Swedish

Proper noun

Gun

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• female given names: Gunborg, Gun-Britt, Gunhild, Gunilla, Gunnel, Gunvor
• male given names: Gunnar

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 34 071 females with the given name Gun living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gun ‎(plural guns)

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

   Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.‎

   • 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapter1:

     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:

        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.

   There are some guns that are not designed for killing.‎

   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 **** 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 and 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) A man who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
6. (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) The biceps.
7. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gun ‎(third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)

1. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.

   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.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From gunna, from gonna, from going to

Verb

gun

1. Eye dialect spelling of going to.

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

Anagrams

• GNU, gnu, nug

References

1. 1 2 JP 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 November 2010 (As Amended Through 15 March 2012), p.142. (Searchable online version)

Cornish

Noun

gun f ‎(plural gonyow)

1. plain

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣʏn/

Verb

gun

1. first-person singular present indicative of gunnen
2. imperative of gunnen

Japanese

Romanization

gun

1. rōmaji reading of ぐん

Kurdish

Noun

gun m

1. testicle, ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis

Lojban

Rafsi

gun

1. rafsi of gunka.

Mandarin

Romanization

gun

1. Nonstandard spelling of gūn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gǔn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Noun

gun m ‎(genitive singular gunney, plural gunnaghyn)

1. Alternative form of gunn

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish co.

Alternative forms

• gu
• gum

Conjunction

gun

1. that

   an t-amadan sin gun do thagh thu - That fool that you voted for

   am fear gum pòs aig an deireadh na mìosa - that man that will marry at the end of the month

   an taigh gu bheil aice - that house that she has

Etymology 2

From Old Irish cen.

Preposition

gun

1. without

   gun teagamh - without a doubt

Synonyms

• às aonais