(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.
Revolver
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Passage" is defined as one revolving trial without a pause over a fixed time (criterion time) and used as a behavioral unit of "stop and go".
(2) How many would have foreseen a national conversation – in public and in private – that revolves around the three Rs: renovation, recipes and resorts?
(3) Recurrent heroin detoxification, or the "revolving-door" process, is the treatment of choice for many addicts.
(4) How can she be so self-avowedly hip (Revolver, reefer) and yet so naive (swinging)?
(5) The current controversies revolving around the fetal treatment of hydrocephalus and obstructive uropathies (posterior urethral valves, prune belly syndrome, hydronephrosis) are compared and contrasted with the remarkably similar controversies that raged when fetal transfusions were first introduced.
(6) Reasons for deciding on vasectomy were varied, but generally revolved around the absolute effectiveness of the procedure and the need to unburden the wife of contraceptive responsibility.
(7) It is also the case that most of the aspects of movie-making – writing, production, direction, and so on – are dominated by men, and so it is not a surprise that the stories we see are those that tend to revolve around men," Amy Bleakley, the study's lead author, said in an email.
(8) Using data from a study of community mental health center inpatient utilization patterns, the authors demonstrate that centers face the problem of becoming revolving doors (for a recidivist population).
(9) Twelve hours ago Catton was a promising young writer, with two mostly well-received novels under her belt (the first, The Rehearsal , revolved around the figures on the periphery of a school sexual scandal).
(10) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
(11) The revolving door population comprised 1,397 patients with an incidence rate of 0.42 males and 0.32 females per 1,000.
(12) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
(13) Before Tuesday, the biggest news revolved around the Minnesota Timberwolves shopping around forward Kevin Love.
(14) From Boko Haram to the instability of the oil-producing Niger Delta, the political fight between incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and the lead opposition candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, revolves around who will ensure peace and stability.
(15) Hackney council's planning department is quick to hand out permission to large developers with ambitious high-rise plans, and rumours circulate among planning consultants and architects about the supposed revolving door between jobs in planning and developers' offices.
(16) At this time, the etiology of this disease process is unknown, but a likely explanation revolves around replacement of damaged epithelium by cells which undergo anaplasia due to repeated trauma.
(17) However, there are still unanswered questions revolving around the administration of the treatment such as optimal timing, treatment duration, specific drugs, and dose intensity.
(18) Could it be a happy coincidence?” Assange spoke of revolving doors and unkept promises.
(19) Best gadget: "Revolving number plates, naturally"; making the Aston Martin valid for Britain, France and Switzerland.
(20) Behind the sedately revolving capsules of the London Eye, plucky local resident George Turner has been holding another gargantuan development machine to account in a David-and-Goliath planning battle that reached the High Court.