English > gun: 8 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel). |
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| Parts | action, action mechanism | The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism |
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| barrel, gun barrel | A tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired |
| cartridge ejector, ejector | A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing |
| cartridge extractor, cartridge remover, extractor | A mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector |
| cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip, magazine | A metal frame or container holding cartridges |
| firing chamber, gun chamber | chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge |
| gun muzzle, muzzle | The open circular discharging end of a gun / gun |
| gun trigger, trigger | lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun |
| gunlock, firing mechanism | The action that ignites the charge in a firearm |
| gunsight, gun-sight | A sight used for aiming a gun |
| safety catch, safety lock | guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired |
| stock, gunstock | The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun |
| Narrower | Quaker gun | A dummy gun / gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood |
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| air gun, airgun, air rifle | A gun that propels a projectile by compressed air |
| antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun | artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes |
| breechloader | A gun / gun that is loaded at the breech |
| cannon | Heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane |
| cannon | Heavy gun fired from a tank |
| firearm, piece, small-arm | A portable gun |
| gas gun | A gun that fires gas shells |
| minute gun | (military) gun / gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral) |
| set gun, spring gun | A gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off |
| whaling gun | A gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale |
| Broader | weapon, arm, weapon system | Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting |
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| Spanish | arma de fuego, arma, cañón, escopeta, obús, pistola |
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| Catalan | arma de foc, canó, escopeta, obús, pistola |
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| Verbs | gun | shoot with a gun |
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