| 单词 | point-blank range |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoint-blank range a. Designating the range within which a projectile fired horizontally from a gun, cannon, etc., will hit a target directly on the line sighted along. Also (more generally): designating a very short range (now the usual sense). Now chiefly in point-blank range. Also in extended use.The trajectory of a projectile fired horizontally under gravity is not a straight line, but if it is fired with sufficient speed, then within a certain distance the amount by which it drops below the horizontal may be negligible. Alternatively, a gun's sights may be set slightly out of line with its bore in order to compensate for the effect of gravity over this particular distance (see quot. 1804). ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [adjective] > given direction towards a mark > aimed straight at mark point-blank1591 straight1833 society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > gaining points > manner point-blank range1591 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > range of gun or shot > point-blank range point-blank?a1560 point-blank range1591 point-shot1747 1591 T. Digges L. Digges's Geom. Pract. Treatize: Pantometria (rev. ed.) 179 The first parte of the violent course of Gunners, commonly termed the peeces pointe blanke reache. 1627 Taking of St. Esprit in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 551 Some ships of our fleet..have bestowed divers shot on the French, though without point-blank distance. 1748 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) ii. 89 They were..within point blank shot of the enemy. 1786 T. P. Christian Mil. Refl. 53 The undulation of the water renders the direction of her shot very uncertain, whilst the point blank range of a battery is always the same. 1804 European Mag. 45 327/2 It is generally thought that the ball goes out of the piece in a straight line to a certain distance, which they call the point-blank shot. This is a mistake; for the ball immediately falls from the axis of the gun, the tangent of the curve described, though but insensibly for a short time; but the line in which gunners take sight is usually contrived to make a small angle with the axis, so that..the ball will rise above the line of sights, and then, by the force of gravity, be made to fall again into it, at the place called the point-blank shot. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 274 An unexpected obstacle within point-blank Musket-shot of the place attacked. 1877 W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier v. 109 The Indians meanwhile made for an isolated rock on the southern hillside, and having reached it, opened fire upon the scouts at point blank range. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 193 Rifle shots delivered at point-blank range. 1977 Washington Post 10 Jan. d2/4 Chicago goalie..stopped Peter McNab from point-blank range. 2002 R. Cohen By Sword i. i. 20 Armor increased in thickness, and it became common to ‘proof’ a breastplate by firing a shot against it at point-blank range. < as lemmas |
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