machine gun
☆ machine gun
noun
an automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, firing a rapid and continuous stream of bullets
machine gun
n.
automatic rifle, assault rifle, semi-automatic rifle, automatic arms, light arms, light ordnance, Tommy gun*, burp gun*; see also gun 1, 2, weapon 1.Types of machine guns include: pom-pom, mitrailleuse, Garand, AK-47, M-14, M-16, M-60, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, Bren gun, Sten gun, Thompson, tommy gun, Uzi, submachine gun, light 30-caliber machine gun, heavy 30-caliber machine gun, 50-caliber machine gun.
Makes of machine guns include: Bofors, Lewis, Chauchat, Thompson, Browning, BAR, Browning Automatic Rifle, Maxim, Hotchkiss, Sten, Bren, Kalashnikov, Vickers, Spandau, Johnson, Nambu.
Converse of object
- carry: The short staircase was lined with perhaps twenty paramilitaries - ministry of Interior forces - in gray camouflage carrying machine guns.
- include: The player will hurtle through six action-packed levels using a variety of explosive weaponry including rapid-fire machine guns and lasers.
- use: The third attached from the South using machine guns but no bombs.
- have: They had machine guns in the sand dunes and 88s on the hills.
Preposition: in
- action: The right of our line is shown in the foreground with riflemen and machine guns in action.
Adjective modifier
- heavy: Walk into them and it will transport you to a level where you are a flea with a heavy machine gun.
- light: This example is an amended Type 26 pillbox which has loopholes on the sides for light machine guns or rifles.
- first: Seizing the wealth The first machine gun: a revolutionary breakthrough in its time Human beings are not inherently warlike.
- general: Armament Two general purpose machine guns mounted in port and starboard cabin windows.
- large: After the disturbance in the room had gone on for some time, the soldiers opened fire with large machine guns.
Modifies a noun
- fire: Suddenly, the silence is broken by the sound of machine gun fire from all sides.
- emplacement: The cemetery owes its name to a German machine gun emplacement known to the British troops as " The Beehive " .
- nest: And they're lethal with their RPGs, machine gun nests and mounted guns on vehicles.
- detachment: Companies were commanded by a Hauptmann and the machine gun detachments by a subaltern officer or an Hauptmann.
- post: A machine gun post at one of the corners swiveled round, taking aim at the crowd which pulled to a halt.
- attack: The submarine surfaced, east of Lipari Island, meeting a machine gun attack from the waiting aircraft and escorts.
Noun used with modifier
- enemy: He and two of his men stalked two enemy machine guns rushed and captured them and enabled the small beleaguered garrison to withdraw.
- purpose: Armament Two general purpose machine guns mounted in port and starboard cabin windows.
- inch: It has massive armaments: ten.50 inch machine guns in turrets in both its upper and lower fuselage.
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