What's the difference between gunfire and gunshot?
Gunfire
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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.