What's the difference between blaster and gun?

Blaster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a pretty big difference.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Xbox One S is smaller than the original, can be stored vertically or horizontally and has features like an IR blaster for a remote control.
  • (2) Just when DID our Frankie-Boy last succeed at such a master-blaster in an England Shirt?
  • (3) AMC says ticket holders must avoid wearing masks or face paint, while Cinemark has banned lightsabers and blasters, and Bow Tie has placed a restriction on Jedi-style cloaks.
  • (4) Han definitely shoots first (and asks questions later) Lucas and fans have debated for decades whether the sardonic space scoundrel was originally intended to shoot bounty hunter Greedo only after the alien fired his blaster first in the Mos Eisley Cantina in 1977’s saga opener A New Hope, but Abrams clearly has no such qualms about showing the elder Solo as a quick-on-the-draw kind of guy.
  • (5) James, a former Liverpool and England goalkeeper, is the player-manager of the Kerala Blasters side in the Indian Premier League and has been a regular pundit on television.
  • (6) Based on the German Mauser C96 handgun, Solo's modified "DL-44" blaster was used in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's Return of the Jedi.
  • (7) A blaster used by Harrison Ford's Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy is to go on sale for at least $200,000 via an online auction.
  • (8) The air-abrasive blaster has become an indispensable tool in the prosthodontic laboratory.
  • (9) This article describes a method for making a relatively small, fully functional shell blaster for less than one hundred dollars.
  • (10) We read his book, Kill Bin Laden, and made an inquiry on his interest and availability.” The result is that every gun, vehicle and aircraft in the game has a basis in current weapons research – whether that’s the Breacher pump action directed energy shotgun or the XS1 Vulcan, effectively an airborne laser blaster.
  • (11) The top 12 list in full Doggie Doo, John Adams, RRP £22.99 Fijit Friends, Mattel, RRP £54.99 Fireman Sam Pontypandy Rescue Set, Character, RRP £29.99 Kidizoom Twist, VTech, RRP £49.99 LeapPad Explorer, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £79.99 Lets Rock Elmo, Hasbro, RRP £69.99 Milky the Bunny, Flair, RRP £59.99 Monster High Lagoona's Hydration Station, Mattel, RRP £39.99 Moshling Tree House, Vivid, RRP £18.99 Nerf Vortex Nitron Blaster, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Ninjago Fire Temple, Lego, RRP £91.99 Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber Assortment, Hasbro, RRP £39.99
  • (12) The blaster's guide price of $200,000 to $300,000 (£121,890 to £182,835) compares favourably with the cost of a lightsabre used by Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
  • (13) "My memories of WC2006 are of countless speculative attempts by Lampard and Ballack to greedily try a solo master-blaster into the net," recalls Laurence Welford.
  • (14) Incidence of multiple myeloma was significantly increased for a number of occupational groups such as farmers, smelter and metallurgy workers, and miners-quarrymen-rock blasters.
  • (15) With the purpose of determine the type of etch solution that produce the best amount of micropores in standed porcelain laminates veneers we can conclude that: to the internal etched of the standard porcelain laminates veneer, the utilization of fluorhidric acid is the most convenient, also is necessary the previons stand blaster with aluminum oxide of 25 um to increase the retentive capacity over the etch surface.
  • (16) The "dream toys" chosen by the Toy Retailers Association (TRA) also include favourites such as Fireman Sam, Elmo and a Nerf gun – the Vortex Nitron Blaster.
  • (17) What they have done as soon as the deal was implemented is to employ an individual with a reputation for being a ‘union blaster’.
  • (18) "This non-firing blaster was created for The Empire Strikes Back and was also used in Return of the Jedi," reads the lot description.
  • (19) Click here to view Ford and Chewbacca's confrontation on Jimmy Kimmel Live A septuagenarian Solo might not be quite as quick with a blaster these days, but the reaction to rumours of Ford's potential involvement in the new Disney take on the long-running space opera has been universally positive.
  • (20) As blaster fire explodes in green and red, you can see the reflection.

Gun


Definition:

  • () of Gin
  • (n.) A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
  • (n.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
  • (n.) Violent blasts of wind.
  • (v. i.) To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (2) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (5) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
  • (6) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (7) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
  • (8) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (9) Asked if France had “jumped the gun and didn’t tell us”, Fox said he was notaware of anyone in government who knew about the impending airstrikes.
  • (10) "He [Copernicus] stuck to his guns when he came under fire for it, and he was right."
  • (11) In combination, the features of these vectors afford useful advantages over expression vectors previously described, especially for the application of shot-gun cloning of genomic DNA to generate expression libraries.
  • (12) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
  • (13) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
  • (14) Regarding the shots fired from Brelo’s gun, O’Donnell said they could have been the ones causing death, but so could others fired by other officers before his shots from the hood of the vehicle.
  • (15) He casts his history of bipartisan negotiation as a form of steamrolling practicality, and many of his actual policies, save regarding gun control, fit comfortably within the far right framework.
  • (16) Trying to escape, speaker Mohammed Magariaf's jeep was hit by a fusillade of machine-gun fire.
  • (17) When the vote came, she and the other gun law advocates who crowded into the public gallery had been told not to talk, stand or take notes.
  • (18) Following a mass killing at a Colorado cinema in July, applications to buy guns rose more than 40% in a week.
  • (19) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
  • (20) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.

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