English Dictionary

gun

/ɡʌn/

noun

A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

He always carries a gun with him for self-defense.

意味（1）

A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

意味（2）

A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(figuratively) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(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.

意味（6）

Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.

air-pressure pellet gun... air rifle... BB gun... zipgun... nail gun... a potato gun...

意味（7）

A device or tool that projects a substance.

a squirt gun... a spray gun... a grease gun...

意味（8）

A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.

a rivet gun... a screw gun... a price-label gun...

a rivet gun... a screw gun... a price-label gun... }}

意味（9）

(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).

by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.

意味（10）

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

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[…].

意味（11）

(colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.

De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the real-life South Philly truck driver who moonlighted, over the second half of the 20th century, as a hired gun for the mafia.

意味（12）

(television) An electron gun.

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.

意味（13）

(colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.

意味（14）

(nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.

意味（15）

(colloquial) An expert.

意味（16）

(Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.