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FIREARM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A portable gun

Example:

he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster

Synonyms:

firearm; piece; small-arm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("firearm" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "firearm"):

firing pin (striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer)

lock (a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun)

sights (an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "firearm"):

autoloader; self-loader (a firearm that reloads itself)

muzzle loader (an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle)

handgun; pistol; shooting iron; side arm (a firearm that is held and fired with one hand)

repeater; repeating firearm (a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading)

rifle (a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore)

riot gun (a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death)

scattergun; shotgun (firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges)

smoothbore (a firearm that has no rifling)

.22; twenty-two (a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle))

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