"spear gun" meaning in All languages combined

See spear gun on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: spear guns [plural]
Etymology: spear + gun Etymology templates: {{compound|en|spear|gun}} spear + gun Head templates: {{en-noun}} spear gun (plural spear guns)
  1. (fishing) A form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing. Categories (topical): Fishing Translations (type of gun): ψαροτούφεκο (psarotoúfeko) [neuter] (Greek), ψαροντούφεκο (psarontoúfeko) [neuter] (Greek), подво́дное ружьё (podvódnoje ružʹjó) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-spear_gun-en-noun-DcbiczKc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Greek terms with redundant script codes Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for spear gun meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spear",
        "3": "gun"
      },
      "expansion": "spear + gun",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "spear + gun",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spear guns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spear gun (plural spear guns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greek terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fishing",
          "orig": "en:Fishing",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing."
      ],
      "id": "en-spear_gun-en-noun-DcbiczKc",
      "links": [
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "mechanical",
          "mechanical"
        ],
        [
          "gun",
          "gun"
        ],
        [
          "spear",
          "spear"
        ],
        [
          "projectile",
          "projectile"
        ],
        [
          "spearfishing",
          "spearfishing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fishing) A form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "psarotoúfeko",
          "sense": "type of gun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ψαροτούφεκο"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "psarontoúfeko",
          "sense": "type of gun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ψαροντούφεκο"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podvódnoje ružʹjó",
          "sense": "type of gun",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "подво́дное ружьё"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spear gun"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spear",
        "3": "gun"
      },
      "expansion": "spear + gun",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "spear + gun",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spear guns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spear gun (plural spear guns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Greek terms with redundant script codes",
        "en:Fishing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fishing",
          "fishing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "mechanical",
          "mechanical"
        ],
        [
          "gun",
          "gun"
        ],
        [
          "spear",
          "spear"
        ],
        [
          "projectile",
          "projectile"
        ],
        [
          "spearfishing",
          "spearfishing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fishing) A form of mechanical gun that fires a spear as a projectile; generally used under water when spearfishing."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "fishing",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "psarotoúfeko",
      "sense": "type of gun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ψαροτούφεκο"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "psarontoúfeko",
      "sense": "type of gun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ψαροντούφεκο"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podvódnoje ružʹjó",
      "sense": "type of gun",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подво́дное ружьё"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spear gun"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.