Chinese translation of 'machine gun'
machine gun
n (c)
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机(機)关(關)枪(槍)
(jīguānqiāng) (架, jià)
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machine gun
also machine-gun
Word forms: plural machine guns
1. countable noun
A machine gun is a gun which fires a lot of bullets one after the other very quickly.
The two sides joined battle once again using artillery, mortars and heavy machineguns.
...a burst of machine-gun fire.
2. See also sub-machine gun
machine-gun in British English
or machinegun (məˈʃiːnˌɡʌn)
noun
1.
a.
a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged
b.
(as modifier)
machine-gun fire
verbWord forms: -guns, -gunning or -gunned
2. (transitive)
to shoot or fire at with a machine-gun
Derived forms
machine-gunner noun
machine gun in American English
US
an automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, firing a rapid and continuous stream of bullets
Derived forms
machine-gun (maˈchine-ˌgun) verb transitiveWord forms: maˈchine-ˌgunned or maˈchine-ˌgunning
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British English: machine gun /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/ NOUN
A machine gun is a gun which fires a lot of bullets very quickly one after the other.
The soldier carried a machine gun.
- American English: machine gun
- Arabic: رَشَّاشٌ
- Brazilian Portuguese: metralhadora
- Chinese: 机关枪
- Croatian: strojnica
- Czech: kulomet
- Danish: maskingevær
- Dutch: machinegeweer
- European Spanish: ametralladora
- Finnish: konekivääri
- French: mitrailleuse
- German: Maschinengewehr
- Greek: πολυβόλο
- Italian: mitragliatrice
- Japanese: マシンガン
- Korean: 기관총
- Norwegian: maskingevær
- Polish: karabin maszynowy
- European Portuguese: metralhadora
- Romanian: mitralieră
- Russian: пулемет
- Latin American Spanish: ametralladora
- Swedish: kulspruta
- Thai: ปืนกล
- Turkish: makineli tüfek
- Ukrainian: кулемет
- Vietnamese: súng máy