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silencer
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise [syn: muffler ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Silencer is the first Nels Cline Trio album. The American release, with red cover letters, is out of print, but has notes by Nels Cline.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that silences. 2 # An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits. 3 # The muffler of an internal combustion engine. 4 # Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
Usage examples of silencer.
Koch G-12 caseless fifty-shot automatic rifle with night-scope and silencer.
The shot had come from the dark ahead of him, a silencer muffling both the sound and the muzzle flash, aided by the surf and the gloom.
He dropped and rolled, while shooting in the direction of the voice, the semiautomatic spitting out muzzled fire because of the silencer pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft.
When the Italian departed, the door to the stall opened and the Russian exited to find Qazi pointing an automatic pistol with a silencer screwed into the barrel.
Ares Special Service automatics, medium autos with silencers and extended fourteen-round clips.
Finn led the way, surprisingly catfooted for such a bulky, clumsy-looking man, his HK54A2 with the drum mag and built-in silencer in his beefy hands.
When he gave it a run in an area of erosion and steep dongas on the outskirts of town, the silencer box fell off, but the rest held together.
A heavyset man yanked the door open, exhaled at the sight of Pittman, raised a pistol with a silencer, and lurched back as Pittman shot him.
Saul had thrown away the silencer and put the small Beretta in his underwear, against his crotch.
Fitted in a pocket at the side of the holster was a canisterlike device—a silencer for use on the weapons.
Commands and countdowns were conveyed to him over an amplified address system he could not see, loud enough for him to hear through the padded silencers which someone had thought to place over his ears.
Entering each cell, even with silencers to muffle the shots, the team would still have been concerned about an unpredictable scream from a startled monk, a shout that might have alerted the other monks and - if I'm right, Drew thought - one monk in particular, the man the team had come for.
The blaster had its own built-in baffle silencer, developed during the arms races of the late nineties.
He belted on his trench-coat, pulled his trilby well down, screwed the special silencer on to his Belgian automatic, and stuck the gun in his right-hand pocket, a rubberised torch in the other and two spare clips for the gun in an inside jacket pocket.
In the clips were held two automatic pistols, two silencers and two spare ammunition magazines.