gun

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. (figuratively)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. (colloquial, metonymically)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

1. Put the gun on the table.

   Поклади пістолет на стіл.

   ruПоложи пистолет на стол.

   deLeg die Pistole auf den Tisch.

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2. Who does the gun belong to?

   Кому належить пістолет?

   ruКому принадлежит ружьё?

   deWem gehört das Gewehr?

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3. Have you ever shot a gun?

   Ти коли-небудь стріляв із пістолета?

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4. Tom has a large gun collection.

   Том має велику колекцію зброї.

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5. I have a permit for this gun.

   У мене є дозвіл на цю зброю.

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