Definitions for RIFLE
ˈraɪ fəlri·fle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rifleverb

   a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore

   "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"

2. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

   steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

3. rifle, goverb

   go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way

   "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. riflenoun

   A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.

2. rifleverb

   to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

3. rifleverb

   To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle)

   She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.

4. rifleverb

   To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

5. rifleverb

   To strike something with great power.

6. Etymology: from rifler, from Old Low Franconian *riffilōn (compare obsolete rijffelen 'to scrape', geriflian, riffeln, riffilōn), frequentative of rīfanan (compare rifa). More at rive.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To RIFLEverb

   To rob; to pillage; to plunder.

   Etymology: riffer, rifler, Fr. rijfelen, Dutch.

   Stand, Sir, and throw us what you have about you; if not, we’ll make you, Sir, and rifle you. William Shakespeare.

   Men, by his suggestion taught,
   Ransack’d the centre, and with impious hands
   Rifled the bowels of their mother earth
   For treasures better hid. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i.

   You have rifled my master, who shall maintain me? Roger L'Estrange.

   A commander in the parliament’s rebel army rifled and defaced the cathedral at Litchfield. South.

   Mine is thy daughter, priest, and shall remain,
   And pray’rs, and tears, and bribes shall plead in vain,
   Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rifle

   A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with both hands and braced firmly against the shooter's shoulder via a buttstock for stability during shooting. Rifles are used extensively in warfare, law enforcement, hunting, shooting sports, and crime. The term was originally rifled gun, with the verb rifle referring to the early modern machining process of creating groovings with cutting tools. By the 20th century, the weapon had become so common that the modern noun rifle is now often used for any long-shaped handheld ranged weapon designed for well-aimed discharge activated by a trigger (e.g., personnel halting and stimulation response rifle, which is actually a laser dazzler). Like all typical firearms, a rifle's projectile (bullet) is propelled by the contained deflagration of a combustible propellant compound (originally black powder, later cordite, and now nitrocellulose), although other propulsive means are used, such as compressed air in air rifles, which are popular for vermin control, small game hunting, competitive target shooting and casual sport shooting (plinking). The distinct feature that separates a rifle from the earlier smoothbore long guns (e.g., arquebuses, muskets) is the rifling within its barrel. The raised areas of a barrel's rifling are called lands; they make contact with and exert torque on the projectile as it moves down the bore, imparting a spin. When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin persists and lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile due to conservation of angular momentum, increasing accuracy and hence effective range. Early long rifles were muzzle-loaders firing spherical balls; the introduction of breech-loading allowed the use of elongated and aerodynamically efficient bullets, which did not yaw or tumble significantly in flight due to the spin.

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1. rifle

   A rifle is a type of long-barreled firearm designed for precise shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls. This rifling imparts a spin to a projectile around its long axis, which improves its aerodynamic stability and accuracy. The specific design characteristics of a rifle purpose varies, but generally they are used in hunting, sport shooting, and military operations.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rifleverb

   to seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off

2. Rifleverb

   to strip; to rob; to pillage

3. Rifleverb

   to raffle

4. Rifleverb

   to raffle

5. Rifleverb

   to commit robbery

6. Riflenoun

   a gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket

7. Riflenoun

   a body of soldiers armed with rifles

8. Riflenoun

   a strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes

9. Rifleverb

   to grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon

10. Rifleverb

    to whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3

11. Etymology: [F. rifler to rifle, sweep away; of uncertain origin. CF. Raff.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rifle

   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, imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile and prevents tumbling, in the same way that a properly thrown American football or rugby ball behaves. This allows the use of aerodynamically-efficient pointed bullets and thus improves range and accuracy. The word "rifle" originally referred to the grooving, and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." Rifles are used in warfare, hunting and shooting sports. Typically, a bullet is propelled by the contained deflagration of an explosive compound, although other means such as compressed air are used in air rifles, which are popular for vermin control, hunting small game, formal target shooting and casual shooting.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Rifle

   rī′fl, v.t. to carry off by force: to strip, to rob: to whet, as a scythe.—n. Rī′fler. [O. Fr. rifler—Scand., Ice. hrífa, to seize.]

2. Rifle

   rī′fl, v.t. to groove spirally, as a gun-barrel.—n. a musket with a barrel spirally grooved—many varieties, the Enfield, Minié, Martini-Henry, Chassepot, Mannlicher-repeating, Remington, Lee-Metford, &c.—ns. Rī′fle-bird, an Australian bird-of-Paradise; Rī′fle-corps, a body of soldiers armed with rifles; Rī′fleman, a man armed with a rifle; Rī′fle-pit, a pit dug to shelter riflemen; Rī′fle-range, a place for practice with the rifle; Rī′fling, the act of cutting spiral grooves in the bore of a gun; Rī′fling-machine′. [Scand.; Dan. rifle, to groove, freq. of rive, to tear.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rifle

   A fire-arm having a number of spiral grooves cut into the surface of its bore, for the purpose of giving the projectile a motion about a line coinciding with the direction of its flight. See Ordnance, Small-arms, Magazine Guns, and Lyman’s Multi-charge Gun.

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1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'RIFLE' in Nouns Frequency: #2927

Anagrams for RIFLE »

1. filer

2. flier

3. lifer

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of RIFLE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of RIFLE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of RIFLE in a Sentence

1. Stoneman Douglas:

   President Donald Trump's a professional liar who will say anything to appease whatever crowd President Donald Trump's at, if President Donald Trump's in front of families, President Donald Trump might say something in support of common sense gun reform. But then when President Donald Trump's at the National Rifle Association, President Donald Trump'll say something to get a big cheer.

2. Paul Lee:

   We did n’t fire many rounds during the military training, i was practicing with the T65 assault rifle, and I only shot about 40 rounds during the entire training period.

3. Sitting Bull:

   I, Tatanka Iyotanka, wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. We have killed enough white men with your rifles, so I give this rifle back to you, for Tunkasila Wakan Tanka will use a different way to help us overcome the white man.

4. Mostafa Saad:

   Once you play with your friends in Palestine you can never imagine yourself holding a rifle instead of your instrument.

5. Don Aaron:

   He saw the gunman looking at his rifle. At that point, the shots had stopped. So he decided to rush the gunman, actually wrestled that assault rifle away, tossed it over the counter. At that point, the gunman then fled.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=RIFLE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rifle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=RIFLE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/RIFLE
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=RIFLE
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=RIFLE
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html