Gun

Quick meaning: Gun is a noun meaning A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

Meaning

A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

More Meanings

1. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
2. (television) An electron gun.
3. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
4. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
5. 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.
6. (surfing) 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).
7. (colloquial, metonymic) 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.

Example Sentences

Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun

Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.

It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.

Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.

Word Forms

• guns
• gunning
• gunned

Synonyms for gun

Depending on context, synonyms include throttle, ordnance, artillery, torpedo, shooter, gas.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shooter, artillery, ordnance, gunslinger, throttle, gunman.

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