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say it: guhn
gun is a noun and verb meaning "a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)". It is pronounced /ˈɡʌn/ — guhn. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
a professional killer who uses a gun
a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
a pedal that controls the throttle valve
“he stepped on the gas”
the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
“two runners started before the gun”
“a twenty gun salute”
military
shoot with a gun
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gun come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.