GUN

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gun I. substantiv

1. tun;

high-power gun tun cu tragere lungă;

to blow from a gun a lega de gura tunului şi a executa (pedeapsa folosită de colonialiştii englezi în India);

to carry the biggest guns a) (mar.) a dispune de tunuri de cel mai mare calibru; b) (fig.) a fi mai bine pregătit decât toţi ceilalţi (la o discuţie), a avea cele mai serioase argumente;

to fire off a gun a) a trage cu tunul; b) a face o mustrare tăioasă; c) a aduce un argument zdrobitor;

to give her the gun a) (mar.) a naviga cu toată viteza; b) (fam.) a goni (cu automobilul);

(fam.) great guns! la dracu! pe dracu! nu se poate;

to spike smb.’s guns a zădărnici planurile cuiva;

(fam.) big / great gun persoană importantă, ştab;

(despre furtună) to blow great guns a urla;

to stick / to stand to one’s guns a) a nu ceda poziţiile, a nu se retrage; b) a rămâne până la urmă credincios ideilor sale.

2. (ist.) muschetă.

3. armă de foc, puşcă, armă;

double-barrelled gun armă cu două ţevi;

smoothbare gun armă cu ţeava neghintuită;

sporting gun armă de vânătoare;

(sport) starting gun pistol de start.

3. (amer.) revolver, pistol.

4. trăgător, vânător.

5. (tehn.) maşină pentru astupat orificiul de scurgere.

6. (sl.) hoţ.

gun II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a vâna.

2. (amer. fam.) a împuşca cu revolverul.

3. (mil.) a bombarda cu artileria.

4. (mil.) a dota cu artilerie / tunuri;

heavily gunned bine dotat cu artilerie;

undergunned insuficient dotat cu artilerie.

gun II. verb B. intranzitiv

(amer.) to gun for a) a vâna (vânatul) cu puşca; b) a urmări (pe cineva) cu pistolul pentru a-l împuşca sau a-l face inofensiv; c) (fig.) a se strădui să obţină (sprijin etc.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Hans did not answer, but she saw the shot-gun going to his shoulder.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the same way with a gun under his arm.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Better get your rifles, you fellows,” Wolf Larsen called to our hunters; and the five men lined the lee rail, guns in hand, and waited.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

But there were all our stores at the bottom, and to make things worse, only two guns out of five remained in a state for service.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

If your children play at another home, talk to the parents about gun safety.

(Gun Safety, NIH)

Lord John looked eagerly round him and slipped two cartridges into his elephant-gun.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I made all the sail I could, and in half an hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient, and discharged a gun.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Children who watched a PG- (Parental Guidance-) rated movie clip containing guns played with a disabled real gun longer and pulled the trigger more often than children who saw the same movie not containing guns.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, Editura Global Info)

Of air-guns.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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