The meaning of Rifle

Rifle – definition

noun
A gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a long spirally grooved barrel intended to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
Usage examples:
A hunting rifle

verb
Make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
Usage examples:
There are four basic ways to rifle a gun barrel
verb
Hit or kick (a ball) hard and straight.
Usage examples:
Ferguson rifled home his fourth goal of the season

verb
Search through something in a hurried way in order to find or steal something.
Usage examples:
She rifled through the cassette tapes
Synonims:
Rummage Search Hunt Forage Sift Rake Ransack Comb Turn upside down Scour

Rifle translation into English

Rifle: translate from English into Chinese

步枪, 枪, 来福枪, 枪杆, 轮

Rifle: translate from English into Dutch

Geweer-, Geweer, Buks, Roer, Trekken, Groeven

Rifle: translate from English into French

Fusil, Tirer, Vider, Dévaliser, Piller, Voler, Violer, Rafler le contenu

Rifle: translate from English into German

Gewehr, Büchse, Plündern

Rifle: translate from English into Hindi

राइफल, राइफल का, राइफ़ल, रायफ़ल, खोजकर लूटना, लूटना

Rifle: translate from English into Italian

Fucile, Carabina, Schioppo, Vuotare, Ripulire, Svuotare, Sparare da fucile

Rifle: translate from English into Korean

소총, 라이플, 훔치기 위하여 샅샅이 뒤지다, 선조, 샅샅이 뒤지다, 라이플총, 라이플총병, 총포의 선조, 강선을 내다, 총신에 강선을 내다, 포신에 강선을 내다

Rifle: translate from English into Russian

Винтовка, Ружье, Стрелковый, Винтовочный, Ружейный, Нарезное оружие, Стрелять из винтовки, Стрелковая часть, Стрелок, Обшаривать с целью грабежа, Грабить, Нарезать

Rifle: translate from English into Spanish

Rifle, Fusil, Saquear, Desvalijar

Word origin

Middle English: from Old French rifler ‘graze, plunder’, of Germanic origin.

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Rifle – similar words

rifled

adjective
(of a gun or its barrel) having a bore with spiral grooves.
Usage examples:
From the mid-19th century all military weapons had rifled barrels

verb
Make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin and thereby have greater accuracy over a long distance.
Usage examples:
There are four basic ways to rifle a gun barrel

verb
Search through something in a hurried way in order to find or steal something.
Usage examples:
She rifled through the cassette tapes

All meanings and translations of Rifled

Rifle synonims

comb

noun
A strip of plastic, metal, or wood with a row of narrow teeth, used for untangling or arranging the hair.
Usage examples:
This involves lifting the hair with a metal comb and burning off the ends with a lighted taper.

verb
Short for honeycomb (sense 1 of the noun).

All meanings and translations of Comb

forage

verb
(of a person or animal) search widely for food or provisions.
Usage examples:
The birds forage for aquatic invertebrates, insects, and seeds

noun
Food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.
Usage examples:
It may provide enough forage to delay turning cattle into spring pastures with limited growth that …

verb
To go searching, esp. for food
Usage examples:
[ i ] wild dogs roam the streets, foraging for food.

All meanings and translations of Forage

hunt

verb
Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.
Usage examples:
In the autumn they hunted deer

noun
An act of hunting wild animals or game.
Usage examples:
A bear-hunt

All meanings and translations of Hunt

rake

noun
An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
Usage examples:
Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

verb
Draw together with a rake or similar implement.
Usage examples:
I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

noun
A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
Usage examples:
A merry restoration rake

All meanings and translations of Rake

ransack

verb
Go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage.
Usage examples:
Burglars ransacked her home

verb
Search thoroughly

verb
To completely search a place in a way that causes mess and damage
Usage examples:
Burglars ransacked the house.

All meanings and translations of Ransack

rummage

verb
Search unsystematically and untidily through something.
Usage examples:
He rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief

noun
An unsystematic and untidy search.
Usage examples:
Open up the box and have a rummage around

All meanings and translations of Rummage

scour

verb
Clean or brighten the surface of (something) by rubbing it hard, typically with an abrasive or detergent.
Usage examples:
She scoured the cooker

noun
The action of scouring or the state of being scoured, especially by swift-flowing water.
Usage examples:
The scour of the tide may cause lateral erosion

verb
Subject (a place, text, etc.) to a thorough search in order to locate something.
Usage examples:
David scoured each newspaper for an article on the murder

All meanings and translations of Scour

search

verb
Try to find something by looking or otherwise seeking carefully and thoroughly.
Usage examples:
I searched among the rocks, but there was nothing

noun
An act of searching for someone or something.
Usage examples:
The police carried out a thorough search of the premises

verb
Look or seek

All meanings and translations of Search

sift

verb
Put (a fine or loose substance) through a sieve so as to remove lumps or large particles.
Usage examples:
Sift the flour into a large bowl

noun
An act of sifting something, especially so as to isolate that which is most important.
Usage examples:
A careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris

noun
Move as if through a sieve

All meanings and translations of Sift

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