Значение

значений: 17
  1. A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.

    Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.

    Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.

  2. A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.

    A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

    Pistole, Handbüchse

    пистоле́тpistolét, стволstvol, пу́шкаpúška

    пістоле́тpistolét

  3. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

    Gewehr

    ружьёružʹjó

  4. A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.

    Geschütz, Kanone

    пу́шкаpúška, ору́диеorúdije

    a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

  5. A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.

    Geschütz, Kanone

    пу́шкаpúška, ору́диеorúdije

  6. (переносно)A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.

    21-gun salute

  7. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

    Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.

    air-pressure pellet gun

    zipgun

  8. A device or tool that projects a substance.

    squirt gun

    spray gun

  9. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.

    a rivet gun

    screw gun

  10. 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, Drew Kampion, surfline.com by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.

  11. A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

  12. (разговорное, метонимически)A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.

    Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.

    a professional killer who uses a gun

Примеры

предложений: 1683
  1. Put the gun on the table.

    Положи пистолет на стол. — Gruzilkin

    ukПоклади пістолет на стіл. — deniko

    deLeg die Pistole auf den Tisch. — MUIRIEL

  2. The gun went off by accident.

    Ружье выстрелило случайно. — sharptoothed

    deDer Schuss löste sich versehentlich. — samueldora

  3. Who does the gun belong to?

    Кому принадлежит ружьё? — marafon

    ukКому належить пістолет? — deniko

    deWem gehört das Gewehr? — MUIRIEL

  4. Don't point your gun at me.

    Не направляй на меня оружие. — marafon

    deRichte deine Waffe nicht auf mich. — Wolf

  5. Tom drew his gun and shot.

    Том вытащил свой пистолет и выстрелил. — marafon

Переводы

языков: 9
Українська
По значениям 1
portable, short weapon, for hand use:
Русский
По значениям 3
portable, short weapon, for hand use:
less portable, long weapon:
military: cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity:
Deutsch
По значениям 3
portable, short weapon, for hand use:
less portable, long weapon:
military: cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity:

Происхождение

From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly use

From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war (compare Nordic Gunn, a female name meaning “battle”). The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".

Related to ganef.

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Формы

мн. число: guns
Ед. числоgun
Мн. числоguns

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 16
Близкие по смыслу

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 267

Сочетаемость

шаблонов: 12
  • had a gun
  • carrying a gun
  • gun was loaded
  • buy a gun
  • a gun in
  • his gun and
  • cleaning his gun
  • his gun at
  • reloaded his gun
  • a gun owner
  • gun in his
  • own a gun

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