Definizione monolingua

gun

gun (third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)

1. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.

   He gunned down the hitmen.

   The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.

2. To speed something up.

   He gunned the engine.

3. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.

   He’s gunning for you.

4. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.

   Hes been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.

5. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

gun (plural guns)

1. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02.
2. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02.
3. A very portable, short arm, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing ; handgun, revolver, pistol, Derringer, zipgun, so forth.
4. A less portable, long arm; bullet or projectile firing; rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun.

   This is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for fighting, one is for fun. (U.S. military cadence, used to make recruits memorize that the only correct term for a soldiers standard-issue firearm is a rifle, not a gun.)

5. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun; or, a home-made firearm such as a potato gun.
6. Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun.
7. A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun.
8. (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).

   2000: by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore. — Drew Kampion at surfline.com [1]

9. (cellular automata) A pattern that ""fires"" out other patterns.
   • 2000, Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature

     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...

10. (colloquial, usually plural) Biceps.

gun (comparative more gun, superlative most gun)

1. (Australian, slang) Very good or skilful.[2]

   Daniel is gun at basketball.

gun

1. without

   gun teagamh - without a doubt

gun

1. that

   an t-amadan sin gun do thagh thu - That fool that you voted for

   am fear gum pòs aig an deireadh na mìosa - that man that will marry at the end of the month

   an taigh gu bheil aice - that house that she has

Definizione dizionario gun

	fucile
	a less portable, long weapon

	cannone
	(military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity

	pistola
	a very portable, short weapon, for hand use

	arma da fuoco
	Arma che spara pallottole.
	A bullet firing weapon.

	obice
	(military) a cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more

arma

dare giri

revolver

rivoltella

schioppo

Altri significati:

(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).

Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun.

(cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

(colloquial, usually plural) Biceps.

To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.

(military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02.

A very portable, short arm, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing ; handgun, revolver, pistol, Derringer, zipgun, so forth.

shoot someone or something

(with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.

(Australian, slang) To be very good or the best at something.[1]

A less portable, long arm; bullet or projectile firing; rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun.

speed something up

(military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02.

To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.

To speed something up.

A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun.

Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun; or, a home-made firearm such as a potato gun.