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barrel English

Meaning barrel meaning

What does barrel mean?
Definitions in simple English

barrel Noun

— A barrel is a tall and round container. — A barrel is the amount of something that is in a full barrel, or that would fit in the barrel. For example, a barrel of water or a barrel of beer. — The barrel of a gun is the part the bullet goes through. — The barrel of a clarinet is the part you connect the mouth piece. — The barrel of a horse or pony is its ribs. — A barrel is a solid metal tube that may be part of some machines.

barrel Verb

— If you barrel, you move very quickly.

barrel

— noun a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired — noun a cylindrical container that holds liquids — noun a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends — noun the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold — noun any of various units of capacity a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons — verb put in barrels

Synonyms barrel synonyms

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barrel English » English

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Topics barrel topics

What do people use barrel to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Work and occupation Tool

Container
States Big Big area

Big container, volume
Daily life

Household equipment
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

Conjugation barrel conjugation

How do you conjugate barrel?

barrel · verb

Examples barrel examples

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Simple sentences

One rotten apple spoils the barrel.
This is like shooting ducks in a barrel.
How many litres of oil are there in a barrel?
One bad apple spoils the barrel.
The wicked step-mother was taken before the judge, and put into a barrel filled with boiling oil and venomous snakes, and died an evil death.
We used a barrel for a makeshift table.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Clean the barrel of this rifle.
He had so many bruises he looked like he had been rolled down a hill in a barrel.
Roll the barrel over here.
Put all the rubbish in the barrel.
In 1973, oil cost three dollars per barrel; in 2008 - 80 dollars per barrel.

Movie subtitles

It's good that the barrel is aimed towards the enemy, - otherwise a tragedy could have happened.
A barrel?
You'll need a barrel.
Put the barrel against your temple and shoot.
Put then in the water barrel Clarence.
Take a bath. - What do you pay a barrel?
Lock, stock and barrel.
Lose that barrel.
Like spearing fish in a barrel.
Along comes this stranger who's going to clean me up. and you expect me to hand my planes over to him lock, stock and barrel.
We wash them out first, then we put them in there. and after we get the bucket full, then we put them in the barrel.
Oh, your chest is as strong as a barrel.
Except that we toy a little, spin a little, have a barrel of fun.
The barrel of my gun, it got so hot, I used it to warm up the rum toddies.
One thing. I don't see any barrel.
Yeah, you'll need a water barrel.
Buy him a barrel organ or give him a couple marks.
I was gonna bring the wife and kiddies. but the grocer couldn't spare another barrel.
He used to live in the next barrel to me.
Getting in that barrel?
Get back in that barrel. Don't, Denny!
What do you pay a barrel?
We've been sitting on a powder barrel for two weeks.
It's illegal, of course, but I'm the only one who recorks the barrel.
Afraid you folks are over a barrel.
More laughs than a barrel of monkeys.
Yeah, never mind. You learn a barrel of good things in reform school.
I wish it was as big as a barrel.
Now this was originally a Buntline special. but I had the barrel cut down about two inches and the trigger dogs smoothed down.
I guess the barrel's longer than yourn.
Why, the last trip there I seen him hit a rancher on the head with the barrel of his gun.
The barrel's buried under the bank.
You got him over a barrel, that's different.
The guy's had the fruit laying around for some time, so you got him over a barrel.
Maybe you'll find a rain barrel.
I'll miss my Barrel of Blood program.
I'm gonna buy me a barrel of vodka and get stinking.
They can pick us off here like a duck in a barrel.

News and current affairs

Bush's invocation of democracy to justify the invasion of Iraq implied that democracy could be imposed at the barrel of a gun.
The ECB's arguments look to me like scraping the bottom of the intellectual barrel.
The political economy of public-spending reform is tricky, and well-designed macroeconomic plans can be taken hostage by pork-barrel politics.
People want freedom, but not when it comes from the barrel of a US gun.
Arm some of these manufactured minority structures so that they can demand autonomy at the barrel of a gun, and you get the kind of chaos the Kremlin can use to reassert its control.
Minority and ethnic rights, it appears, are only demanded at the barrel of a gun, as in Chechnya and East Timor.
Democracy, human rights, and the development of civil society do not come from the barrel of a gun.
Mao was wrong: political blackmail seems to be a more effective tool than the barrel of a gun.
Oil prices have risen several dollars a barrel since late summer.
Unexpectedly, we find ourselves once again staring down the barrel of Malthus' gun.
MEXICO CITY - In El Salvador, for the first time ever in Latin America, a former political-military organization that tried to gain power through the barrel of a gun has achieved its aims through the ballot box.
One might object to comparing America's desire to export democracy at the barrel of a gun to Russia's imperial death spasms under Yeltsin and Putin.
They believe that responding to calls for stimulus would simply lead to more such calls, creating a log-rolling, pork-barrel dynamic in which any hope for fiscal consolidation is ruled out.
These government failures include rent-seeking, pork-barrel spending, social engineering, regulatory capture, and induced dependency.
Given Japan's huge accumulated national debts, the LDP can no longer appease the electorate through pork-barrel spending.
According to the Violations Documentation Center, the leading cause of death among Syrian civilians this year has been the indiscriminate use of aerial weapons - barrel bombs and chlorine gas dropped from helicopters by the Syrian army.
But it is respect for Russia's culture that matters most to them, and such does not come at the barrel of a gun.
Worldwide dependence on fossil fuels costs far more than the price of a barrel of crude oil.
The debacle of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 should have taught us once and for all the peril of talking only through the barrel of a gun to those whose behavior disgusts us.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deployed poison gas and later barrel bombs filled with nails and metal fragments against his rebellious population.
But a president who has barrel bombed his own citizens cannot conceivably be part of a longer-term peaceful settlement.
Fossil fuel energy is expensive and contributes to climate change. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves once again staring down the barrel of Malthus' gun.

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