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Gunrunning

Definition: Gunrunning

Gunrunning

Noun

1. The smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally.

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


Usage Frequency: Gunrunning

"Gunrunning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gunrunning" is used about 2 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%2245,945

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

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Specialty Definition: Gunrunning

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Gunrunning is contraband (smuggling) in weapons and ammunition. Not surprisingly, it is most widespread in regions of political turmoil, but is by no means limited to such areas. The suppression of gunrunning is one of the areas of increasing interest in the context of international law.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gunrunning."

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Modern Translations: Gunrunning

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

Albanian

  

kontrabandë (contraband, smuggling). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تهريب السلاح. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

контрабанда с оръжие. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λαθρεμπόριο όπλων (gun running). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"ברחת שק. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unrunninggay

   

Russian 

  

незаконный ввоз оружия (gun-running). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

krijumčarenje vatrenog oružja. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vapensmuggling. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

silâh kaçakçılığı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Gunrunning

Derivations

Words beginning with "gunrunning": gunrunnings. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Gunrunning

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-g-i-n-n-n-n-r-u-u"

-3 letters: gunning, running.

-4 letters: urging.

-5 letters: inurn, ruing, unrig.

 Words containing the letters "g-g-i-n-n-n-n-r-u-u"
 

+1 letter: gunrunnings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Gunrunning


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

47 75 6E 72 75 6E 6E 69 6E 67

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)

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

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

01000111 01110101 01101110 01110010 01110101 01101110 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0075 006E 0072 0075 006E 006E 0069 006E 0067

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

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

41878084878080758073

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Gunrunning"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, арабский, arapski, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 'ούλγαρος, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, Ρώσος, רוסי, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, Rusça

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjesrpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningsuedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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