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Gunfight

Definition: Gunfight

Gunfight

Noun

1. A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Gunfight

Synonyms: gunplay (n), shootout (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gunfight

English words defined with "gunfight": outdraw. (references)

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Modern Usage: Gunfight

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Just like a Wop to bring a knife to a gunfight. (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness)

Oh, gunfight, explosions, sharks, you know, the usual. (Lethal Weapon 4; writing credit: Shane Black; Jonathan Lemkin)

Nobody wins in a gunfight. (The Last of the Fast Guns; writing credit: David P. Harmon)

Movie/TV Titles

A Gunfight (1971)

Gunfight in Abilene (1967)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Gunfight

DomainTitle

Books

  • And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Coral Gunfight (reference)

  • Deadly Force Encounters : What Cops Need To Know To Mentally And Physically Prepare For And Survive A Gunfight (reference)

  • Durango Gunfight (reference)

  • Gunfight at Ingalls: Death of an Outlaw Town (reference)

  • Gunfight at Laramie [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Gunfight

Computer Images:
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Non-Fiction Usage: Gunfight

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

India

Authorities claim that he was a foreign militant and that security forces killed him during a gunfight. (references)

Indonesia

Observers said that the gunfight occurred over "turf battles" for protection of gambling dens and drug trade. (references)

Nepal

On January 19, Customs Inspector Sridhar Bhattarai was killed in a gunfight with Maoists in Jambu, Sindhupalchok. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Gunfight

"Gunfight" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Gunfight" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.71%12101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)7.14%1339,140
Noun (proper)7.14%1339,140
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gunfight

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gunfight at ok corral

56

a gunfight

18

corral gunfight o.k

15

gunfight stop

7

coral gunfight ok

3

game gunfight matchstick

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gunfight

Language Translations for "gunfight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Farsi 

  

جنگ باتفنگ یاتپانچه . (various references)

   

French

  

fusillade (gun fire, gunshot). (various references)

   

German

  

Schießerei (gun battle, shoot out, shooting). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sparatoria (shooting). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'ち合い , ガロア理論 (attitude that one must keep going no matter what, darkly tanned face, gallon, Galois theory, gamma, gauntlet, Ghandi, gumbo, gun, gun belt, gun mania, gun shop, Gundam plastic models, gunfighter, gunman, gunner, intense, pounding of headache, sound of large bell, sound of scolding voice). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

うちあい (exchange of blows, long rally), ガンファイト . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unfightgay

   

Spanish

  

balacera. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

eldstrid. (various references)

   

Thai

  

การยิงต่อสู้กัน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

topçu savaşı (gun battle, gunplay). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gunfight

Derivations

Words beginning with "gunfight": gunfighter, gunfighters, gunfighting, gunfights. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Gunfight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: funfight, goniff. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gunfight"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "gunfight" (pronounced gu"nfī't)
3-f ī' tbullfight, dogfight, firefight, gametophyte, graphite, neophyte, sporophyte, sulfite.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Gunfight

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-g-h-i-n-t-u"

-3 letters: fight, fungi, night, thing, unfit.

-4 letters: gift, hint, hung, hunt, nigh, thin, thug, ting, tung, unit.

-5 letters: fig, fin, fit, fug, fun, ghi, gig, gin, git, gnu, gun, gut, hin, hit, hug, hun, hut, nit, nth, nut, tin, tug, tui, tun, ugh.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-g-h-i-n-t-u"
 

+1 letter: gunfights.

 

+2 letters: fraughting, gunfighter.

 

+3 letters: gunfighters, gunfighting, outfighting.

 

+4 letters: bullfighting.

 

+5 letters: bullfightings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Gunfight


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 75 6E 66 69 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    ..-    -.    ..-.    ..    --.    ....    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01110101 01101110 01100110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#117 &#110 &#102 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0075 006E 0066 0069 0067 0068 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4187807275737486

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Gunfight"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungallemand, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalien, italienisch, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 Japonais, japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょJaponais, japaner, japanisch, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés, japansk, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, Japonca

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningsuédois, schwedisch, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí

Thai

พจนานุกรมThaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, tailandese, たい", tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturque, türkisch, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, inglese, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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