English Dictionary

gunfire

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡʌnfʌɪə/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 俗語

Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report. / (chiefly military) The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

日本語の意味

銃から発射される弾丸やその発射音、すなわち銃撃音。 / 主に軍事的な文脈で、剣や銃剣といった従来の武器に対して、火薬を用いる兵器（主に大砲など）の使用を指す。

We froze when the sudden crack of gunfire echoed through the alley.

路地に突然響いた銃声に私たちは凍りついた。

意味（1）

Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.

Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.

意味（2）

(chiefly military) The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.

意味（3）

(military) The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.

Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim and a padlock, the key of which is to be kept by the Porter on duty or by the Police Guard who is to release them at gunfire in the morning.

意味（4）

(army slang) Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.

They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.

gunfires （ plural ）