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Gan vs. Gun — What's the Difference?

Gan vs. Gun — What's the Difference?

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Gan

Mouth.

Gun

A gun is a ranged weapon designed to use a shooting tube (gun barrel) to launch typically solid projectiles, but can also project pressurized liquid (e.g. water guns/cannons, spray guns for painting or pressure washing, projected water disruptors, and technically also flamethrowers), gas (e.g.

Gan

(Northumbria) To go.

Gun

A portable firearm, such as a rifle or revolver.

Gan

Began; commenced.
This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great suspicion.
The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e., hied).
Yet at her speech their rages gan relent.
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Gun

A cannon with a long barrel and a relatively low angle of fire.

Gun

A device resembling a firearm or cannon, as in its ability to project something, such as grease or paint, under pressure or at great speed.

Gun

A discharge of a firearm or cannon as a signal or salute
Heard the guns honoring the leader.

Gun

One who is armed with or skilled in the use of a gun.

Gun

The throttle of an engine, as of an automobile.

Gun

Guns(Slang) The biceps muscles of the arms.

Gun

To shoot (a person)
A bank robber who was gunned down by the police.

Gun

To open the throttle of (an engine) so as to accelerate
Gunned the engine and sped off.

Gun

To hunt with a gun.

Gun

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.

Gun

A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

Gun

A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

Gun

(military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.

Gun

(military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.

Gun

(figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.21-gun salute

Gun

A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

Gun

Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
Air-pressure pellet gun
Nail gun

Gun

A device or tool that projects a substance.
Squirt gun
Spray gun
Grease gun

Gun

A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
A price-label gun

Gun

(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).

Gun

(cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

Gun

A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.

Gun

(television) An electron gun.

Gun

The biceps.

Gun

Violent blasts of wind.

Gun

An expert.

Gun

Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.

Gun

A magsman or street thief.

Gun

(transitive) To cause to speed up.
He gunned the engine.

Gun

(informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
We're all gunning for you.

Gun

(informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.

Gun

To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.

Gun

To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

Gun

To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.

Gun

Nonstandard spelling of going to
I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.

Gun

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge (such as guncotton or gunpowder) behind, which is ignited by various means. Pistols, rifles, carbines, muskets, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
As swift as a pellet out of a gunneWhen fire is in the powder runne.
The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out.

Gun

A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.

Gun

Violent blasts of wind.

Gun

To practice fowling or hunting small game; - chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

Gun

A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

Gun

Large but transportable armament

Gun

A person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

Gun

A professional killer who uses a gun

Gun

A hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine

Gun

A pedal that controls the throttle valve;
He stepped on the gas

Gun

The discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies;
A twenty gun salute

Gun

Shoot with a gun

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