(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.
Javascript
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead of dropping banners, as Brotherston’s ISP did, it injects malicious JavaScript.
(2) He speaks nine languages, but they don't help on holidays as they are the "C++, Perl, PHP, Erlang, Java, Python, JavaScript, ActionScript" codes.
(3) Photograph: Unity It's a bit of a cheat adding this one to the list as Unity uses C# and JavaScript and does require at least a basic knowledge of code.
(4) Another good alternative would be Unity, which can be coded in C# and JavaScript - both very useful languages to learn.
(5) It is mainly used for text-based games, and it's possible to fine-tune your game with images, CSS and JavaScript if you have the know-how.
(6) The focus is on learning programming skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and other languages, with a host of classes to then push on: from applied cryptography through to robotics AI.
(7) Rendering engines figure out how to interpret the HTML, CSS and Javascript that makes up a page, and decide how to lay out the page.
(8) He can do this because Kano has made it instinctive: Kano Blocks, which he is using, represents computer code (Python, JavaScript, with more to come) as visual jigsaw pieces.
(9) The tool uses Google’s Blockly programming interface, with children manipulating virtual blocks to create code, rather than diving straight into a language like JavaScript.
(10) Manipulating jigsaw-like blocks which represent JavaScript and Python code, it helps them create their own programs, with a Minecraft tie-in ensuring the popular creation game is available too.
(11) Facebook scams are the most common online attack method, according to the 2016 edition of technology firm Cisco’s Annual Security Report , with 33,681,000 examples identified by the company’s researchers – just ahead of JavaScript attacks in its malware chart.
(12) Hakitzu Elite: Robot Hackers Hakitzu Elite is one of the most intriguing apps trying to teach children to code: in this case, JavaScript by getting them to build and battle giant (virtual) robots against their friends.
(13) Section 3.3.1 of the document stipulates that "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++ and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the documented APIs (eg, applications that link to documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)."
(14) June 11, 2014 The flaw leads to vulnerable versions of Tweetdeck (3.7.1-19002e5) running javascript code contained in tweets from other sites.
(15) Kano OS also includes multimedia packages, plus Kano Blocks, an open source visual programming language that can output code in Python and JavaScript among other languages, and can be used for all sorts of things including game creation, plugging directly into things like Pong and Minecraft.
(16) Fake ad impressions The bots are tailored specifically for creating fake ad impressions: "individual bots run [Adobe] Flash and execute Javascript [used to display many ads]," the researchers note.
(17) Simon Barratt: There are so many different ways to get started now, from a simple visual language like Scratch to a simpler text based language like Javascript or the more advanced C#.
(18) Disable Javascript in your Tor browser for the sake of your own safety."