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gun English

Meaning gun meaning

What does gun mean?
Definitions in simple English

gun Noun

— A gun is a weapon that sends bullets through its metal tube.

gun Verb

— To make an engine work fast by opening its throttle. I gunned the engine and passed his car. — If someone is gunned down, they are shot by something, usually a gun. He was gunned down by a hitman.

gun

— noun a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) — noun (= artillery) large but transportable armament — noun the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies two runners started before the gun a twenty gun salute — verb shoot with a gun — noun (= grease-gun) a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine — noun a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) — noun a professional killer who uses a gun — noun (= gas, throttle) a pedal that controls the throttle valve he stepped on the gas

Synonyms gun synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as gun?

gun English » English

rifle cannon pistol musket firearm weapon shotgun gunman shooter ordnance bow artillery shoot handgun grease-gun triggerman torpedo throttle hitman hit man hired gun gunslinger gun for hire gas weaponry shot gun rod revolver piece of ordnance piece lance heavy weapon gas pedal fire carbine ball accelerator pedal accelerator tool syringe squirt squib spray repair spray spear small arms siege weapon shot shoot down sharpshoot

Topics gun topics

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

Weapon, shoot
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal
Person Sense, perceive See

Something used to see
Person Life Die

Kill
States Time Relative time Right time

Early

Conjugation gun conjugation

How do you conjugate gun?

gun · verb

Examples gun examples

How do I use gun in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Put the gun on the table.
I aimed my gun at the target.
I keep a gun in my car.
Tom held a gun to Mary's forehead.
Gun worship is the religion which requires the continuing sacrifice of other people's children.
Tom sold me a gun.
He threatened us with the gun.
Watch out, the man has a gun.
They heard a gun go off in the distance.
Bill was killed with a gun.
A man with a gun urged him into the car.
The man suddenly started shooting his gun.
The man aimed a gun at the policeman.
The man wore a gun on his hip.
The man put the gun against his forehead and squeezed the trigger.
The gun went off by accident.
Who does the gun belong to?
This gun has a range of 300 meters.
The robber aimed his gun at the police officer.
Don't play with that gun. It's not a toy.
The policeman wrested a gun from the murderer.
The police compared the fingerprints on the gun with those on the door.
The police demanded that the criminal hand over the gun to them.

Movie subtitles

Leave the gun..
And if you just put down the gun I'll show you. Oh!
This is a pretty special gun.
With the vertical gun loaded and the impact chamber set, it's time to test and see if the organic material laced onto the projectile can survive a high-speed impact.
Um. (clears throat) I want to grab your gun.
No, I mean, I mean I'm having, like, a lot of thoughts about grabbing your gun.
Were you gonna grab his gun?
Like the chambers of a gun.
A workman informs the astronomers that if they would ascend to the roof, they will witness a splendid spectacle: the casting of the gun.
At the signal, a mass of molten steel is directed from each furnace into the mold for the gun.
A number of gunners are pushing the shell up an incline into the mouth of the gun.
The gun is fired and the shell disappears into space.
Micah, give me the gun.
I will kill you with my gun!
I did realize that he'd jumped the gun.
Are you just as handy with a gun as you was?
I don't mind fists or feet, or even a gun.
Say, Henry, will you put a new cap nipple on this gun?
Here's your gun, boy!
If anybody turns yellow and squeals my gun's gonna speak its peace.
Drop that gun before we start shooting.
This gun is loaded.
Watch me, and I'll show you how to play with a gun.
You take this gun. You're gonna need it more than I will.
Better than hiding behind a machine gun.
I have charted all gun emplacements and air batteries.
I've lugged a gun around a little.
When I was only still up high he gave me my first gun.
I want to grab your gun.
Tima, get the gun!
Oh, you don't get a gun for a long while yet.
A gun!
Get rid of the gun.
Well, I'm a son of a gun.
He'll be with the troops that go in front of the gun carriage with the Queen's coffin.
There goes my gun.
All right, all right, I admit all that. You found me in their joint with a gun.
Put that gun away.

News and current affairs

We scratch our heads about America's gun laws.
The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another - roughly one a month this year alone.
He instituted a severe crackdown on gun ownership, and forced would-be gun owners to submit to a rigorous application process, and to document why they would need a gun.
Conditions for gun ownership in Australia are now very strict, and the registration and approval process can take a year or more.
The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.
The US also developed a particular populist belief that gun ownership constitutes a vital protection against government tyranny.
Since citizens' militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
As a result, gun ownership has become perversely linked to freedom in the vast gun-owning American sub-culture.
The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world's vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.
Today it is Zimbabwe's press that is under the gun.
Convincing great powers to eliminate their nuclear arsenals might seem as politically fanciful as pushing gun-control legislation through the US Congress, but on that issue, too, Obama has made clear that he is willing to try.
But most Serbs were beginning to believe that the ballot and not the gun was becoming the dominant tool of politics.
According to a 2007 survey, the United States is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of gun ownership, with 90 guns for every 100 citizens.
With these casualty figures, one would think that gun-control laws would be a much higher national priority in America than the far more loudly hyped fight against terrorism.
After all, ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left roughly 3,000 people dead, gun violence has killed almost 140,000 and injured more than two million.
Why are gun-control laws so hard to pass?
One big reason is the gun lobby, which is one of the most heavily funded in America.
Indeed, many argue that the risk of gun-related deaths and injuries is the price that Americans must pay for the right to bear arms, which they regard as a powerful defense against tyranny.
But few such restrictions have been legislated - or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.
But little US coverage following a gun massacre assesses the impact of America's health-care system, which is unaffordable to many, especially for those with mental-health problems.
An iconic campaign poster captured the public mood: a picture of a gun-slinging Gary Cooper as the sheriff in the classic western High Noon.
David Cameron was polished but vague, and the jowly Brown came across as gun loaded with statistics.
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