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  Gun \Gun\ (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin;
     cf. Ir., Gael., & LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon)
     fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E.
     mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]
     1. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              As swift as a pellet out of a gunne
              When fire is in the powder runne.     --Chaucer.
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              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.                  --Selden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
        cannon.
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     3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
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     Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or
           manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore,
           breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or
           built-up guns; or according to their use, as field,
           mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     Armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
        after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
  
     Big gun or Great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence
        (Fig.), a person superior in any way; as, bring in the big
        guns to tackle the problem.
  
     Gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun.
  
     Gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
        moved.
  
     Gun cotton (Chem.), a general name for a series of
        explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
        cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are
        formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
        results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It
        burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
        and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
        Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
        insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
        highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and
        cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and
        somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
        with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for
        making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun
        cotton is frequenty but improperly called
        nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ester
        of nitric acid.
  
     Gun deck. See under Deck.
  
     Gun fire, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
        is fired.
  
     Gun metal, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
        copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is
        also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
  
     Gun port (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a
        cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
  
     Gun tackle (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
        side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
        the gun port.
  
     Gun tackle purchase (Naut.), a tackle composed of two
        single blocks and a fall. --Totten.
  
     Krupp gun, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
        after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
  
     Machine gun, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
        mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
        reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
        gun or guns and fired in rapid succession. In earlier
        models, such as the Gatling gun, the cartridges were
        loaded by machinery operated by turning a crank. In modern
        versions the loading of cartidges is accomplished by
        levers operated by the recoil of the explosion driving the
        bullet, or by the pressure of gas within the barrel.
        Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute by such
        weapons, with accurate aim. The Gatling gun, Gardner
        gun, Hotchkiss gun, and Nordenfelt gun, named for
        their inventors, and the French mitrailleuse, are
        machine guns.
  
     To blow great guns (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n.,
        3.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

  Ordnance \Ord"nance\, n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to
     the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance.]
     Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and
     howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all
     weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war.
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           All the battlements their ordnance fire. --Shak.
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           Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus
           Choate's] rifled ordnance.               --E. Everett.
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     Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and
        Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
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  Ordnance \Ord"nance\, n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to
     the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance.]
     Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and
     howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all
     weapons and appliances used in war.
  
           All the battlements their ordnance fire. --Shak.
  
           Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus
           Choate's] rifled ordnance.               --E. Ererett.
  
     Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and
        Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.

  Gun \Gun\, n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir.,
     Gael.) A LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L.
     canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E.
     mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.]
     1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance;
        any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the
        explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel
        closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with
        an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various
        means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, 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 gunne When fire is in
              the powder runne.                     --Chaucer.
  
              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.                  --Selden.
  
     2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
        cannon.
  
     3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind.
  
     Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or
           manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore,
           breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or
           built-up guns; or according to their use, as field,
           mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns.
  
     Armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
        after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.
  
     Great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a
        person superior in any way.
  
     Gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun.
  
     Gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
        moved.
  
     Gun cotton (Chem.), a general name for a series of
        explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
        cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are
        formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
        results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It
        burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
        and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
        Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
        insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
        highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and
        cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and
        somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
        with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for
        making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun
        cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose.
        It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric
        acid.
  
     Gun deck. See under Deck.
  
     Gun fire, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
        is fired.
  
     Gun metal, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
        copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is
        also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.
  
     Gun port (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a
        cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.
  
     Gun tackle (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
        side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
        the gun port.
  
     Gun tackle purchase (Naut.), a tackle composed of two
        single blocks and a fall. --Totten.
  
     Krupp gun, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
        after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.
  
     Machine gun, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
        mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
        reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
        gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in
        volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several
        hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim.
        The Gatling gun, Gardner gun, Hotchkiss gun, and
        Nordenfelt gun, named for their inventors, and the
        French mitrailleuse, are machine guns.
  
     To blow great guns (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n.,
        3.

  ordnance
       n 1: military supplies [syn: munitions, ordnance stores]
       2: large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, heavy
          weapon, gun]

  ordnance
     n.
     1 military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
     2 artillery.

  ordnance
     n.
     1 military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
     2 artillery.

  ordnance
     n.
     1 military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
     2 artillery.

  ordnance
     n.
     1 military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
     2 artillery.

  ordnance
     Englanti n.
     sotatarvikkeet (aseet, ammus)

  Ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  المدفعية

  ordnance //ˈɔɹdnəns// //ˈɔɹdɪnəns// //ˈɔːdnəns// 
  артилерия
  artillery

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/ 
  arzenál

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/ 
  ordnans 

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  Artilleriewaffen , Geschütze  [mil.]
   see: heavy ordnance
  

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  militärische Ausrüstung , Feldzeug , Waffen und Munition [mil.]
           Note: military equipment, esp. weapons and ammunition

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  Feldzeugmaterial , Feldzeugwesen 

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  Wehrmaterial  [mil.]

  ordnance //ˈɔɹdnəns// //ˈɔɹdɪnəns// //ˈɔːdnəns// 
  1. ampumatarvikkeet
  arms and ammunition
  2. tykistö
  artillery
  3. sotamateriaali, sotatarvike, taisteluväline
  military equipment

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/ 
  1. तोपें, तोपख़ाना
        "The ordnance factory comes in the defence."

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  artiljerija, teški topovi

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  1. szertári szolgálat
  2. szertári ellátás
  3. anyagi ellátás
  4. anyagi szolgálat

  ordnance //ˈɔɹdnəns// //ˈɔɹdɪnəns// //ˈɔːdnəns// 
  1. 大砲
  artillery
  2. 軍用品
  military equipment

  ordnance /ˈɔːdnəns/
  1. savaş gereçleri
  2. ağır çaplı toplar
  3. askeri gereç ve silahlar dairesi.

  
/ˈɔɹdnəns/

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "ordnance":
     A-weapons, armament, arms, artillery, battery, biological weapons,
     cannon, cannonry, coast artillery, conventional weapons,
     deadly weapons, field artillery, flak, heavy field artillery,
     instruments of destruction, missilery, munitions, musketry,
     nuclear weapons, side arms, siege artillery, siege engine,
     small arms, thermonuclear weapons, trench artillery, weaponry,
     weapons
  
  

  n.军械供应

     n. 大炮,军械,武器