| 单词 | gun |
| 释义 | gun (once / 50 pages) nv A gun is a hand-held weapon that fires bullets or shells. A hunter's gun looks very different from the gun carried in a holster by a police officer.Guns come in all shapes and sizes, but they are all dangerous weapons. Most guns are designed to kill or injure, whether when hunting animals or used for self-defense. There are also starting guns, which make a loud noise to mark the start of a race; squirt guns, which fire streams of water; and paintball guns, used to shoot paint pellets during a paintball game. A so-called "hired gun" is a professional who's paid for their particular abilities. "Son of a gun" is an informal, fond way to refer to someone. WORD FAMILYgun: gunned, gunner, gunnery, gunning, guns+/gunner: gunners/gunnery: gunneries USAGE EXAMPLESThey recommended harsher sentences for gun crimes and for the use of high-capacity magazines. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) To handle a gun, you must be “maximally aggressive,” Gariev said. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) On Dec. 19, a Turkish policeman gunned down Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at an art exhibition, while railing against the bloodshed in Syria. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) Hypo|Hyper air gun, air rifle, airgun a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pomartillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes breechloadera gun that is loaded at the breech cannonheavy automatic gun fired from an airplane cannonheavy gun fired from a tank firearm, piece, small-arma portable gun gas guna gun that fires gas shells minute gun(military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral) Quaker guna dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood set gun, spring guna gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off whaling guna gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale autoloader, self-loadera firearm that reloads itself BB gunan air gun in which BBs are propelled by compressed air Bofors gunan automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun muzzle loaderan obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle paintball gunan air gun used in the game of paintball; designed to simulate a semiautomatic handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arma firearm that is held and fired with one hand repeater, repeating firearma firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading riflea shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore riot guna firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death scattergun, shotgunfirearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges smoothborea firearm that has no rifling .22, twenty-twoa .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle) arm, weapon, weapon system any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting 2n a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine Syn|Hyper grease-gun pump a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction 3n the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies two runners started before the gun a twenty gun salute Hyper discharge, firing, firing off the act of discharging a gun 4n a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) Syn|Hyper gunman shooter, shot a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot) 5n a professional killer who uses a gun Syn|Hyper gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman liquidator, manslayer, murderer a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) 6n large but transportable armament Syn|Hypo|Hyper artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance cannon a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels field artillery, field gunmovable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) four-pounderan artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds basiliskancient brass cannon culverina heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries harpoon guna cannon or similar gun that fires harpoons high-angle guna cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges long toma long swivel cannon formerly used by the navy armament weaponry used by military or naval force 7n a pedal that controls the throttle valve Syn|Hyper accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, throttle foot lever, foot pedal, pedal, treadle a lever that is operated with the foot 8v shoot with a gun Hypo|Hyper machine gun shoot with a machine gun blast, shoot fire a shot |
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