(n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The RF voltage on certain parts on the chassis could be as high as 200 V. In order to reduce these voltages and the stray fields the machine should be equipped with a "large capacitive shield" in cases where this is possible.
(2) "High-tech transmission, chassis, suspension, all new interior, bucket seats, dash, 440 horsepower, 5.7-litre engine," he says, quick-fire, sounding every bit the used car salesman.
(3) These include the use of lightweight composite materials rather than steel in the chassis, and the company's plan to lease rather then sell their cars, something that removes a major financial barrier for the consumer.
(4) But the company’s carbon fibre chassis are currently manufactured abroad by a supplier.
(5) The McLaren F1 was the world’s first road car to be built with a carbon fibre chassis and every car built more recently by McLaren Automotive has the same.
(6) Once you have arranged eight blocks of drink, you hit the serve button, and the drink is mixed for you inside the chassis of an old PC; a pipe fed through the disk tray delivers the mixture into a cup.
(7) Amid the charred chassis and broken glass there is a vital point of principle to salvage: in certain conditions rioting is not just justified but may also be necessary, and effective.
(8) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(9) The 5% tariff would be phased out over five years for windscreens, petrol car engines, batteries and chassis.
(10) They put the engine and the chassis together very late, in Jerez.
(11) The object reveals itself to be a monster truck painted in pastel colours, its chassis raised high above gargantuan tyres.
(12) Functional homology at the level of protein secondary structure with Actinomyces viscosus T14V type 1 fimbriae (M. K. Yeung, B. M. Chassy, and J. O. Cisar, J.
(13) In 2009 Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, was fitted with an i-limb, a state-of-the-art bionic prosthesis developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, that comes with an aluminium chassis and 24 different grip patterns.
(14) The issue of chassis leakage currents flowing through areas on the surfaces of patients' bodies is again being discussed, probably because of increasing acceptance of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard 601-1, the use of more instruments with computational capability but with generally higher chassis leakage currents at the bedside, the absence of evidence that the 500-microampere chassis current limitation of IEC 601-1 has been harmful, and the lack of data to substantiate the lower limit currently applied in the United States.
(15) In the past, items such as car chassis, fridges and household goods as well as tyres and Vélib hire bikes have been retrieved.
(16) Measurement of emissions of incomplete combustion products as determined on a chassis dynamometer provides knowledge of the chemical composition of the particle-associated organics.
(17) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(18) A few yards on, an official ran a mirror underneath the chassis and a large Alsatian dog sniffed around its wheels.
(19) The fabric seat is made from 62 post-consumer recycled drink bottles and the chassis from recycled polypropylene.
(20) A new one-compartmental movable disinfectant dA-4 unit mounted on the chassis of the motor car gA3-53-12 with high technical performance is characterized by the improved layout of the equipment and can be run in the foci of infection at any time of the year.
Gun
Definition:
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(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.