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発音

• IPA: /ˈpɪstəl/, [ˈpɪstəl] ~ [ˈpɪstl̩]
• 韻: -ɪstəl
• ハイフネーション: pis‧tol
• Homophone: pistil (weak vowel merger)

名詞

pistol (plural pistols)

1. (loosely) A handgun [1570s]

   Hypernyms: firearm < gun < ranged weapon < weapon

   Hyponyms: semiauto, revolver, wheelgun

   Coordinate terms: rifle; see also Thesaurus:firearm

   1. (precise) The type of handgun with the chamber integral with the barrel.

      Hypernyms: handgun < firearm < gun < ranged weapon < weapon

      Hyponym: semiauto

      Coordinate terms: revolver, wheelgun; rifle; see also Thesaurus:firearm

      She leveled her pistol at the target.

2. The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
3. A lively, high-energy person.
   • 2011, Diane Lierow, Bernie Lierow, Kay West, Dani's Story: A Journey from Neglect to Love‎, page 81:

     She was gregarious, opinionated, and in charge, the kind of person you'd describe as a real pistol, and I was immediately drawn to her.

   • February 2012, Thomas Pugsley, Denial (episode) in Young Justice (TV series):

     KENT NELSON —Until my wife Inza convinced me there was more to life. Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza.

   • 2012, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories in ‘You Tube’ Made Me an Overnight Sensation, iUniverse, page 102:

     She features so many dance tunes and is a pistol with her sharp and witty remarks.

4. (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.

使用する際の注意点

Some shooters differentiate between a "pistol", a semi-automatic handgun with a single, integrated chamber fed by a detachable magazine, and a revolver, which is named after its multiple rotating chambers; however, in common usage, the word pistol is used to refer to any type of handgun.

派生語

動詞

pistol (third-person singular simple present pistols, present participle (US) pistoling or (UK) pistolling, simple past and past participle (US) pistoled or (UK) pistolled)

1. (transitive) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

参考

• derringer
• pistole
• gat
• rod

参照

• “pistol”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pistol”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

• Pistol offense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• spoilt, sploit, postil, pilots, potlis, Toplis

発音

• IPA: /ˈpis.tol/

名詞

pistol m

1. (religion, Christianity) letter, epistle
2. (religion, Christianity, biblical) an epistle of the New Testament

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• pistolbōc
  • Middle English: pistelboke
• pistolrǣdere
• pistolrǣding
• pistolrocc

派生した語

• Middle English: pistel, pistle, pistell, pystyll
  • English: pistle
  • Scots: pistil, pistill, pistle