Revolver

Definition: Revolver

Revolver

Noun

1. A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets).

Date "revolver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Revolver

Domain	Definitions
Military & Defense	Single barrelled firearm incorporating a revolving cylinder. Source: European Union. (references)
Dream Interpretation	For a young woman to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a revolver, denotes that she will have a serious disagreement with some friend, and probably separation from her lover. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Specialty Definition: Revolver

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Revolvers were the first truly multi shot firearms. Previously a gun that could be quickly fired more than once used multiple barrels and firing mechanisms, which basically equates to welding guns together. A revolver works by having several firing chambers arranged in a circle in a cylindrical block which are brought into alignment with the firing mechanism and barrel one at a time. A single action revolver requires the hammer to be pulled back by hand before each shot. In a double action revolver, the trigger pull can pull back the hammer as well as release it.

Most commonly such guns have a five or six shot capacity, however, some revolvers have up to 10 shot capacity (this often depends on the caliber, though different companies produce revolvers in the same calibers with different capacities, due to other design differences) and each chamber has to be reloaded manually. This makes the procedure of reloading such a weapon slow (even with the help of such devices as quick loaders). The alternatives are a replaceable cylinder, or a "speed-loader" which can reload all chambers at once.

Due to the simplicity of design, a revolver is cheap to make and almost guaranteed to work, first time, every time (the probability of jamming is almost zero). For these reasons, such guns are the most commonly owned weapons for personal self-defence.

External Link

Anatomy of revolver ( http://www.mcw.edu/fic/pages/glossary_revolver.htm )

Revolver is also an album by The Beatles.

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

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Synonyms: Revolver

Synonyms: six-gun (n), six-shooter (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Revolver

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Revolver

English words defined with "revolver": colt ♦ repeating firearm, Revolving firearm, Russian roulette. (references)

Specialty definitions using "revolver": Colt's Revolver ♦ Deuce-Deuce ♦ Revolver. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Revolver" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (revolver), Czech (gun, handgun, pistol, revolver), Danish (revolver), Dutch (revolver), French (equalizer, gun, revolver, shooter), German (colt, gat, gats, gun, revolver, revolvers), Hungarian (automatic, equalizer, gun, revolver, roscoe, shooting iron), Portuguese (circle, fossick, grub, roll, run, spade, tousle, trundle, turn over, upturn, wamble), Romanian (Barker, gat, gun, pistol, revolver), Serbo-Croatian (revolver), Spanish (churn, circulate, mix, stir, toss, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, turn up), Swedish (gun, iron, revolver, shooting iron), Turkish (revolver).

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Modern Usage: Revolver

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You mean the revolver, sir? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl handled revolver. (Patton; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North)
Movie/TV Titles	Revolver (1973) Le Revolver sous la pluie (1972) La Rose et le revolver (1970) Der Revolver des Korporals (1967) Revolver en guardia (1960)
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Commercial Usage: Revolver

Domain	Title
Books	A History of The Colt Revolver and the Other Arms Made by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company from 1836 to 1940 (reference) Every Sound There Is: The Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) (reference) Firepower from Abroad No 2: The Confederate Enfield and the Lemat Revolver (reference) God With Revolver (reference) Gone to Texas (The Colt Revolver Novels) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Revolver (reference) Revolver Revue (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Revolver (reference) Revolver Sangriento (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Revolver [UK] (reference) Space Revolver (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Revolver

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Photo Album: Revolver

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Far East (at left), is greeted at Wonsan airfield by Major General Field Harris, USMC, Commanding General of the First Marine Air Wing, 19 October 1950. Elements of the Wing had arrived at Wonsan by air on 13-17 October. Flight operations were sustained by aerial resupply until the landing beaches were opened on 26 October. Note MGen. Harris' shoulder holster and ammunition for a .38 caliber revolver.Credit: NAVY.		Lieutenant Commander Roger W. Mehle, Commander Air Group 28, reports the results of an air strike on Tinian to Captain Stuart H. Ingersoll, Commanding Officer of USS Monterey (CVL-26), in one of the carrier's ready rooms, 11 June 1944. Note LCdr. Mehle's shoulder holster (marked "U.S.") and revolver.Credit: NAVY.
	I wouldn't call out, Mr. Cardew, said a cold voice, I have my left hand on a revolver.Credit: Library of Congress.		Exterior of New York City high rise building with "A" marking where Arnold Rothstein was shot and "B" marking where revolver found.Credit: Library of Congress.
	U.S.S. Brooklyn, revolver drill.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Revolver

Author	Quotation
Josh Billings	Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Revolver

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Bangladesh	In October 2000, the then-State Minister for Social Welfare Mozammel Hossain (the person in charge of overseeing relief operations in Sathkira district) reportedly actively encouraged ruling party members to attack the press physically by saying "Wherever you will find journalists, break their bones." The next day, a group led by local Awami League leader Nurul Islam ransacked the office of the local daily "Satkhirar Chitro" and assaulted Anisur Rahim, the newspaper's editor, with knives and a revolver; he had to be hospitalized. (references)
Human Rights	Bangladesh	The police found only one broken revolver. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Revolver

"Revolver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.05% of the time. "Revolver" is used about 211 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)	99.05%	209	21,011
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.95%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	211	N/A

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

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Expressions: Revolver

Expressions using "revolver": Colt revolver ♦ revolver shot ♦ service revolver. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Revolver

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
revolver velvet	1,455	youth revolver sweatshirt	20
revolver	537	revolver shackle	20
revolver magazine	211	revolver webley	20
colt revolver	110	revolver gun	19
smith wesson revolver	90	pistol revolver	18
black powder revolver	55	38 revolver	18
beatles revolver	55	nagant revolver	18
dead red revolver	54	9mm revolver	16
free revolver set velvet	48	mp3 revolver velvet	16
taurus revolver	41	antique revolver	16
single action revolver	39	mateba revolver	15
revolver grip	37	revolver rossi	15
airsoft revolver	37	gun hand revolver	15
lyrics revolver velvet	32	357 revolver	15
ruger revolver	32	ball cap revolver	15
revolver holsters	31	revolver holster	14
free lyrics revolver set velvet	28	mag revolver	14
22 revolver	28	revolver.com velvet	14
colt 45 revolver	23	schofield revolver	13
custom revolver	22	money revolver velvet	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Revolver

Language		Translations for "revolver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		rewolwer. (various references)

Albanian		revolver, revole (gun, pistol, rod, shooter). (various references)

Arabic		‏مسدس (colt, gun, hexagon, pistol, rod, shooter). (various references)

Bulgarian		револвер (heater, pistol, repeater, repeating rifle, rod), барабан (barrel, cylinder, drum, roll, sleeve, swift, tambour). (various references)

Chinese		左轮手枪, 左輪手槍 . (various references)

Czech		revolver (gun, handgun, pistol). (various references)

Danish		revolver. (various references)

Dutch		revolver. (various references)

Esperanto		revolvero. (various references)

Farsi		هفت تیر (Pistol). (various references)

Finnish		revolveri. (various references)

French		revolver. (various references)

German		Revolver (colt, gat, gats, gun, revolvers). (various references)

Greek		περίστροφο. (various references)

Hebrew		אקדח תופי. (various references)

Hungarian		revolver (automatic, equalizer, gun, roscoe, shooting iron). (various references)

Irish		gunnÚn. (various references)

Italian		rivoltella (automatic, gun). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		短銃 (pistol), 短筒 (pistol), リベット接合 (determination of a loser to win the next time, liberal, liberalism, liberalist, Liberia, repair, revenge, revolving, revolving loan, revolvingsystem, ribosome, rivet connection), レプトスピラ症 (lepra, leptospirosis, level, lowering the level, paper, proceed to the next level, raising the level of, replica, report, reporter, revolt, revolution). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		たんづつ (pistol), たんじゅう (bile, gall, pistol), リボルバー , レボルバー . (various references)

Korean		연발권총. (various references)

Manx		gunnane. (various references)

Papiamen		revòlver. (various references)

Pig Latin		evolverray

Portuguese		revólver (gate, gun, peacetime, peppercorn, turret). (various references)

Romanian		revolver (Barker, gat, gun, pistol), cilindru (barrel, cylinder, drum, roll, roller). (various references)

Russian		револьвер (barking iron, gat, gun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		revolver. (various references)

Spanish		revólver (gat, gun, handgun). (various references)

Swedish		revolver (gun, iron, shooting iron). (various references)

Turkish		revolver. (various references)

Ukranian		револьвер, барабан (barrel, beater, cylinder, drum, tambour, tympanum). (various references)

Welsh		llawddryll (pistol). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Revolver

Derivations
	Words beginning with "revolver": revolvers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Revolver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: revalve, revolv, revolvar, revolvere. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Revolver"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "revolver" (pronounced rivÄ"lver)
4	-Ä" l v er	dissolver, solver.
3	-l v er	Culver, quicksilver, silver.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Revolver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-r-r-v-v"
	-1 letter: evolver, revolve.
	-2 letters: evolve.
	-3 letters: elver, lever, lover, revel, rover, verve.
	-4 letters: ever, leer, levo, lore, love, orle, over, reel, role, rove, veer, vole.
	-5 letters: eel, ere, err, eve, lee, lev, ole, ore, ree, rev, roe, vee, voe.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-o-r-r-v-v"
	+1 letter: revolvers.
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