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Definition: Rifle |
RifleNoun1. A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired". Verb1. Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners". 2. Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rifle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Rifle \Ri"fle\, noun. [Akin to Danish rifle, or riffel, the rifle of a gun, a chamfer (compare to riffel, riffelb["o]sse, a rifle gun, rifle to rifle a gun, German riefeln, riefen, to chamfer, groove), and English rive. See Rive, and compare to Riffle, Rivel.]. (references) |
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Literature | Rifle is from the German reifeln (to hollow into tubes). In 1851 the French minié rifle was partially supplied to the British army. In 1853 it was superseded by the Enfield rifle, which has three grooves. Sir William Armstrong's gun, which has numerous small sharp grooves, was adopted by the government in 1859. The Whitworth gun has a polygonal bore, with a twist towards the muzzle. ("Rifle" is Norwegian for a groove or flute. Rifles are either "breech-loaders" or "magazine rifles" Breech-loading rifles load at the breech instead of at the muzzle; magazine rifles are those which contain a chamber with extra cartridges. The chief breech-loading rifles are the Ballard, the Berdan, the Chaffee, the Chassepot (a French needle-gun, 1870-1871), the Flobert-Gras (an improved Chassepot, 1874-1880), the Greene, the Hall, the Minie-Henry (Great Britain, 1890), the Maxim, the Magnard, the Minie the Morgensten, the Peabody, the Peabody-Martini (Turkey), the Scott, the Sharp, the Springfield (United States, 1893), the Werder (Bavaria, the Werndi, the Whittemore, the Westley-Richards, and the Winchester. The magazine or repeating-rifles are also very numerous. The best known to the general public are Colt's revolver and the Winchester repeating-rifle of 1892. They are of three classes: (1) those in which the magazine is in the stock; (2) those in which the magazine is a tube parallel with the barrel (as in Colt's revolver); and (3) those in which the magazine is either a fixed or detachable box near, the lock. The once famous Enfield rifle was loaded at the muzzle. In Spencer's rifle the magazine was in the stock. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. As used by drillers, a borehole that is following or has followed a spiral or corkscrew course; also said of a drill core that has spiral grooves appearing on its outside surface b. A drill hole, in rock, that has become three-cornered while drilling. c. Applied to the three-cornered section of a hole drilled by hand. Though the bit is supposed to be turned one-eighth after each blow, to insure a circular hole, the majority of hand-drilled holes are three-cornere. (references) |
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In its strict sense a rifle is a gun possessed of a rifled barrel; such a device is also assumed to be a small arm designed for aimed, discretionary fire by an individual. A rifle has a stock, either fixed or folding, and is thus a shoulder arm. Typically, rifles are firearms, with other modes of propulsion being qualified, by far the most common being the air rifle. A rifle is also of a specific length, beneath which a gun is a carbine, although this length is purely arbitrary. The advent of the repeating rifle, and particularly of the automatic rifle, has caused this definition further mutation; as machine-gun mechanisms became smaller and lighter we have seen the self-loading rifle, the battle rifle, and most recently the assault rifle. In its purest form an unqualified rifle is usually assumed to be a hunting weapon of classical appearance. This definition is complicated by the existence of rifled shotguns, which are designed to fire large lead slugs in a manner similar to old-style muskets, albeit with greater accuracy. On a larger scale, artillery and tank cannon are often rifled, as well.
Over a period of four hundred years, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, during which industrial production brought the expensive, precision machining required to mass-produce rifles down to a reasonable price, the rifle replaced its smooth-bore cousin, the musket, as the standard infantry arm of armies worldwide. Rifling, in its simplest form, consists of a series of helical grooves cut into the bore of a rifle barrel, something familiar from the opening 'sting' at the beginning of James Bond films (from the 19th century it has also been common for the bore to resemble a twisted polygonal shape). As the bullet travels down the barrel it screws itself into the grooves, imparting a spin which stabilizes the projectile gyroscopically; this effect became more pronounced as cylindrical bullets replaced lead balls in the 19th century (although such bullets are still called ball ammunition to this day). Bullet and cartridge development is extremely complicated and requires a write-up of its own; suffice it to say, bullets have become smaller and pointier over time, from .50 inch lead balls to .223 spikes, whilst cartridges have evolved from simple paper tubes containing powder and shot to shorter, more powerful, waterproof brass cases.
Rifles have been designed with a variety of actions over the years, originally being single-shot, muzzle-loading affairs powered by black powder. During the 18th century breech loaders, which allowed the rifleman to reload whilst under cover, came to the fore, and during the century after that multi-shot repeating rifles, using lever, pump, and latterly bolt actions, became standard. By the end of the 19th century the leading bolt-action design was that of Paul Mauser, whose action, wedded to a reliable design possessed of a five-shot magazine, became a world standard through two world wars, closely followed by Britain's Lee-Enfield and America's 1903 Springfield model. At this point civilian rifle design reached a peak from which it has barely moved; modern hunting rifles have fiberglass stocks and more advanced recoil pads, but are fundamentally the same as infantry rifles from 1910.
WW2 saw the first mass fielding of self-loading, semi-automatic rifles, including the famous M1 Garand, and by the end of that war the modern infantry assault rifle was born; all developments since then have been of refinement rather than revolution, the few radically new designs - flechette projectiles and combustible case 'caseless' cartridges - proving to be too far ahead of their time for widespread adoption. Historically, rifle design has been driven by the needs of the military, which it has in turn shaped. Whilst muskets were used for rapid, unaimed volley fire, the rifle was originally a sharp-shooter's weapon, used for targets of opportunity and sniper fire. As the 20th century dawned and progressed, riflemen were trained to shoot accurately over long ranges with high-powered cartridges. During WW2 and afterwards, with the advent of the portable light machinegun and of automatic rifles, rapid, aimed fire at closer ranges became prevalent. Today, an infantryman's rifle is capable of accurately engaging targets at up to 300 or more meters, whilst also being capable of bursts of automatic fire for much closer range.
Accurate, long-range fire is the mysterious and glamorous domain of the sniper, and of enthusiastic target shooters. The modern sniper rifle is generally capable of accuracy greatly below that of one minute of angle. Some large-calibre designs are capable of hitting an unfortunate human being at a distance of over a thousand meters, or a human-sized static target at twice than range.
See also: assault rifle, sniper, firearm action, Mauser, Winchester, Springfield, Martini-Henry, Lee-Enfield, Sharps, Colt, Marlin, pistol, carbine, bayonet, Baker, Brunswick, musket, M1 Garand
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Rifle is a city located in Garfield County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,784.Geography
Rifle is located at 39°32'13" North, 107°46'58" West (39.536992, -107.782709)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.2 km² (4.3 mi²). 11.1 km² (4.3 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.92% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 6,784 people, 2,493 households, and 1,710 families residing in the city. The population density is 610.6/km² (1,581.1/mi²). There are 2,586 housing units at an average density of 232.7/km² (602.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 91.54% White, 0.44% African American, 0.68% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 4.75% from other races, and 2.28% from two or more races. 16.26% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 2,493 households out of which 41.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.8% are married couples living together, 8.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 31.4% are non-families. 25.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.68 and the average family size is 3.22. In the city the population is spread out with 30.9% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 34.4% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 31 years. For every 100 females there are 106.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.7 males. The median income for a household in the city is $42,734, and the median income for a family is $48,714. Males have a median income of $36,517 versus $25,527 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,376. 6.4% of the population and 3.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.8% are under the age of 18 and 9.8% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rifle, Colorado."
Synonyms: RifleSynonyms: despoil (v), foray (v), go (v), loot (v), pillage (v), plunder (v), ransack (v), reave (v), strip (v). (additional references) |
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Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Arms | Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb: |
Stealing | Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster. |
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Screenplays | This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick) Phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Harlan Ellison) I want an official Red Rider carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, and Jean Shepherd.) The rifle is the first weapon you learn how to use, because it lets you keep your distance from the client (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other (Glory; writing credit: Robert Gould Shaw; Lincoln Kirstein) | |
Lyrics | So they put a rifle in my hand (BORN IN THE U.S.A.; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) I've got a shotgun, a rifle (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock) I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins) Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo (If It Makes You Happy; performing artist: Sheryl Crow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Rifle implacable (1964) The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964) Kentucky Rifle (1956) Lay That Rifle Down (1955) Springfield Rifle (1952) | |
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 | Arctic wildflowers - rifle for scale. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Indian porpoise hunters of Passamaquoddy Bay Canoe, rifle, and lance for capture of porpoise From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | After completing the combat rifle portion of Defender Challenge 2000, Capt. Steve Sugiyama, from the 11th Wing at Bolling Air Force Base, D.C., ensures that all rounds issued had been fired at the ammunition declaration tent at Camp Bullis, Texas, Oct. 31. |  | Nancy Harms portrays a woman pioneer with a rifle and a coyote pelt. Credit: John Craig. |
 | A "No Rifle Shooting" sign near the Chadwick Hill Marsh. Credit: John Craig. |  | [Man holding a rifle, surrounded by dead squirrels]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Marines rest in the field on Guadalcanal, circa August-December 1942. Most of these Marines are armed with M1903 bolt-action rifles and carry M1905 bayonets and USMC 1941 type packs. Two men high on the hill at right wear mortar vests and one in center has a World War I type grenade vest. The Marine seated at far right has a Browning Automatic Rifle. Credit: NAVY. |  | Captain Warren Frederick Martin Clemens, British Solomon Islands Protectorate Defense Force (BSIPDF), with six members of the BSIPDF Scouts, on Guadalcanal circa the later part of 1942. Clemens identifies these men as (standing beside him): Daniel Pule (left) and Andrew Langabaea. Those seated are (left to right): Olorere, Gumu, Chaparuka and Chaku. Each of the Scouts is armed with a British SMLE #1 rifle. Clemens, the British Colonial Service District Officer on Guadalcanal, had remained on the island throughout its May-August 1942 occupation by the Japanese. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Man with pipe and rifle leaning up against a tree. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A man lay in the drifts, his rifle beside him. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Rifle" by Stefan Lindgren Commentary: "Rifle photo taken from groundlevel *Frog level Suroundingf Snow!." | "Air-rifle-2" by Ben Pereboom Commentary: "Dutch air rifle shooter." |
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 | Bullet shooting from an automatic rifle. | | A 22 caliber rifle shot being fired. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The tenant man stared after it, his rifle in his hand |
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Health | Whether it's the screech of a chain saw, the sudden blast of a hunting rifle, or the roar of a lawn mower, exposure to loud sounds can cause Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Lebanon | Demonstrators were beaten with rifle butts, kicked, and trampled by security forces. (references) |
Burundi | When the group protested, gendarmes violently dispersed the crowd and beat participants with fists and rifle butts. (references) | |
Economic History | Mozambique | The national emblem, a book covered by a crossed rifle and a hoe superimposed on a yellow star, is centered on a red triangle background on the left side of the flag. (references) |
Human Rights | Cameroon | The noise had awakened the gendarme, Angang, who emerged from his house with a rifle. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The men beat the driver and passengers with rifle butts and then set the car on fire. (references) | |
Bangladesh | The police attacked the procession with batons and rifle butts and arrested 47 demonstrators. (references) | |
Minorities | India | In June in Bhojpur, Bihar, four Dalits were attacked by an upper-caste mob on suspicion of stealing a rifle from a wealthy farmer of a higher caste. (references) |
Political Economy | Tajikistan | The Russian Army's 201st Motorized Rifle Division, part of a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) peacekeeping force established in 1993, remained in the country and continued to have a major influence on political developments; however, the division transitioned into a new status on a permanent military base after the peacekeeping mandate ended in September 2000. Members of the government security forces and government-aligned militias committed serious human rights abuses. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. |
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| "Rifle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.16% of the time. "Rifle" is used about 716 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.16% | 710 | 9,437 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 716 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Rifle, CO (city, FIPS 64255) |
Expressions using "rifle": aim a rifle at smb. ♦ air rifle ♦ assault rifle ♦ automatic rifle ♦ Browning automatic rifle ♦ Enfield rifle ♦ Express rifle ♦ Flobert rifle ♦ Garand rifle ♦ hunting rifle ♦ machine rifle ♦ magazine rifle ♦ mauser rifle ♦ mechanized rifle brigade ♦ Minie rifle ♦ minis rifle ♦ muzzle loading rifle ♦ muzzle on a rifle ♦ point a rifle at ♦ recoilless antitank rifle ♦ recoilless rifle ♦ repeating rifle ♦ rifle ball ♦ rifle butt ♦ rifle club ♦ rifle corps ♦ rifle drill ♦ rifle fire ♦ rifle grenade ♦ rifle pit ♦ rifle practise ♦ rifle range ♦ rifle shot ♦ rifle shots ♦ rifle smb.'s pockets ♦ rifle through ♦ semiautomatic rifle ♦ Snider rifle ♦ Westley Richards rifle ♦ winchester rifle. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "rifle": rifle-barrel, rifle-bird, rifle-bolts, rifle-butt, rifle-fire, rifle-green, rifle-pit, rifle-pits, rifle-range, rifle-shot. | |
Ending with "rifle": air-rifle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rifle | 1,842 | mauser rifle | 130 |
air rifle | 1,196 | pellet rifle | 128 |
rifle scope | 1,003 | sharps rifle | 127 |
sniper rifle | 937 | rifle target | 122 |
national rifle association | 513 | tikka rifle | 118 |
winchester rifle | 426 | sniper paintball rifle | 118 |
sks rifle | 350 | browning automatic rifle | 113 |
remington rifle | 311 | springfield rifle | 112 |
hunting rifle | 257 | rifle case | 111 |
22 rifle | 254 | military rifle | 108 |
marlin rifle | 251 | rifle for sale | 104 |
airsoft rifle | 242 | m16 rifle | 102 |
rifle stock | 229 | 223 caliber rifle | 99 |
rifle colorado | 187 | airsoft sniper rifle | 99 |
savage rifle | 169 | rifle barrels | 98 |
ruger rifle | 154 | weatherby rifle | 95 |
black powder rifle | 147 | bushmaster rifle | 93 |
sako rifle | 144 | custom rifle | 83 |
browning rifle | 136 | crossman air rifle | 80 |
henry rifle | 135 | cetme rifle | 80 |
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| Language | Translations for "rifle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, conk, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), pushke, pushkë (gun), karabinë (carbine), dyfek. (various references) | |
Arabic | نهب (despoilment, flay, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rip off, robbery, sack, sacking, spoil, spoliation, stole, strip), قذف بقوة بالغة, سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), خدد حلزونيا, بندقية (gun, shooter). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нарез (groove, indent, knurl, thread, track, ward), пушка (gun, piece), претършувам и обирам, правя витлов нарез на оръжие, плячкосвам (despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, ravish, sack, spoil). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鎗 (reins of leather, spear), 槍 (firearm, gun, spear), 步枪, 步槍 , 來福槍 . (various references) | |
Czech | puška (gun), prohledat (comb out, go through, ransack, rummage, search, seek through), oloupit (bereave, despoil, Rob, strip), obrat (conversion, ply, return, reverse, spoil, strip, trim, turn, turnover, veer), žlábkovat (rabbet, trench). (various references) | |
Danish | gevær (gun). (various references) | |
Dutch | geweer (gun), roer (barrel, channel, gun, handlebars, helm, pipe, rudder, Ruhr, tube). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fusilo (gun). (various references) | |
Faeroese | byrsa (gun). (various references) | |
Farsi | لخت کردن (Doin, Harry, Pluck, Ransack, Rob, Skin, Strip), تفنگ (Gun), عده تفنگدار, دزدیدن (Embezzle, Peak, Picaroonp, Pick, Prig, Purloin, Rob, Spoliate, Steal, Thieve). (various references) | |
Finnish | rihlata, pyssy (gun), kivääri (gun). (various references) | |
French | fusil. (various references) | |
Frisian | gewear (gun). (various references) | |
German | Gewehr (gun, shotgun), Büchse (box, caddy, can, collecting box, gun, tin). (various references) | |
Greek | τουφέκι (gun, musket, shot gun). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רובה (firearm, gun). (various references) | |
Hungarian | karabély (carabin, carabine, carbine, musket). (various references) | |
Indonesian | senjata (gun, weapon), senapan (gun), merampok (ransack, raven, rob). (various references) | |
Irish | gunna (gun). (various references) | |
Italian | fucile (firelock, gun), carabina (carbine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ライフル銃 (Leipzig, librarian, library, life-work, lilac, lime, limelight, live, live house, live recording, live show, rhyme, ribosome), ライト級 (competition, life, life cycle, life jacket, life science, life vest, lifeboat, life-cycle energy, life-service, life-size, life-style, lifetime, lightweight, line drive, liner, liner notes, lining, linotype, ride, rival), 小銃 (small arms). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ライフルじゅう, ライフル , しょうじゅう (small arms). (various references) | |
Korean | 소총. (various references) | |
Malay | bedil (gun). (various references) | |
Manx | roostey (bare, debunk, deprive, exposure, hull, peel, peeling, rind, rob, strip, strip of a girl, stripping, unbark), ronsaghey (beat for game, consult; consultation, debate, examine, explore, forage, frisk, investigate, look into, ransack, rummage, scrutinize, scrutinizing, search, searching), raifyl, gunn laue (pistol). (various references) | |
Norwegian | gevær (gun). (various references) | |
Papiamen | skopèt (gun). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ifleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | espingarda (gun, repeater, shotgun). (various references) | |
Romanian | trage în, puşcã (gun, weapon), jgheab (chase, conduct, cradle, eaves, flume, flute, groove, gully, gutter, horse-pond, jet, notch, sewer, shoe, spout, trough, valley), ghintui (groove, rivet, thread), devaliza (loot, Rob, sack, strip), carabinã (carabine, carbine), canelurã (channel, flute, groove, lug, notch, rut), armã (arms, gun, weapon), împuşca (bag, execute, fire, gun, pip, pistol, pop, pot, shoot). (various references) | |
Russian | винтовка (gun). (various references) | |
Scottish | gunna (a gun, cannon, gun). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | užlebiti (groove, rabbet), pucati iz puške, puška (gun, piece, shotgun), puščani, opljačkati (burglarize, burgle, depredate, despoil, hold up, pillage, pirate, ransack, rob, sack, scourge, stick up), ispreturati, cev vatrenog oružja. (various references) | |
Spanish | fusil (carabine, carbine, carbineer, Fusil, gun), escopeta (gun, shotgun), rifle. (various references) | |
Sranan | gon (gun). (various references) | |
Swedish | gevär (firearm, gun, rifles, shotgun), räffla (chamfer, channel, furrow, groove, knurl, mill, rib, rifling). (various references) | |
Tagalog | baríl (gun). (various references) | |
Thai | ปืนเล็กยาว, ปล้น (maraud, raid, raven, rob), ค้น. (various references) | |
Turkish | tüfek (Fusil, gun, piece). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tьpeс. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стріляти з гвинтівки, гвинтівка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | súng săn. (various references) | |
Welsh | dryll (gun, part, piece). (various references) | |
Yucatec | ts'oon (gun). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | rifler. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rifle": riflebird, riflebirds, rifled, rifleman, riflemen, rifler, rifleries, riflers, riflery, rifles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rifle": trifle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rifle": trifled, trifler, triflers, trifles, unrifled. (additional references) | |
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"Rifle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Grifel, Jrflla, Orfila, rafale, rafalo, rafle, Refiloe, reflew, refly, rible, Ribli, ridlet, riele, rifel, rifen, rifley, rifly, rilke, rilu, riola, riole, rioli, riule, rufile, ryalle, Zipfel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rifle" (pronounced rī"ful) |
| 5 | r ī" f u l | trifle. |
| 4 | -ī" f u l | stifle. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, thoughtful, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: filer, flier, lifer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: file, fire, lief, lier, life, lire, reif, riel, rife, rile. | |
-2 letters: elf, fer, fie, fil, fir, ire, lei, lie, ref, rei, rif. | |
-3 letters: ef, el, er, if, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: ferial, ferlie, filers, filler, filmer, filter, fliers, ireful, liefer, lifers, lifter, pilfer, refile, refill, refilm, relief, rifely, riffle, rifled, rifler, rifles, trifle. | |
+2 letters: briefly, defiler, direful, failure, febrile, ferlies, fertile, fickler, fiddler, fielder, fierily, filaree, filbert, filcher, fillers, filmers, filmier, filters, firefly, firelit, flakier, flamier, flawier, flaxier, flicker, flinder, flinger, flipper, flirted, flirter, flitter, flivver, flueric, flukier, flutier, flytier, fragile, frailer, friable, fribble, frijole, frilled, friller, frizzle, gulfier, leafier, lifters, loftier, lucifer, pilfers, prefile, prelife, profile, refiled, refiles, refills, refilms, reflies, reliefs, riffled, riffler, riffles, riflers, riflery, stifler, trefoil, trifled, trifler, trifles. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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