machine gun Hear it!

machine gun Definition

☆ machine gun

noun

an automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, firing a rapid and continuous stream of bullets

machine gun Related Forms
machine′·-gun′ transitive verb -·gunned′, -·gun′ning
machine gun Synonyms

machine gun

n.

  1. 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.

  2. Makes of machine guns include: Bofors, Lewis, Chauchat, Thompson, Browning, BAR, Browning Automatic Rifle, Maxim, Hotchkiss, Sten, Bren, Kalashnikov, Vickers, Spandau, Johnson, Nambu.

machine gun Usage Examples

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.