gun
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis
Proto-Germanic *gunþiz
Old Norse gunnr
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís
Proto-Germanic *hildiz
Old Norse hildr
Old Norse Gunnhildrder.
Middle English gunne
English gun
From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war (compare Nordic Gunn, a female name meaning “battle”). The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".
Inflected forms:
form: guns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gunned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gunned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
pos: noun
examples: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.
gloss: A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 21-gun salute
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
gloss: A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
pos: noun
examples: air-pressure pellet gun
zipgun
nail gun
gloss: A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
pos: noun
examples: squirt gun
spray gun
grease gun
gloss: A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
pos: noun
examples: a rivet gun
screw gun
a price-label gun
The piercing gun cannot be disinfected and therefore there is a risk of transmitting hepatitis and other infections.
gloss: A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
pos: noun
examples: 2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
gloss: A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
pos: noun
examples: The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream[…].
It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.
Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun
gloss: A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
metonymically
examples: Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
[…] we had one lawman - Sheriff Dirty Herwick, "the slowest gun in the West." Dirty was a kindly man, a java addict whose knees knocked at the sight of blood. Back then, we winched our own car wrecks out of ravines and chased away mountain lions with kitchen brooms.
"I must say, I quite enjoy having the best detective in the business, and the fastest gun in the West, on my payroll." "First of all," Clint said tightly, "I'm not the fastest gun in the West, and second, I'm not on your payroll." Royce held up both of his hands. "I didn't mean to offend you, sir[…]"
"They say he's the fastest gun in the whole goddamn world." "I thought Blackie was supposed to be the best," Harlow remarked. “That's what all you chaps keep tellin' me." "Blackie is the fastest gun in the Oklahoma Territory,"[…]
They want to take on the fastest gun in town.
"He's a fast gun out of Arizona."
gloss: An electron gun.
pos: noun
examples: The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.
gloss: The biceps.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural-normally
gloss: Violent blasts of wind.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
gloss: To shoot with a gun.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What's the use of foolishness like calling a gentleman bad names when he can gun you in the dark and you're no good even at striking matches?
gloss: To cause to speed up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He gunned the engine.
gloss: To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: We're all gunning for you.
gloss: (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Australian John Landy, one of Bannister’s rivals also gunning to break the four-minute barrier, took more than a second off the Briton’s time in Turku, Finland, a few weeks later.
gloss: To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
pos: verb
examples: He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
gloss: To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
pos: verb
gloss: Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
slang
examples: […] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.
Derived words: Abus gun
aerogun
air gun
airgun
air-gun
Alekhine's gun
antigun
anti-gun
Armstrong gun
balling gun
Barisal gun
BB gun
big gun
blow from a gun
blowgun
blow gun
Bofors gunn
Bren gun
bum gun
burp gun
cap gun
cap-gun
caulking gun
cemetery gun
chain gun
chase gun
Chekhov's gun
chicken gun
chow gun
clam gun
coach gun
coilgun
coil gun
Costain gun
costain gun
cow gun
cryogun
Dane gun
dart gun
Deer gun
deluge gun
DIY gun
drop gun
eat one's gun
elder-gun
electric gun
electron gun
elephant gun
evening gun
fiber gun
field gun
finger gun
flag gun
flame gun
flare gun
flash gun
flashgun
footgun
Gardner gun
Gatling gun
Gauss gun
gene gun
ghost gun
girls with guns
give a gun
give it the gun
glider gun
glue gun
go great guns
gravity gun
grease gun
great gun
great guns
gun barrel
gun-barrel
gunbarrel
gunbattle
gunbearer
gunbelt
gunbird
gunboat
gun-brig
gun-broke
gunbroke
gun brush
gun carriage
guncase
gun-centric
Gunchester
gun club
gun control
gun-control
gun cotton
guncotton
gun culture
gun deck
gun dog
gundog
gunfight → gunfighter
gunfighting
gunfire
gunfit
gunfitting
gunflash
gunflint
gun for
gun-for-hire
gunfucker
gun fu
gun-fu
gunful
gun furniture
gun grabber
gunhand
gunhandler
gun-happy
gunhawk
gunhouse
gun-howitzer
gunite
gun jumping
gun kata
gun-kata
gun lap
gun layer
gun-layer
gunlayer
gun-laying
gunless
gun licence
gunlike
gunline
gun line
gun lobby
gunlock
gunloon
gunloop
gunmaker
gunmaking
gunman
gunmanship
gun mantlet
gun metal
gun-metal
gunmetal
gun money
gunnage
gunnel
gunner
gunnery
gunnish
gunowner
gunpad
gun paper
gun-paper
gunperson
gun pit
gunplay
gunpoint
gunpoke
gunport
gunpowder
gun powder
gunpower
gunproof
gunrack
gun range
gun rights
gun-rights
gunroom
gunrunner
gunrunning
gun sanctuary
guns and butter
guns and roses
guns blazing
gun shearer
gunshed
gunshield
gunship
gunshop
gunshot
gun show
gunshy
gun-shy
gun shy
gunsight
gunsite
gunslinger
gunslinging
gunsman
gunsmith
gunsmithy
gunsmoke
gun sock
gunster
gun-stick
gunstick
gun stock
gunstock
gunstone
guntard
gun time
gun-toting
gun-type → gun-type bomb
gunwale
gunwise
gunwoman
gunwork
gunworks
gun worm
gunwright
gunzel
handgun
harpoon gun
Heaf gun
heat gun
hired gun
hold a gun to someone's head
hookgun
Hotchkiss gun
hot glue gun
hotgun
is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
jigger gun
jump the gun
junk gun
K-gun
kit gun
Krupp gun
laser gun
laser-gun
lasergun
Lewis gun
light gun
light machine gun
line gun
lock pick gun
long gun
Lyle gun
machinegun
machine gun
machine-gun
magazine gun
massage gun
Maxim gun
minigun
mini-gun
minute gun
morning gun
mountain gun
mouse gun
mousetrap gun
nailgun
nail gun
Napoleon gun
needle gun
net gun
noon gun
Nordenfelt gun
opening gun
organ gun
out-gun
paint gun
Paixhans gun
pawgun
pellet gun
pen gun
physics gun
pick gun
piercing gun
pill gun
pivot gun
poacher's gun
popgun
pop gun
potgun
price gun
pro-gun
prop gun
pumpgun
punt gun
put a gun to someone's head
quaker gun
Quaker gun
radar gun
rail gun
railgun
railroad gun
railway gun
ray gun
ray-gun
raygun
rivet gun
robogun
Rodman gun
run and gun
run-and-gun
sandgun
scattergun
scatter gun
scatter-gun
scrub gun
shotgun
shot-gun
six-gun
slam gun
sleeve gun
slum gun
smoking gun
snake gun
snap gun
snowgun
snow gun
son of a gun → son-of-a-gun stew
space gun
spear gun
speargun
speed gun
spike someone's guns
splatter gun
splatter-gun
spray gun
spring gun
spud gun
squirt gun
staple gun
starting gun
steam gun
Sten gun
stick by
to one's guns
studgun
stun gun
stutter gun
submachine gun
suction gun
supergun
sure as a gun
swivel gun
tattoo gun
temperature gun
Thompson submachine gun
time gun
time-gun
Tommy gun
top gun
under the gun
up-gun
wall gun
watch gun
water gun
wheelgun
Whitworth gun
wire gun
Woolworth gun
you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
young gun
zip gun
zipgun
gun room
gun down
gun it
gun off
gun up
outgun
Translations:
lang: French
word: flingue
lang: Norwegian
word: børse
lang: Polish
word: strzelba
lang: Swedish
word: bössa