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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
semi-automatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rifle
▪ Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and, usually, a semi-automatic rifle.
▪ Marc Lepine entered the classroom holding a semi-automatic rifle.
weapon
▪ After those killings, the federal government banned the import of semi-automatic weapons.
▪ A Democratic-controlled Congress passed a ban on 19 types of semi-automatic weapons in 1994.
▪ High-powered and semi-automatic weapons can be freely bought.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A police officer armed with a semi-automatic gun stood guard.
▪ For 20-30 minutes he fired at lunchtime diners with two large-capacity ammunition clip semi-automatic pistols, before finally killing himself.
▪ He could remember the suppressed clattering noise of the firing on semi-automatic.
▪ In the late 1960's, a Volkswagen car took 19 man-hours to build, thanks largely to semi-automatic aids.
▪ It had a dolphin-shaped nose and a semi-automatic gearbox.
▪ The Fordist labour process base is semi-automatic assembly-line production on the Detroit model.
▪ The manufacture and sale of nine types of foreign and domestic semi-automatic assault weapons would also be prohibited for three years.
▪ There's also 2 Smith and Wesson revolvers and a Beretta semi-automatic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
semi-automatic

1853, from semi- + automatic (adj.). In reference to firearms, 1889.

Wiktionary
semi-automatic

a. 1 Partially automatic. 2 Of a firearm that automatically ejects a shell and loads the next one, but requires the trigger to be squeezed for each shot; autoloading. alt. 1 Partially automatic. 2 Of a firearm that automatically ejects a shell and loads the next one, but requires the trigger to be squeezed for each shot; autoloading. n. 1 (context weapons English) A semi-automatic firearm, especially such a pistol. 2 (context automotive English) A semi-automatic transmission

Wikipedia
Semi-automatic

Semi-automatic may refer to:

  • A semi-automatic firearm, a firearm which automatically reloads, but will only fire one round per trigger pull
    • Semi-automatic rifle
    • Semi-automatic pistol
    • Semi-automatic shotgun
  • Semiautomatic switching system, a term used in telecommunication
  • Semi-automatic transmission, a vehicle transmission with no clutch pedal
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Usage examples of "semi-automatic".

I turned around and saw Lamar stomping toward us over the beach from the far end, the sun shining off his dark bald head, a day pack on his back, his own semi-automatic slung over his shoulder.

It was a surprise, not the standard police revolver but a semi-automatic pistol, and from the big handle Rambo decided it was a Browning 9 millimeter.

He dislikes recoil, in a handgun, and excessive report, and distrusts semi-automatic weapons.

But the crane was semi-automatic, so when he had managed to swing the boom out over the backend of the carrier and bring the auger in range of the crane’.

But the crane was semi-automatic, so when he had managed to swing the boom out over the backend of the carrier and bring the auger in range of the crane?

Every effort was made to modify the cross-section of the powerful impulse field jets to adapt them as military weapons and to augment the existing electronic remote control system by a semi-automatic switch arrangement for the armament designed to react to ultra-microwave steering signals.

Improper lane-changing etiquette has resulted in two drivers pulling out semi-automatics and inconsiderately shooting each other in the diamond lane of the interstate.

Amid much swearing and hard work, the balky computers were taken out of the loop and the systems were routed through much more primitive manual and semi-automatic switches.