) device that uses the Doppler effect and a radar beam to measure the velocity of moving objects (especially traffic)
- railroad gun
- a railway gun
- railway gun
- a large mobile artillery gun mounted on a railroad rail car
- ray gun
- A fictional weapon that emits harmful rays
- ray-gun
- Alternative spelling of ray gun
- run and gun
- To move the ball quickly and shoot often. Often used attributively
This coach likes to play a run and gun offense.
- run-and-gun
- In which the player's character runs on foot and uses a projectile weapon
What makes a horror game different to write than, say, a run-and-gun first-person shooter?.
- six-gun
- A revolver with a cylinder that holds six bullets
- smoking gun
- Evidence, particularly of a crime, that is difficult or impossible to dispute
We have a theory, but we haven't found a smoking gun yet.
- son of a gun
- son of a bitch
- spear gun
- a form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing
- spring gun
- a gun rigged to fire when a string is tripped
- spud gun
- a toy gun that fires a plug of potato by compressing the air in the barrel, forcing the potato 'bullet' out at speed
- spud gun
- a larger version of the same, powered by compressed air, butane or other propellant which fires a complete potato
- squirt gun
- A toy gun used to shoot water
He possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night.
- staple gun
- A heavy-duty device for driving staples directly into wood or other material
- starting gun
- A signal to start or proceed
- starting gun
- A gun fired to start a race
- stun gun
- A weapon intended to immobilize, usually through delivery of an electric shock
- stutter gun
- A machine gun, particularly the Thompson or similar
- submachine gun
- A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition
Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns. - New York Times, 09/03/2007.
- swivel gun
- A small cannon attached to a swivel or pivot. It was usually located on a ship's rail so it could have a large range of fire, and could fire anything ranging from small round balls of lead to cannon balls
- top gun
- A most highly rated gun shooter
- top gun
- Someone most highly rated
- top-gun
- Attributive form of top gun
top-gun shooter.
- under the gun
- Too close to be subject to artillery fire
- under the gun
- The first player to act on the first round of betting in Texas hold 'em
- under the gun
- Under great pressure to perform
He was under the gun to finish the project quickly.
- water gun
- A toy gun used to shoot water
Apparently it was a water gun, but it was a very, very realistic replica.
- you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
- It is advantageous not to rely solely on being nice
- young gun
- a new or rising talent or star
- submachine gun
- An air-cooled, magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges
- A gun
- heater
- stun gun
- a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock
- radar gun
- A radar speed gun (also radar gun and speed gun) is a device used to measure the speed of moving objects. It is used in law-enforcement to measure the speed of moving vehicles and is often used in professional spectator sport, for such things as the measurement of the speed of pitched baseballs, runners and tennis serves
- radar speed gun
- A radar speed gun (also radar gun and speed gun) is a device used to measure the speed of moving objects. It is used in law-enforcement to measure the speed of moving vehicles and is often used in professional spectator sport, for such things as the measurement of the speed of pitched baseballs, runners and tennis serves
- speed gun
- A radar speed gun (also radar gun and speed gun) is a device used to measure the speed of moving objects. It is used in law-enforcement to measure the speed of moving vehicles and is often used in professional spectator sport, for such things as the measurement of the speed of pitched baseballs, runners and tennis serves
- gunning
- {n} the act of hunting with a gun
- guns
- {n} firearms
- A gun
- heat
- A gun
- piece
- Guns
- blix
- a gun
- jammy
- gunned
- shot by guns
- gunned
- {s} equipped with guns or cannons
- gunned
- past of gun
- gunning
- The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun
- gunning
- {i} gunnery; art of shooting with guns; practice of hunting or shooting game with guns
- gunning
- present participle of gun
- guns
- plural of gun
- guns
- Well-developed muscles of the upper arm
- guns
- third-person singular of gun