dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/gun_MW.json
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{
"gun":{
"antonyms":[
"drill",
"plug",
"pop",
"shoot"
],
"definitions":{
": a device that throws a projectile":[],
": a discharge of a gun especially as a salute or signal":[],
": a piece of ordnance usually with high muzzle velocity and comparatively flat trajectory":[],
": a portable firearm (such as a rifle or handgun)":[],
": a signal marking a beginning or ending":[],
": fire sense 3b":[
"gunned the ball to first base"
],
": gunman":[],
": hunter":[],
": shoot":[
"gunned down by a hit man"
],
": something suggesting a gun in shape or function":[],
": throttle":[],
": to aim at or go after with determination or effort":[],
": to fire on":[],
": to hunt with a gun":[],
": to open up the throttle of so as to increase speed":[
"gun the engine"
],
": under pressure or attack":[]
},
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a gun battle between gang members and the police",
"She claimed that the gun went off accidentally.",
"Verb",
"She let the car coast down the hill, then gunned it.",
"The shortstop gunned the ball to first base.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The new gun legislation restricts people from carrying handguns in public by prohibiting them in locations including schools, libraries and parks. \u2014 Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
"Pratt is James Reece, an ultra-elite SEAL with a gun garage and an axe collection. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 1 July 2022",
"In other words, the reduction in violent deaths simply cannot be attributed to Bolsonaro\u2019s gun policies. \u2014 Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic , 1 July 2022",
"Hochul, in introducing the legislation on Wednesday, said this measure is meant to cut down on gun thefts from cars. \u2014 Jessie Dimartino, ABC News , 1 July 2022",
"New York will be the first of six states directly affected by the gun ruling to pass a new law restricting the carrying of guns. \u2014 Nicholas Fandos, BostonGlobe.com , 1 July 2022",
"New York will be the first of six states directly affected by the gun ruling to pass a new law restricting the carrying of guns. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2022",
"Shortly after Da Candy Shop opened, the Stockton Planning Commission considered shutting down due to drug and gun -related arrests at and near the club. \u2014 Max Bell, SPIN , 1 July 2022",
"More:Milwaukee officials encourage residents to pick up free gun locks. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Ruth had manipulated Javi into showing up for a meeting at Shaw\u2019s office, only to gun him down in retaliation for Javi killing Ruth\u2019s cousin Wyatt. \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 30 June 2022",
"According to a Washington Post analysis, there have been only two instances two decades where a school resource officer was able to gun down an active shooter. \u2014 Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter , 5 June 2022",
"Early reports indicate at least one such weapon possibly was used to gun down students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
"Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African American patrons. \u2014 Libby Cathey, ABC News , 25 May 2022",
"Moore chose to gun the unarmed man down, then run away, the prosecutor said. \u2014 John Lynch, Arkansas Online , 4 May 2022",
"Kurt has Harrison running through the snow and is just about to gun him down when Dexter/Jim revs toward him, sending him running off instead. \u2014 Kelly Mcclure, Vulture , 28 Dec. 2021",
"But days later, authorities say the teen used the weapon to gun down his classmates at Oxford High School. \u2014 Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger challenged Rittenhouse's right to gun down the two victims that night. \u2014 NBC News , 10 Nov. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
"1622, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gonne, gunne":"Noun"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259n"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arm",
"firearm",
"heat",
"piece",
"small arm"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003933",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"gung ho":{
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
],
"definitions":{
": extremely or overly zealous or enthusiastic":[]
},
"examples":[
"We were really gung ho about joining the team.",
"he was gung ho about his accounting class",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But then there is Styles, cheerily gung ho , hidden behind a festive yellow bandana mask and a sweatshirt of his own design, surprisingly printed with three portraits of his intellectual pinup, the author Alain de Botton. \u2014 Alice Newbold, Vogue , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Casterline urged his client to jump on the next flight, but Adams \u2014 who was always gung ho for football \u2014 was suddenly hesitant. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Apr. 2021"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1941, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Gung ho! , motto (interpreted as meaning \"work together\") adopted by certain U.S. marines, from Chinese (Beijing) g\u014dngh\u00e9 , short for Zh\u014dnggu\u00f3 G\u014dngy\u00e8 H\u00e9zu\u00f2 Sh\u00e8 Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society":""
},
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"\u02c8g\u0259\u014b-\u02c8h\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"pumped",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220149",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gunk":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": filthy, sticky, or greasy matter":[]
},
"examples":[
"The engine was all full of gunk .",
"I need to wipe this gunk off my hands.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The first one is just to get the gunk off, all of the edge control and that stuff. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
"Applied a few times a day, oil is controlled, the skin is exfoliated, and any gunk is exposed and absorbed. \u2014 ELLE , 18 May 2022",
"Most Popular Car Detailing Tool on Amazon Get the gunk from tight spaces with this car detailing tool. \u2014 Raena Loper, Good Housekeeping , 6 May 2022",
"Coffee gunk can make your coffee taste bitter, rendering that Premium Roast undrinkable! \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 29 Mar. 2022",
"Instead, pre-rinse anything that has more than a modest rooster tail of grit on it; just one or two hand soaks and rinses is enough to get most of the gunk out. \u2014 Joe Lindsey, Outside Online , 17 July 2021",
"Then there\u2019s the task of converting a pond of green gunk into fuel, a design problem that engineers, chemists and other scientists are still trying to perfect. \u2014 Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic , 19 May 2022",
"Clean electronic gadgets often, because an accumulation of dust or gunk can affect the performance of the device. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Toe jam, the gunk and debris between your toes, even made it into a Beatles song. \u2014 Caroline Robinson And Luke Donnan, CNN , 1 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1943, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Gunk , trademark for a cleaning solvent":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259\u014bk"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"crud",
"dirt",
"filth",
"grime",
"muck",
"smut",
"soil"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195904",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"gunpowder":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Chinese archers attached bamboo tubes stuffed with gunpowder to their arrows, which were ignited when launched. \u2014 Paul Sillers, CNN , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Other outfits include Captain Picard\u2019s uniform worn by Patrick Stewart, a Borg costume and the rubber suit inhabited by the brutal alien Gorn, who battled Captain Kirk until Kirk \u2018invented\u2019 gunpowder . \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Cortese\u2019s bill would have banned the use of guns and blank ammunition containing gunpowder or other explosive charges from film sets, with some exceptions. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 23 May 2022",
"An explosive device filled with gunpowder , ball bearings and metal arrowheads was discovered in the car of a man who had fallen asleep in his vehicle in a Northeast Side neighborhood, according to the San Antonio Police Department. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 12 May 2022",
"Some of the hunters forced themselves to vomit by ingesting a mixture of gunpowder , tobacco, and alcohol. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 17 Apr. 2022",
"When a trigger is pulled, the primer ignites the gunpowder , shooting the bullet through the barrel of a gun... \u2014 John Jurgensen, WSJ , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Some of the world's greatest discoveries were accidental, such as penicillin, plastic and gunpowder . \u2014 Nuala Walsh, Forbes , 4 May 2022",
"By the 10th century, the technology had spread to China, with Chinese soldiers packing gunpowder into ceramic or metal containers with a fuse attached. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 3 May 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
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"\u02c8g\u0259n-\u02ccpau\u0307-d\u0259r"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130100",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gunport":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an opening (as in a ship's side, a gun turret, a pillbox, or the nose, fuselage, or wing of an airplane) through which a gun can be fired":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-141814"
},
"gunpointer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a sailor who elevates, depresses, and fires a manually controlled gun aboard ship":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"gun entry 1 + pointer":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143418"
},
"Gunter's chain":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a chain 66 feet (20.1 meters) long that is the unit of length for surveys of U.S. public lands":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259n-t\u0259rz-"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Edmund Gunter":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1679, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000150"
},
"gunter iron":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a fitting on a gunter rig consisting of two double eyes united by side bars so that one eye in each pair slides freely over a lower mast and the other serves as a step for a topmast":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259nt\u0259(r)-"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010346"
},
"gunter rig":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a rig used on a small sailing boat consisting of an upper mast stepped in a gunter iron and moved up or down on a lower mast and supporting a yard to which is laced a triangular sail":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"after Edmund Gunter \u20201626 English mathematician; from its resemblance to an instrument used in making mathematical calculations according to a system devised by Gunter":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-041725"
},
"gunpoint":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the muzzle of a gun":[],
": under a threat of death by being shot":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259n-\u02ccp\u022fint"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Authorities across the Valley accused McNeil and Quintero of committing dozens of violent crimes, including car thefts at gunpoint and three separate murders, between June and September 2020. \u2014 Chelsea Curtis, The Arizona Republic , 28 June 2022",
"Authorities said Miller held Flores at gunpoint , took some of his property and then shot him in the head. \u2014 Emily Davies, Washington Post , 28 June 2022",
"Police believe the shooting happened after McKnight, a temporary hire at the facility, robbed two co-workers at gunpoint during an overnight shift, and was then confronted about the robbery, Rompa said. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 25 June 2022",
"In May 2002, Lewis was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated robbery for stealing $1,300 from a man at gunpoint in North Little Rock. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 24 June 2022",
"Owners were being held at gunpoint and robbed of all their day\u2019s cash. \u2014 Curtis Chin, Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 June 2022",
"In January, a candidate for the D.C. Council, Nate Fleming, was carjacked at gunpoint . \u2014 Ashraf Khalil, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
"Del Toro said the men allegedly held the victim at gunpoint as well as with a knife and threatened his life. \u2014 Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com , 20 June 2022",
"In January, a candidate for the D.C. Council, Nate Fleming, was carjacked at gunpoint . \u2014 Ashraf Khalil, ajc , 19 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1951, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073214"
},
"gunboat diplomacy":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": diplomacy backed by the use or threat of military force":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In the early 2000s, the Danes twice dispatched frigates with soldiers to the island, in what Robert Huebert, a political scientist at the University of Calgary, called an example of gunboat diplomacy . \u2014 Amanda Coletta, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"Through gunboat diplomacy , France forced Haiti to agree to an enormous indemnity in exchange for recognition. \u2014 Patrick Iber, The New Republic , 11 Jan. 2022",
"On May 5, the day before the elections, Johnson staged an amateur reenactors\u2019 version of nineteenth-century gunboat diplomacy . \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The New York Review of Books , 13 May 2021",
"The result is that Mr. Erdo\u011fan is the latest exemplar of the effectiveness of gunboat diplomacy , even as traditional military players withdraw from the field. \u2014 Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 Nov. 2020",
"In the 18th century, imperial Britain was able to practice gunboat diplomacy across Africa and the Indian subcontinent, taking direct administrative control of vast swaths of the world. \u2014 Parag Khanna, Quartz , 16 Dec. 2019",
"Whether this was a way of proving his commitment or a less-than-subtle suggestion of gunboat diplomacy , the ploy worked. \u2014 Yoni Wilkenfeld, Quartz , 6 Nov. 2019",
"The only alternative would be a world where all states are truly on an equal footing, and that went out the window with gunboat diplomacy , with systematic looting of the developing world through debt, with colonization, with the slave trade itself. \u2014 Dana Snitzky, Longreads , 20 Feb. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1927, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095312"
},
"Gunther":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Burgundian king and husband of Brunhild in Germanic legend":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gu\u0307n-t\u0259r"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"German":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1907, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-102406"
},
"gunplay":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the shooting of small arms with intent to scare or kill":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259n-\u02ccpl\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The director Rian Johnson tweeted in support of using visual effects to illustrate gunplay in his films. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"These were serious holdups, with gunplay , corpses sieved with bullets, and explosives to blow a path to the cache of goods, which wasn\u2019t always as rich as the robbers had expected. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
"But gunplay isn\u2019t seen as an immediate threat; rather, it is viewed as a foundational part of entertainment. \u2014 Shirley Li, The Atlantic , 17 Feb. 2022",
"As if the pressures of an ever-escalating environmental crisis weren\u2019t enough, the protagonists (who are Muslim) also have cause for alarm in nationwide sectarian violence, with arson, looting, gunplay and more edging closer to their door. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 28 Jan. 2022",
"That way, every firefight is a free-flowing battle of gunplay and positioning, since everyone moves at roughly the same speed. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Nov. 2021",
"Infinite follows the series' core tenets of providing excellent first-person gunplay , third-person driving, and a slew of familiar military and alien weapons. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 6 Dec. 2021",
"Some action movies have elaborate effects, some have martial arts, some have gunplay , but The Matrix would have to have all of the above. \u2014 Keith Phipps, Vulture , 22 Dec. 2021",
"The trailer features breathtaking vistas along with big drama, from houses burning and territorial battles to Wild West gunplay . \u2014 Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone , 8 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1881, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-102822"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an armed ship of shallow draft":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8g\u0259n-\u02ccb\u014dt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There are graves for 35 Navy sailors killed in the boiler explosion aboard the gunboat Bennington in 1905. \u2014 John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 May 2022",
"The flotilla included an even older ship, a former Russian gunboat named the Politkofsky reduced into a coal barge. \u2014 David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News , 15 May 2022",
"Despite the arrangements with the government and SPLA leaders, who were observing a cease-fire at the time, the expedition suffered a close call with a government gunboat in the flatwater of Sudan. \u2014 Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online , 7 Feb. 2011",
"The Jersey gunboat stunt was necessary because the Garden of Eden promised by Johnson has already become a dense jungle of bureaucratic tedium. \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The New York Review of Books , 13 May 2021",
"One Union gunboat , the USS Amanda, was grounded on the west point of Dog Island across St. George Sound near Apalachicola. \u2014 Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com , 5 Apr. 2021",
"Not only can Neptune batteries strike farther and harder than any gunboat can do\u2014they\u2019re unsinkable, too. Follow me on Twitter. \u2014 David Axe, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2021",
"In summer 1906 a Royal Navy torpedo gunboat , HMS Spanker, was steaming off the west coast of Scotland. \u2014 Richard Davenport-hines, WSJ , 21 Aug. 2020",
"The sailors on the gunboats undertook a last-minute mission without proper training or equipment and were captured after straying into the waters surrounding an Iranian naval base on Farsi Island. \u2014 T. Christian Miller, ProPublica , 17 Jan. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{
"1777, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-104341"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": carrying and using a gun usually for criminal purposes":[
"the gun-toting brothers wanted here for armed assault",
"\u2014 Springfield (Massachusetts) Union"
],
": the carrying and use of a gun usually for criminal purposes":[
"stiffer punishment for gun toting",
"\u2014 W. T. Brannon"
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"toting from present participle of tote":"Adjective",
"toting from gerund of tote":"Noun"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-131032"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the circular steel shield around a ship's gun":[]
},
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a mass of metal at the rear end of a cannon that extends from the rear face to the rifling":[]
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153602"
},
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],
"definitions":{
"city in the eastern India state of Andhra Pradesh population 514,707":[]
},
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"gu\u0307n-\u02c8tu\u0307r"
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"verb"
],
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},
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],
"definitions":{
": one of three primal qualities or elements of matter according to Sankhya philosophy \u2014 see rajas , sattva , tamas":[],
": a Sanskrit ablaut grade that strengthens the simple vowels by prefixing an a element to each so that i or \u012b becomes e (for earlier ai ), u or \u016b becomes o (for earlier au ), r becomes ar , and \u1e37 becomes al , but a and \u0101 remain unchanged":[]
},
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"\u02c8g\u00fc-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Sanskrit gu\u1e47a thread, quality":""
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
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": carrying and using a gun usually for criminal purposes":[
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"\u2014 Springfield (Massachusetts) Union"
],
": the carrying and use of a gun usually for criminal purposes":[
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"\u2014 W. T. Brannon"
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"toting from present participle of tote":"Adjective",
"toting from gerund of tote":"Noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204029"
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"gun pit":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an excavation often with a parapet in front to protect a fieldpiece and its operators from direct fire":[]
},
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"gun pendulum":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an apparatus used to determine ballistics data (as the initial velocity of a projectile or conditions existing in the bore of a gun during passage of the projectile) by means of measurement of the recoil caused by the discharge of a gun suspended as a pendulum \u2014 compare ballistic pendulum":[]
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"gunwale":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the upper edge of a ship's or boat's side":[],
": as fully as possible":[
"The doorbell rang, and Flanagan let in his wife, who was loaded to the gunwales with groceries.",
"\u2014 Whitney Balliett"
]
},
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"\u02c8g\u0259-n\u1d4al"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The weight of that many passengers caused rising waves to lap at the tops of the gunwale \u2014 the lone protector against catastrophic swamping. \u2014 Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Oct. 2021",
"But if the cormorants are being hunted, what explains the presence on each boat of an unperturbed bird perched on the gunwale ",
"On a recent visit, shipwright Matteo Tamassia, whose gondolas can take a month or more to construct, discussed an improvement to the gunwale with a fellow boat-maker who dropped by. \u2014 Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor , 4 June 2021",
"Drill and screw the snap studs onto the inboard side of the gunwale . \u2014 Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream , 18 Feb. 2021",
"The man in short sleeves bent over the Lazora\u2019s starboard gunwale and vomited red fluid. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2021",
"Some boats can\u2019t be fitted with rod holder mounts that fit flush against a gunwale or transom. \u2014 The Editors, Field & Stream , 26 Feb. 2020",
"At this point another boat glided by, its gunwales lined with tourists staring into the cameras. \u2014 Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com , 2 Oct. 2019",
"Near the bow Marina Antonopoulou, with Emirates Nature-World Wildlife Fund, perches on the gunwale . \u2014 Craig Welch, National Geographic , 20 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English gonne-wale , from gonne gun + wale entry 1 ; from its former use as a support for guns":""
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235203"
},
"gunmetal":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an alloy or metal treated to imitate nearly black tarnished copper-alloy gunmetal":[],
": a bluish-gray color":[]
},
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"\u02c8g\u0259n-\u02ccme-t\u1d4al"
],
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His arms were wrapped around it and its small occupant, the child cradled in a padded nest formed out of a bright, multicolored blanket, a stark contrast with the drab, greasy gunmetal of the flight deck. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 19 May 2022",
"The Snowtown Murders, his pitiless debut, depicted the murders committed by notorious serial killer John Bunting with a nightmarish inexorability, heightened by an overcast color palette that could be described as gunmetal . \u2014 Isaac Feldberg, Fortune , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Pick a stunning gunmetal like this Lights Lacquer shade for a fun spin on your traditional black polish. \u2014 Vanessa Paredes, Redbook , 16 Dec. 2019",
"The Carousel pendant\u2019s ring of gunmetal or brass cylinders is tipped with opal glass diffusers. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Oct. 2019",
"According to Shape, Lopez owns these Beyond Yoga leggings in three different shades, including black gunmetal , sandstone gold speckle, and blush rose gold. \u2014 Braelyn Wood, Health.com , 16 Oct. 2019",
"There were gunmetal smoky eyes, purple lips, and glittery green shadows. \u2014 Shalwah Evans, Essence , 23 Sep. 2019",
"It's less jarring than a plain white eyeshadow and more exciting and versatile than a simple gunmetal . \u2014 Michelle Li, Teen Vogue , 6 June 2019",
"In the music video for the song, metallic gunmetal and asphalt pigments were blended all over his lids. \u2014 Devon Abelman, Allure , 15 Mar. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":{
"1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-020622"
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