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UK
/ɡˈʌn/
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[ US /ˈɡən/ ]
[ US /ˈɡən/ ]
NOUN
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
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the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
two runners started before the gun
a twenty gun salute -
a pedal that controls the throttle valve
he stepped on the gas
VERB
- shoot with a gun
How To Use gun In A Sentence
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- Having a smooth bore . Use of a gun barrel.
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
- After only a few minutes my normally florid complexion had begun to resemble Florida. Times, Sunday Times
- The friend had also overheard the man say he had disposed of the handgun used in the crime, according to the in - formant. Just A 'Random' Crime
- Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
- Ingundis; and Leovigild, whose two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, were the issue of a former marriage.] [Footnote 128: Iracundiae furore succensa, adprehensam per comam capitis puellam in terram conlidit, et diu calcibus verberatam, ac sanguins cruentatam, jussit exspoliari, et piscinae immergi. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
- It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 percent of the gross national product in official aid.
- The gun can fire invisible rays.