Firearm vs. Gun

Firearmnoun

A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.

Firearmnoun

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

Firearmnoun

a portable gun;

Firearm

A firearm is any type of gun designed to be readily carried and used by an individual. The term is legally defined further in different countries (see Legal definitions).

Gunnoun

A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.

Gunnoun

A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

Gunnoun

A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

Gunnoun

(military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.

Gunnoun

(military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.

Gunnoun

(figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.Wp

Gunnoun

A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

Gunnoun

Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.

Gunnoun

A device or tool that projects a substance.

Gunnoun

A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.

Gunnoun

(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).

Gunnoun

(cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

Gunnoun

A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.

Gunnoun

The biceps.

Gunnoun

Violent blasts of wind.

Gunverb

To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.

Gunverb

To speed something up.

Gunverb

To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.

Gunverb

To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.

Gunverb

To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

Gunverb

nonstandard spelling of going to

Gunnoun

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge (such as guncotton or gunpowder) behind, which is ignited by various means. Pistols, rifles, carbines, muskets, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.

Gunnoun

A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.

Gunnoun

Violent blasts of wind.

Gunverb

To practice fowling or hunting small game; - chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

Gunnoun

a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

Gunnoun

large but transportable armament

Gunnoun

a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

Gunnoun

a professional killer who uses a gun

Gunnoun

a hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine

Gunnoun

a pedal that controls the throttle valve;

Gunnoun

the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies;

Gunverb

shoot with a gun

Gun

A gun is a ranged weapon designed to use a shooting tube (gun barrel) to launch typically solid projectiles, but can also project pressurized liquid (e.g. water guns/cannons, spray guns for painting or pressure washing, projected water disruptors, and technically also flamethrowers), gas (e.g.