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 Translation for 'warning shot' from English to Romanian
NOUN   a warning shot | warning shots
arme
foc {n} de avertizare
warning shot
arme
foc {n} de avertisment
warning shot
Partial Matches
avertisment {n}warning
turism
atenționare {f} de călătorie
travel warning
lumină {f} de avertizarewarning light
turism
alertă {f} de călătorie
travel warning
film
filmat {adj} {past-p}
shot
sport
șut {n}
shot
sport
aruncarea {f} greutății
shot put
sport
aruncător {m} de greutate
shot-putter
inform.
captură {f} de ecran
screen shot
med.
injecție {f}
shot [injection]
sport
aruncare {f} liberă
foul shot [basketball]
foto.
fotografie {f} de grup
group shot [photo]
într-o clipită {adv} [fară ezitare]like a shot
sport
aruncătoare {f} de greutate
shot-putter [female]
foto.
poză {f} de grup
group shot [photo]
med.
vaccin {n} antitetanos
tetanus shot [coll.]
sport
șut {n} de la distanță
shot from distance
unverified a o căuta cu lumânareashot across the bow
med.
vaccin {n} antigripal
flu shot [esp. Am.] [coll.]
unverified
med.
a administra cuiva o injecție
to give sb. a shot [coll.] [injection]
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Usage Examples English
  • When the pirates' intended victim was within range, the Jolly Roger would be raised, often simultaneously with a warning shot.
  • A twenty-one year old insurance salesman and Air Force veteran named Henry Austin confronted the mob and fired a warning shot.
  • January 28, 2010 - Two assaults against officers at Kent Institution. A warning shot was fired.
  • He fires a warning shot into the interior, then joins the stricken yacht.
  • May 1976: A fight broke out between two Muslim groups. They armed themselves with baseball bats and chunks of wood. A warning shot was fired and the guards used tear gas to break the fight up.

  • Burton would later be blamed for his own death, by Governor Deneen, who suggested that Burton incensed the mob when he fired a warning shot, trying to protect his family and property.
  • In military and police contexts, a warning shot is an intentionally harmless artillery shot or gunshot with intent to enact direct compliance and order to a hostile perpetrator or enemy forces.
  • Rama fires a warning shot from his retreat in Suvela.
  • Gina takes his gun and fires a warning shot into the ceiling, which ricochets and accidentally kills Johnny.
  • In French nuclear doctrine it is called a "pre-strategic" weapon, the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons.

  • The customs house had two cannons and when the schooners attempted to run the customs port the agent fired a warning shot across the bow of each ship and then six more as an attempt to sink them.
  • Initially two British ships sought to halt the progress of the "Catalpa" and recapture the men, but after receiving a warning shot, Anthony raised the American flag.
  • In 1997 the house was broken into by a deranged fan. Garriott held him off with an Uzi, firing a warning shot while waiting for police to arrive.
  • At 08:20, "Atlantis" fired a warning shot across "Automedon" [...] s bow, and her radio officer at once began transmitting a distress call of "RRRR – Automedon – 0416N" ("RRRR" meant "under attack by armed raider").
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