gun
- noun
- /ɡʌn/
- Specialized
- After heating the parts, she carefully used the gun to inject grease into the machinery.
- nail gun
- staple gun
- tagging gun
Examples
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Oh yeah, I'll take the heat gun and just warm this up.
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I thought, with this gun, I could fix it before he got frustrated and hurt himself.
Fiction book (1991) -
I've used the hot glue gun to glue that block in there.
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Would you get the inoculation gun, M'Ling?
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Lyons distinguished high-velocity from low-velocity nail guns by their mechanism of firing action.
Academic text (2002) -
I used the gun to apply a precise line of adhesive to the model.
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He plugged in the gun and filled the engine's grease fittings effortlessly.
Synonyms
A hand tool that puts grease into machine parts
Idioms
- NSFW
To say as a joke that you will kill yourself because you feel very frustrated
- Offensive
To say you want to kill yourself to show you feel very desperate, often offensive
Compounds
A small device that gives a short electric shock to stop a person moving for a short time
A gun that shoots small paint-filled balls used in a game where players mark each other
- Specialized
A part of a ship, plane, or vehicle that holds guns and turns to aim them
- Archaic
A short, powerful automatic gun used by soldiers and criminals in the early 1900s
- Specialized
A protected place built where a gun is placed and fired, often for defense
- Specialized
A device that fires small gas containers like tear gas to make crowds move away
- Specialized
A device that makes and focuses a thin beam of electrons in a television or microscope
- Specialized
A large movable weapon soldiers use on the battlefield to fire at enemy troops
- Archaic
A room on a warship where junior officers sleep, study and sometimes keep guns
A device that shoots a long pointed spear to catch large sea animals like whales or fish
A .45-caliber automatic gun used by soldiers, police, and gangsters in the 20th century
- Archaic
A belt-fed machine gun used by US forces in World War II and the Korean War
- Archaic
An armored vehicle with a large gun on a tank body that supports soldiers and fights tanks
- Specialized
A rifle used by soldiers that can fire many shots quickly and has a large magazine
- Archaic
A suspended gun that measures bullet speed from its backward swing when fired
- Jargon
Illegal actions by companies in a merger before regulators approve, such as sharing secret business information
- Specialized
A long, thin microphone that you point at a sound to record it from far away
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Etymology
Gun for a grease tool gets its name from the shape and action — it looks like a small pistol and it 'fires' grease into machine parts. So this 'gun' is a hand tool used to push oil or grease where it is needed.