(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.
Gunshot
Definition:
(n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.
(n.) The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
(a.) Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
(2) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.
(3) Long-term results of treatment of gunshot wounds of the liver are not considered to be satisfactory.
(4) In one horse, the superior aspect of the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw below the coronoid process revealed a gunshot wound; the other skeletons showed no evidence of trauma.
(5) Oleg Konstantinov, editor of local news site dumskaya.net, who was in hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and leg, and splinter wounds in his arm, said he had sent most of his reporters home for the two-day holiday.
(6) Traumatic endothelial rings were observed in the cornea obtained from a 4-year-old boy after a fatal gunshot wound to the forehead.
(7) Barry Roux, Burger added: "I heard petrified screaming before the gunshots and just after the gunshots.
(8) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(9) Gunshots were heard during the operation and a police officer was seen injured on a live television report on FMTV cable channel.
(10) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(11) It is indicated that in vitro and at implantation in preliminary infected ordinary and gunshot osseous wounds in rabbits and dogs gentacycol inhibits the growth of aerobic and, that is especially important, anaerobic microflora, limits the development of inflammatory Process and stimulates, to a certain extent, reparative osteogenesis.
(12) Forty patients with 41 fractures of the tibia produced by civilian gunshot injuries were reviewed.
(13) Between 1980 and 1988, 127 patients with 131 low-velocity gunshot wounds to the forearm were treated.
(14) Most organisations would not send humanitarian workers into the field before discussing with them how to handle an incident of shelling or how to react when gunshots are heard.
(15) Overall mortality was 130, 8.7%; 9.5% for gunshot wounds, 3.4% for stab wounds, and 2.5% for blunt trauma.
(16) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
(17) Case report on five fatal gunshot injuries in which discharge of the cranial contents had occurred owing to a skull blast.
(18) Gunshot residue below the surface of the skin is typical of a contact gunshot wound.
(19) Nine cases of multiple-shot suicides (suicides involving more than two gunshot wounds) examined in the last 6 years at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
(20) The authors report on a gunshot wound of the foot with subsequent infection and nonunion.