Definisjon av rifle på Engelsk

WordNet

Noun
rifle - a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
		firearm, small-arm, piece a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"
		bolt a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
		carbine light automatic rifle
		garand, garand rifle, m-1, m-1 rifle a semiautomatic rifle
		pump action, slide action action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round
		rifle butt the butt end of a rifle
		precision rifle, sniper rifle an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away
Verb
rifle - go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
		go
		search try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
rifle - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
		plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, ransack, pillage, foray
		take ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors"
		deplume, displume strip of honors, possessions, or attributes

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Substantiv
rifle - A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
rifle - A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
Verb
rifle - To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
rifle - To scan many items especially papers in a set, quickly. See also riffle.
rifle - To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
rifle - To strike something with great power.

A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. When the projectile leaves the barrel, the conservation of angular momentum improves accuracy and range, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves.