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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gunshot
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gunshot/bullet wound
▪ Deaths from gunshot wounds have soared in this part of London.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wound
▪ The reports said two other women were being treated for gunshot wounds.
▪ It's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds.
▪ All had multiple gunshot wounds except the 4-year-old, who suffered one wound to the chest, authorities said.
▪ It was in a plastic sack and had gunshot wounds.
▪ Since 1986, gunshot wounds to children age 16 and under have increased by 300 percent in major urban areas.
▪ Real bodies; real blood - and with 115 very real bayonet wounds and six gunshot wounds between them.
▪ Six had minor gunshot wounds, the seventh had tripped over a fallen tree and broken an arm.
■ VERB
hear
▪ She says she heard a loud gunshot and saw a man lying on the ground.
▪ After hostage negotiators heard the gunshot over the phone, police waited about a half hour before entering the home.
▪ I heard gunshots in the back-ground as the trooper talked on the radio to Farris.
▪ Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gunshot wound
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this was in the background when the gunshots rang out in the National Theater.
▪ Another was already on the way, off-target because Zeno hadn't expected the gunshot.
▪ Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.
▪ His brother, Omar, 39, died from gunshots to the head instantly after the two were attacked Monday.
▪ I heard gunshots in the back-ground as the trooper talked on the radio to Farris.
▪ No crises, no sudden terror, no gunshots and screaming in the night.
▪ One of the neighbours was sure to have made an anonymous call to the police, reporting the gunshot.
▪ When I fire one gunshot, they go.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunshot

Gunshot \Gun"shot`\, n.

  1. Act of firing a gun; a shot.

  2. The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.

    Those who are come over to the royal party are supposed to be out of gunshot.
    --Dryden.

Gunshot

Gunshot \Gun"shot`\, a. Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gunshot

early 15c., "shot fired from a gun," from gun (n.) + shot (n.). Meaning "range of a gun or cannon" is from 1530s.

Wiktionary
gunshot

n. 1 The act of discharge a firearm. 2 The sound made by a discharging firearm. 3 The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun. 4 A bullet, projectile, or other shot fired from a gun.

WordNet
gunshot

n. the act of shooting a gun; "the gunfire endangered innocent bystanders"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" [syn: gunfire]

Wikipedia
Gunshot

A gunshot is the discharge of a firearm, producing a mechanical sound effect and a chemical gunshot residue. The term can also refer to a gunshot wound caused by such a discharge. Multiple discharges of a firearm or firearms are referred to as gunfire. The word can connote either the sound of a gun firing, the projectiles that were fired, or both. For example, the statement "gunfire came from the next street" could either mean the sound of discharge, or it could mean the bullets themselves. It is better to be a bit more specific while writing however. "The sound of gunfire" or "we came under gunfire" would be more descriptive and prevent confusion. In the latter phrase, in particular, "fire" is more commonly used (i.e. "under fire"), as both words hold the same general meaning within the proper context.

Gunshot (band)

Gunshot was a British hip hop group, formed by MC Mercury, MC Alkaline, Q-Roc, DJ White Child Rix and DJ/MC Barry Blue in the area of Leyton in east London, around 1988/1989. They were originally called Sudden Impact.

Gunshot (disambiguation)

A gunshot is the discharge of a firearm, producing a mechanical sound effect and a chemical gunshot residue.

Gunshot or gun shot may also refer to:

  • Gunshot (band), a British hip hop group
  • "Gunshot", a 2011 song by Nessbeal from Sélection naturelle
  • "Gunshot", a 2014 song by Lykke Li from I Never Learn
  • "Gun Shot", a 2012 song by Nicki Minaj from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Gunshot (film)

Gunshot is 1996 Telugu mystery film directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy starring Ali, Prakash Raj and Keerthi Reddy in the lead roles. It is Keerthi Reddy's debut film.

Usage examples of "gunshot".

She felt more than one pang of conscience as she agreed that Wickham was, indeed, abovestairs at that very moment, and, was moreover, slightly wounded from an accidentally self-inflicted gunshot.

She was confused, not only about Chuckles the bonesetter who specialized in gunshot wounds, but the whole of the river parishes.

There was no gunshot, but as I drew up before the stone house the door was flung open and Mother Newberry appeared, a Hall breechblock loader in one hand.

Most battles were am- bushes, a sniper from the shadows, bushwackers in the dark, the gunshot through the back, and not the standup quick-draw affairs beloved of such novelists as Ned Bunt- line.

The sound of the explosion was such that the mob inside the pub soon became the mob outside, looking for the gunshot victim but finding instead the drunken chauffeur wandering about the chopfallen car, kicking the good tires as if that might reinvigorate the flat without having to pump.

Quoted by Ashhurst, Hunter recorded a case of gunshot wound, in which, after penetrating the stomach, bowels, and diaphragm the ball lodged in the thoracic cavity, causing no difficulty in breathing until shortly before death, and even then the dyspnea was mechanical--from gaseous distention of the intestines.

Behind us, I heard crashing noises and gunshots as the Gaters began neutralizing the security system and breaking inside.

Dale sent Michiko Katayama to court the next day, to beg off, saying that Hask had suffered a relapse from his gunshot injury.

Four or five gunshots crashed out, and at least two of the bullets came through the door after Lochaber and the girl.

Simultaneously a glass dagger stabbed into the front nearside tyre, which blew with the sound of a gunshot.

A large number of cases of frontal lesions-largely suffered in warfare and as gunshot wounds-have been investigated by the American neurophysiologist Hans-Lukas Teuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

There was a burst of shouting from the direction of the camp, accompanied by one more gunshot, but he could make out only the voices of Foreman Jing and Woosoh-Loh in their native tongue, until he heard Axe shout a death threat in poor but understandable Wild-dog, and a weaker echo from the cardinal that the threat was real and enforceable.

It is secure and the walls are soundproof to anything short of a gunshot.

Another gunshot blast ripped through the steel sheeting on the main window of the dancefloor, but failed to find a target, smashing into the plaster ceiling rose in the centre of the room.

Though the range was no more than five feet, there was no clank of impact punctuating the flurry of gunshots, only the whine of deflected slugs as they ricocheted on the rocks around him.