English Dictionary

cannon

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkæn.ən/

名詞

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A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.

日本語の意味

大砲：砲身と後部の機構（撃発装置や基部キャップなど）を備え、銃、榴弾砲、迫撃砲などの一部として構成される火砲の全体的な組み立て。砲口附属部品が含まれる場合もある。

The museum displayed an antique naval cannon, complete with its breech mechanism and muzzle fittings, that had once been mounted on the frigate.

博物館には、かつてフリゲートに搭載されていた、砲身と閉鎖機構および銃口付属品を備えた古い海軍用砲が展示されていた。

意味（1）

A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.

意味（2）

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

意味（3）

(military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.

意味（4）

A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

意味（5）

A cannon bit.

意味（6）

(historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

意味（7）

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.

In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

意味（8）

(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.

He's got a cannon out in right.

意味（9）

(engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

意味（10）

(historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.

The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century.

意味（11）

(printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”)

意味（12）

(xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.

意味（13）

(US, slang) A pickpocket.

I also learned never to conspicuoulsy watch a cannon while he was working. Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be right, because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous.

cannons （ plural ）

cannon （ UK mainly plural ）