What's the difference between caliber and gun?

Caliber


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Calibre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Metabolism-mediated vasodilatation, with adenosine as principal mediator, essentially concerns the small-caliber intramyocardial arterioles and is the predominant regulatory system in normal subjects.
  • (2) In the 5-day-old rats, the caliber spectra of myelinated and nonmedullated axons overlapped in the 0.49-0.83 micron2 range and their microtubular densities were similar.
  • (3) We report three patients who had small caliber feeding tubes passed through the tracheobronchial tree perforating into the pleural space.
  • (4) It demonstrated that calibers of renal parenchymal vasculature were narrowed.
  • (5) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
  • (6) In our patients, 48% had stones in the gallbladder smaller than the caliber of the cystic duct.
  • (7) The advantages of this technique are: the abdominal aorta of rats proximally to renal arteries is characterized by a well developed adventitia and its caliber is double of that of infrarenal aorta; b) the left renal vein is more easily access of caval vein with similar caliber; c) the use of left renal vein and the widening of pulmonary artery permits a wide anastomosis; d) the so obtained heart position is better than the transversal one; e) the calibers of all anastomosis is so wide to permit the realization of this technique without extreme optical magnification.
  • (8) Two cases involving deadly bullet shots to the head are reported (entry wounds at the right temple, shots fired at absolutely close range, 7.65 or 9 mm caliber).
  • (9) In 55 patients, there was greater than 75 percent restoration of the luminal caliber ("successful"), and this group was compared to 14 patients in whom the lumen was not restored ("unsuccessful").
  • (10) Simultaneously the great arteries lengthen at a faster rate than the rest of the heart; and there is also an increase in the caliber and wall thickness of the great arteries.
  • (11) To establish the conditions for achieving immediate and complete endothelial cell coverage of the luminal surfaces of small-caliber (internal diameter:4 mm) vascular grafts in vitro, the attachment and spread of endothelial cells cultured from human umbilical veins to expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and knitted Dacron grafts was studied.
  • (12) Intra-epithelial beaded nerve fibers, subepithelial fibers, and large-caliber nerves in the hilus region and tracheal wall were also CGRP-IR, and immunoreactive nerves were occasionally found in close association with NEB at the basal pole.
  • (13) Although the common bile ducts were generally quite uniform in caliber, there were instances where each portion was the largest diameter in an individual case.
  • (14) The ability to visualize small-caliber needles within the fluid space further enhances the effectiveness of this technique.
  • (15) Percutaneous hepatobiliary interventional procedures that have received considerable attention in the past year include technical refinements of the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure used in patients with portal hypertension and esophageal varices, transshunt embolotherapy of persistent varices in patients with small-caliber mesocaval shunts, percutaneous and transcatheter embolotherapy of hepatic malignancies in patients with primary or metastatic lesions, and MR angiography in the preoperative evaluation of patients awaiting liver transplantation.
  • (16) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
  • (17) Changes in physical forces, like sudden increase of transmural pressure or flow velocity (shear stress), trigger changes in blood vessel diameter; the former reduces it while the latter increases vessel caliber.
  • (18) These constrictions may be drastic, narrowing down the caliber of the vessel up to 50%.
  • (19) These studies were carried out in ureters of normal caliber and animals otherwise free of disease.
  • (20) In the clot group, the mean vessel caliber of the cerebral arteries on the right side (clot side) of the circle of Willis showed significant (P less than 0.01) reduction (more than 40%) as compared with the values on the contralateral, non-clot side.

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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