Difference between Breech-loading and Gun

What is the difference between Breech-loading and Gun?

Breech-loading as an adjective is such that ammunition is loaded at the rear of the bore. while Gun as an adjective is to be very good or the best at something.[http://www.aussieslang.com/slang/australian-slang-g.asp?page=2]

Breech-loading

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Such that ammunition is loaded at the rear of the bore.

Gun

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.To speed something up.To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: To be very good or the best at something.[http://www.aussieslang.com/slang/australian-slang-g.asp?page=2]

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02.A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02.A very portable, short weapon, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing weapon; a handgun: a revolver, pistol, Derringer, zipgun, so forth.A less portable, long weapon; a bullet or projectile firing weapon; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun.Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun; or, a home-made firearm such as a potato gun.Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun.A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun.A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.Biceps.

Example sentence: Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

We hope you now know whether to use Breech-loading or Gun in your sentence.

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