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" If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter."
Zachary Levi

Meaning of "gun battle" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF GUN BATTLE

ɡʌn ˈbætəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GUN BATTLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gun battle is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GUN BATTLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of gun battle in the English dictionary

The definition of gun battle in the dictionary is a violent fight between groups of people in which guns are used.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GUN BATTLE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GUN BATTLE

gun · gun barrel · gun carriage · gun control · gun control laws · gun crew · gun crime · gun culture · gun dog · gun for · gun laws · gun licence · gun lobby · gun moll · gun room · gun turret · gun-shy · gun-toting · gunboat · gunboat diplomacy

WORDS THAT END LIKE GUN BATTLE

air battle · beef cattle · black wattle · death rattle · do battle · domestic cattle · give battle · golden wattle · Highland cattle · join battle · line of battle · little · longhorn cattle · losing battle · pitched battle · sea battle · tittle-tattle · trial by battle · wager of battle · wattle · yellow rattle

Synonyms and antonyms of gun battle in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gun battle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GUN BATTLE

Find out the translation of gun battle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gun battle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gun battle» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

枪战
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

tiroteo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

gun battle
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बंदूक की लड़ाई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معركة بالاسلحة النارية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

перестрелка
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

arma batalha
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বন্দুক যুদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

fusillade
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pertempuran senjata
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schießerei
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

銃撃戦
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

총격전
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Perang batangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cuộc đấu súng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

துப்பாக்கி சண்டை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तोफा लढाई
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Silah savaşı
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pistola battaglia
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

armata bitwa
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

перестрілка
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

armă de luptă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

gun μάχη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geweer geveg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

eldstrid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skuddveksling
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gun battle

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2 QUOTES WITH «GUN BATTLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gun battle.
1
Roma Downey
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.
2
Zachary Levi
If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUN BATTLE»

Discover the use of gun battle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gun battle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
the battle for two jima
Under the cover of darkness, without even the customary gun battle, the Japanese invasion of some 1,000 men, jam-packed in two converted destroyers, ran on the reef on the south side of the airstrip, just at the precise location where the ...
2
Battle for the City of the Dead: In the Shadow of the Golden ...
Later, Robertson crouched on the roof of a hotel in the dark, watching a two-hour gun battle. He saw lines of machine-gun tracers pierce the night sky and then float through the air until they burnt out. Flashes, followed by the heavy crump of ...
Dick Camp, 2011
3
The Hall Street Shoot-Out: A True Story of the Dallas Police ...
A True Story of the Dallas Police Department's Biggest Gun Battle Captain E. R. Walt. would have chosen, was used to good effect by Johnny Thomas. With it he managed to kill one and wound eight others, including experienced, well armed ...
Captain E. R. Walt, 2010
4
Ghetto Child
The gun battle was on. Boom Boom , pop pop pop boom boom pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop.The officers didn't know what hit them they were sprayed with automatic weapons. During ...
Dion Perkins, 2010
5
Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control
... a four-page letter calling the Metzenbaum bill "the first federal gun ban bill in America" and painting the battle in near-apocalyptic terms: "You and I are in the middle of the most urgent and critical federal gun battle we have faced in 12 years.
Osha Gray Davidson, 1998
6
The Sound of Distant Drums: Veteran's Voices from the ...
By the time we had returned to the Philippines, the war ended on August 15, 1945. The battle of Surigao Strait was the last gun to gun battle of WWII. The Minneapolis's assigned target was the UN battleship Yamashi.ro, equipped with 3 or 4 ...
Chuck Knox, 2005
7
Through Thick and Thin
“Better listen to him,” Branson warned, finally choosing to speak. “It might be your last chance.” “Shut up!” Battle snapped. “Don't tempt me,” he muttered, still waving the gun. “Battle,” Travis pleaded, “This is crazy. C'mon, let's go! Don't make it ...
Kevin Waddle, 2001
8
The Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery
In Jim Cirillo's most famous gun battle, his strongest memory was seeing the front sight of his S&W Model 10 in such stark clarity that he was aware of every imperfection in the tiny grooves machined across its surface. In that gunfight, he shot ...
Massad Ayoob, 2007
9
John Woo: Interviews
MR: An obvious question would be, why a gun battle in a church? JW: Good question. A lot of people wonder why I used a church for a gun battle scene, especially for the final fight. In the beginning, the killer is sitting in the church. I wanted to ...
John Woo, Robert K. Elder, 2005
10
Not Just Child's Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys ...
After speaking extensively with Paul, I realized the subtlety in what I thought were relatively straightforward texts: Ichayo hotongutho lota They fought a gun battle until they lay on the ground. Ichayo hotongutho lota They fought a gun battle until  ...
Felicia R. McMahon, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUN BATTLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gun battle is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Ukrainian Security Chiefs Meet After Gun Battle in Nation's West
President Petro Poroshenko convened a meeting of security chiefs after a weekend gun battle in western Ukraine left at least two people dead. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
2
True Detective body count soars as HBO show ends in fiery gun battle
True Detective featured a truly high jump in the body count on Sunday's episode of the HBO series. The fourth episode of the second season of ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Far right group challenges Ukraine's government after gun battle.
... group has demanded the resignation of the county's interior minister while blocking roads around Kyiv in a protest following a fatal gun battle. «euronews, Jul 15»
4
Philippine police kill five suspects in gun battle
Philippine police killed five suspected car thieves and robbers in a gun battle on Sunday north of Manila in an ongoing anti-crime crackdown, ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
5
Five suspected terrorists killed in Tunisia gun battle as thousands of …
Security forces in Tunisia have killed five suspected extremists in the central region of the country, the Tunisian Interior Ministry has said. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Gun Battle During San Leandro Home Invasion
Officers responded at 12:45 a.m. to a residence in the 2100 block of Lakeview Drive on a report of a home invasion robbery in which a victim ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»
7
Twin suicide attacks, gun battle rocks Paktia province
He said the second car bomb was detonated a few minutes later following the first blast and heavy gun battle was triggered after a group of ... «Khaama Press, Jul 15»
8
Police kills criminal suspects during gun battle in Port Harcourt
Police kills criminal suspects during gun battle in Port Harcourt The Rivers state Police Command says it has killed several criminal elements in ... «DailyPost Nigeria, Jul 15»
9
Gun battle at NDS, NATO convoy hit by car bomb
On Tuesday, several gunmen stormed the installation in Kabul that houses Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
10
Video: Ga. man shot multiple times, deputy unhurt in gun battle
LEGRANGE, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating an officer-involved LaGrange shooting in which a Troup County ... «Police News, Jul 15»
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