| 单词 | random shot |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrandom shot random shot n. †(a) a shot fired at any range other than point-blank (see sense A. 2); (as a mass noun) this range (obsolete); (b) a shot fired without aim (also figurative). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot > type of shot hail-shot1569 random shot1598 long shot1767 snapshot1808 point-blanker1824 pot-shot1843 snap1851 hip shot1874 pop shot1880 sighter1897 pot1914 over1915 short1922 snipe1969 1598 R. Carew Herrings Tayle sig. D Some..random shot which wall would pearce, but cannot crase. 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 9 One of their random shotts killed lieutenant coll. Jackson. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4422/7 The nine Sail stood in fair with us near random Shot. 1786 R. Burns Poems 71 The star that rules my luckless lot..Has blest me with a random-shot O' countra wit. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. lxviii. 716 The first random shots were productive of more sound than effect. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 109 The..ship..had approached within random shot of the Leander. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 457 A random shot or the dagger of an assassin might in a moment leave the expedition without a head. 1870 L. Bishop Teuchsa Grongie 345 He falls by random shot from Ta-to-kee. 1901 Times 20 Sept. 9/1 What were the chances that a random shot or ray directed into space would hit a star? 2006 Africa News (Nexis) 9 Sept. The Joint Military Task Force..were alerted by the random shots on their way past the area. < as lemmas |
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