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MACHINE GUN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("machine gun" is a kind of...):
automatic firearm; automatic gun; automatic weapon (a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released)
Meronyms (parts of "machine gun"):
gunstock; stock (the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "machine gun"):
automatic; automatic rifle; machine rifle (light machine gun)
Browning machine gun; Peacemaker (a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War)
Gatling gun (an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated)
Maxim gun (an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel)
Spandau (a German machine gun)
submachine gun (machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm)
Derivation:
machine gun (shoot with a machine gun)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shoot with a machine gun
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "machine gun" is one way to...):
gun (shoot with a gun)
"Machine gun" entails doing...:
hit; pip; shoot (hit with a missile from a weapon)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
machine gun (a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted))
