gun
1. a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) (Freq. 72)
• Hypernyms:
weapon, arm, weapon system
• Hyponyms:
air gun, airgun, air rifle, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun,
flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun, breechloader,
cannon, firearm, piece, small-arm, gas gun, minute gun,
Quaker gun, set gun, spring gun, whaling gun
• Part Meronyms:
action, action mechanism, barrel, gun barrel, cartridge ejector,
ejector, cartridge extractor, cartridge remover, extractor, cartridge holder, cartridge clip,
clip, magazine, firing chamber, gun chamber, gunlock, firing mechanism,
gun muzzle, muzzle, gunsight, gun-sight, gun trigger, trigger,
safety catch, safety lock, stock, gunstock
2. large but transportable armament (Freq. 25)
• Syn:
artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance
• Hypernyms:
armament
• Hyponyms:
cannon, field artillery, field gun, four-pounder
• Part Holonyms:
battery
• Part Meronyms:
stock, gunstock
3. a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
• Syn:
gunman
• Hypernyms:
shot, shooter
4. a professional killer who uses a gun
• Syn:
gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun for hire, triggerman,
hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter
• Derivationally related forms:
shoot (for: shooter)
• Hypernyms:
murderer, liquidator, manslayer
5. a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- he stepped on the gas
• Syn:
accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle
• Derivationally related forms:
throttle (for: throttle), accelerate (for: accelerator)
• Hypernyms:
pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever
• Part Holonyms:
car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar,
airplane, aeroplane, plane
6. a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver;
forces grease into parts of a machine
• Syn:
grease-gun
• Hypernyms:
pump
7. the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- two runners started before the gun
- a twenty gun salute
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
discharge, firing, firing off
shoot with a gun
• See Also:
gun down
• Derivationally related forms:
gunner
• Hypernyms:
blast, shoot
• Hyponyms:
machine gun
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
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