单词 | gun-sight |
释义 | gun-sight (once / 1181932 pages) n WORD FAMILY gun-sight USAGE EXAMPLESA half-pull of the left trigger raises your gun-sight, but still lets you strafe around. The Guardian(Aug 18, 2011) For a fraction of a second his eye had wavered from the gun-sight, and the tiger, with a hoarse growl, rose in his catapult charge. Fraser, W. A., The Three Sapphires(2011) “That must be the sun on his gun-sight,” said Curtis, “and I reckon it’s time to prepare for war.” Kelly, Florence Finch, The Delafield Affair(2011) n a sight used for aiming a gun Syn|Hypo|Hyper gunsight battle sight, battlesight an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges open sightrear gunsight having an open notch instead of a peephole or telescope panoramic sightgunsight (a telescopic device for an artillery piece) that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle peep sightrear gunsight having an adjustable eyepiece with a small aperture through which the front sight and the target are aligned sight settingthe adjustment of a gunsight for elevation and windage on a particular range under favorable light conditions telescope sight, telescopic sightgunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight zerothe sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing sights an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument |
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