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gun

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English gunne, gonne, from Lady Gunilda, a huge crossbow with a powerful shot, with the second part of the term being of Old Norse origin. It was later used to denote firearms. The name Gunnhildr and its multiple variations are derived from Old Norse gunnr (battle, war) + hildr (battle), which makes it a pleonasm. In the given context the woman's name means battle maid. See also Hilda, Gunilda, Gunhild, Gunhilda, Gunnhildr.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: g?n, IPA(key): /??n/
  • Rhymes: -?n

Noun

gun (plural guns)

  1. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
    Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.
    1. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
    2. A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
    3. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
    4. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
    5. (figuratively) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.Wp
      • 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.
  2. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
    1. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
    2. A device or tool that projects a substance.
    3. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
  3. (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, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
      by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
  4. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
    • 2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, p.74:
      Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun
  5. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
  6. (television) An electron gun.
    • 2012, Brand Fortner, ?Theodore E. Meyer, Number by Colors (page 202)
      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.
  7. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
  8. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
  9. (colloquial) An expert.
  10. (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: gon
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, either literally (with a firearm) or figuratively (such as to put an end to something).
    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.
    He's 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.
  6. (transitive, intransitive, prison slang) To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
    • 2010, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report
      [] all inmates participated in such conduct, and [] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.
Derived terms
  • gun down
  • gun it
  • outgun
Translations

Etymology 2

From gunna, from gonna, from going to

Verb

gun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of going to.
    I'm gun go get da gun from da closet.

References

Anagrams

  • GNU, Ngu, UNG, Ung, gnu, nug

Bissa

Noun

gun

  1. night

Cornish

Noun

gun f (plural gonyow)

  1. plain

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian ??? (gün).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ku?/, [k?(?)]

Adjective

gun

  1. deep

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??n/

Verb

gun

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gunnen
  2. imperative of gunnen

Japanese

Romanization

gun

  1. R?maji transcription of ??

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ???? (kun)

Noun

gun

  1. goods for sale

References

  • Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?[2], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Mandarin

Romanization

gun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of g?n.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gùn.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Noun

gun m (genitive singular gunney, plural gunnaghyn)

  1. Alternative form of gunn

Middle English

Noun

gun

  1. Alternative form of gunne

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?n

Noun

gun m

  1. testicle, ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish co.

Alternative forms

  • gu
  • gum

Conjunction

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

Etymology 2

From Old Irish cen.

Preposition

gun

  1. without
    gun teagamh - without a doubt

Synonyms

  • às aonais

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

gun

  1. neither...nor
    • 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:

Usage notes

  • Triggers lenition

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magnum

English

Etymology

From Latin magnum (great)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?mæ?n?m/

Noun

magnum (plural magnums or magna)

  1. A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
  2. (firearms) A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
  3. (by extension) A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.

Derived terms

  • belted magnum

Related terms

  • magnum opus

Translations

Further reading

  • magnum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Mangum

Finnish

Noun

magnum

  1. magnum (bottle size)
  2. short for magnumpullo (bottle)

Declension

Compounds

  • magnumpullo

French

Etymology

From Latin magnum (great)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma?.n?m/

Noun

magnum m (plural magnums)

  1. (wine) A bottle of wine containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard bottle.

Further reading

  • “magnum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

magnum

  1. nominative neuter singular of magnus
  2. accusative masculine singular of magnus
  3. accusative neuter singular of magnus
  4. vocative neuter singular of magnus

Derived terms

  • magnum opus

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