you mean magazine clip right , LOLClip and magazine.
While there may be a fine legal difference between the two, I think many people use them interchangably since they are used by various states for what appears to be the same thing, legal permission to carry a weapon concealed. For example, in AL we are issued a Pistol Permit, while in MA they are issued a Licence to Carry Firearm.license - permit
It seems to be common convention to use "pistol" only to refer to semiautomatic handguns, and exclude revolvers from the term. By the dictionary definition, however, pistol = handgun and would include both semiautos and revolvers.The relationship between pistol and revolver has been one. My take is that pistols and revolvers are both handguns but that revolvers are not pistols.
Machine Pistol originally referred not just to fully automatic "pistols" but to fully automatic weapons firing pistol-caliber cartridges (i.e. submachineguns)3 - Machine pistols (e.g., Glock 18, Beretta 93R)
That engine=thermal thing made me smile. Trebuchet anyone?
English sometimes just doesn't make any damn sense.It would not be any fun if English made sense all the time.
Now, wait a minute. " ... a chamber which is integral with the barrel such as a ... revolver ... ". How can any of the chambers of a revolver be "integral with" (i.e., part of) the barrel? Are they talking about a Gatling Gun?Take it at what ever you want but Wikipedia says:
"When distinguished as a subset of handguns, a pistol is a handgun with a chamber that is integral with the barrel, such as a pepperbox revolver—as opposed to a standard (single-barrel) revolver, wherein the chamber is separate from the barrel as a revolving cylinder.[1]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol
As an engineer I am familiar with the term "heat engine" which is a subset of engines.As several folks have so excellently pointed out, there are several definitions of an engine.
Also, there are several definitions of a motor.
But, if you re-read post #73, engines turning thermal energy into motion is stated as only ONE definition, not THE definition of an engine.
It would not be any fun if English made sense all the time.
And comb. And aplomb.English sometimes just doesn't make any damn sense.
I mean tomb and bomb should rhyme right.
Gallagher has an entire bit with these types of words in the English language. Or is it the American language?Quote:
Originally Posted by mavracer View Post
English sometimes just doesn't make any damn sense.
I mean tomb and bomb should rhyme right.
And comb. And aplomb.
In Alabama we drink Coke. It can be a Dr. Pepper Coke but it's still a coke
But a "Pepperbox" was hardly a typical revolver. Actually very much like a hand-held Gatling Gun.