Gunとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: gŭn, IPA^(key): /ɡʌn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

名詞

gun (複数形 guns)

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

   Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.

   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.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     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.

   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.^[1]
   4. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.^[1]
   5. (figuratively) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^Wp
      • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:

        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.

      air-pressure pellet gun;  air rifle;  BB gun;  zipgun;  nail gun;  a potato gun

   2. A device or tool that projects a substance.

      a squirt gun;  a spray gun;  a grease gun

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

      a rivet gun;  a screw gun;  a price-label gun

3. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose かつ 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.
   • 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

5. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
   • 2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the real-life South Philly truck driver who moonlighted, over the second half of the 20th century, as a hired gun for the mafia.

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.

派生語

派生した語

• Sranan Tongo: gon

動詞

gun (三人称単数 現在形 guns, 現在分詞 gunning, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.
   • 2004, Jens Soering, Yoga of Heart:

     In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.

   • 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.

派生語

• gun down
• gun it
• outgun

語源 2

From gunna, from gonna, from going to

動詞

gun

1. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

   I'm gun go get da gun from da closet.

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アナグラム

• GNU, Ngu, Ung, gnu, nug