Gun vs Machine - What's the difference?
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
#A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol or Derringer.
#A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
#(lb) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.JP 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 November 2010 (As Amended Through 15 March 2012) , p.142. ([//www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/ Searchable online version])
#(lb) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
#(lb) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.
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#*: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.
A and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
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(lb) 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).
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*:by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
(lb) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
*2000 , Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature
*: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.
*2010 , Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata , p.74:
*:Greene's period-416 2c /5 spaceship gun
(lb) A man who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
The biceps.
Violent blasts of wind.
To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
To speed something up.
To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning .
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A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
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(archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.
(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
(computing) A computer.
(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
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Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.
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, He now resumes his attempts in more form: first, he put one of the pillows under me, to give the blank of his aim a more favourable elevation, and another under my head, in ease of it; then spreading my thighs, and placing himself standing between them, made them rest upon his hips; applying then the point of his machine to the slit, into which he sought entrance.}}
to make by machinery.
to shape or finish by machinery.
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(wikipedia gun)Etymology 1
(etyl) Lady Gunilda which was a huge crossbow that used powerful shot. It later became used for firearms like cannons and muskets. The (etyl) woman’s name “Gundahild” is cognate to modern Scandinavian Gunhild. In Old Norse gunnr meant “battle", “war" + hildr (Old English cognate: hild), a word also meaning battle (for its usage as a female name see: Hilda), but in this context means "battle maid”.Noun
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Derived terms
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(gunn)- He gunned down the hitmen .
- The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
- He gunned the engine .
- He’s gunning for you .
- He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
Derived terms
* gun down * gun it * outgunEtymology 2
From (gunna), from (gonna), from (going to)Verb
(head)- I'm gun go get da gun from da closet.
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(wikipedia machine)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine . Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.
- (Addison)
