Gun-metal

Definition

gun / gʌn / n ၁။ [C] ေသနတ္။ အေျမာက္။ fire a gun ❍ threaten sb with a gun ❍ Look out, he's got a gun! ❍ a warship with 16-inch guns ❍ anti-aircraft guns ❍ a toy gun ❍ a gun battle between rival gangs. See also AIRGUN, HANDGUN, MACHINE-GUN ၂။ the gun [sing] (အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္) အခ်က္ေပးေသနတ္။ Wait for the gun! ၃။ [C] (esp in compounds) ႁပြတ္၊ ခ်ဳပ္စက္ စသည့္ ကိရိယာမ်ဳိး။ a grease-gun ❍ a staple-gun. ၄။ [C] ( US infml ) ေၾကးစားေသနတ္သမား။ a hired gun. v ( -nn- ) ❏ be gunning for sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အျပစ္ရွာသည္။ ❏ gun dog n အမဲလိုက္ေခြး။ ေတာလိုက္ေခြး။ ❏ gun sb down [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (usu passive) (ေသနတ္ျဖင့္)ပစ္သည္၊ ပစ္ခ်သည္။ He was gunned down as he left his home. ❏ gun-metal n [U] ေၾကးနီ၊ သံျဖဴ၊ သြပ္ ေရာထားေသာ သတၱဳ။ gun-metal grey (ie a dull, bluish-grey colour).

Examples

1. A gang armed with machine guns
2. ‘Move!’ said Cardiff
3. waving the gun at them.
4. She found herself looking down the barrel of a gun.
5. [carry a gun] : Their police officers all carry guns.
6. [draw a gun] : He spun around at the noise
7. drawing his gun.
8. [aim/point a gun] : He pointed the gun directly at me.
9. [pull a gun on someone] : Suddenly the officer pulled a gun on them.
10. [fire a gun] : She was learning how to fire a gun.
11. [a gun goes off] : A police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home.
12. [gun battle] : He was shot dead in a gun battle with police.
13. Enemy guns fired a shell every two or three minutes.
14. [heavy guns] : Our troops came under prolonged bombardment by heavy guns.
15. A paint/glue/staple gun