What's the difference between arrow and crossbow?

Arrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
  • (2) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
  • (3) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
  • (4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
  • (5) An arrow poison prepared by traditional methods from Acokanthera schimperi in the Maasai plains of Kenya was shown to contain acolongifloroside K as its major active principle, as well as smaller amounts of ouabain and acovenoside A.
  • (6) Added meaning was given to the design copy task through the use of stimulus figures that were representational of familiar objects--an arrow, a house, and a face.
  • (7) In Experiment 1, arrow cues were located centrally, near the fixation point.
  • (8) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
  • (9) Six edentulous patients were each provided with two complete dentures and the relation of the jaws to each other was determined by means of both the conventional checkbite and a combined Gerber arrow-angle registration.
  • (10) Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow.
  • (11) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
  • (12) Here, then, is Draghinomics' second arrow: to reduce the drag on growth from fiscal consolidation while maintaining lower deficits and greater debt sustainability.
  • (13) To help distinguish between these competing interpretations, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded to lateralized flashes delivered to visual field locations precued by a central arrow (valid stimuli) or not precued (invalid stimuli).
  • (14) Of these devices, the most widely used external central venous catheters include: the Davol (Hickman, Broviac, Leonard catheters, Arrow-Howes multi-lumen catheters, and the Groshong that requires no heparinization.
  • (15) This study examined the relationships between postural sway, aiming time, the cardiac cycle time and the placement of the first finger movement within the electrocardiac cycle, with the quality of the arrow shot.
  • (16) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
  • (17) With an exquisite “no look” pass, Fuchs delivered the ball Vardy arrowed beyond David de Gea to score for the 11th successive Premier League match .
  • (18) Two commercially available immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (MAB) reagents (Bartels, Baxter Healthcare, Issaquah, WA; and Symex, Broken Arrow, OK) were evaluated as a means for detecting parainfluenza virus (PIV) both in shell-vial cultures and directly in clinical specimens.
  • (19) In the color condition the respective stimuli were a pair of solid red circles, four white paired-arrows, and a pair of white plus and minus signs.
  • (20) The design of the tube was the only factor found to be a significant determinant of the extrusion of the tube, although the experience of the surgeon affected the extrusion rate of the Arrow tube.

Crossbow


Definition:

  • (n.) A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Officers searched his bedsit and found a .22 pistol, 244 rounds of ammunition, two knives, a crossbow and six crossbow bolts.
  • (2) A non-fatal penetrating injury involving the brain stem is described from a crossbow bolt.
  • (3) But should researchers require actual tissue from the animal, they can use a hollow needle fired from a crossbow.
  • (4) A fully-grown, captive-bred lion is taken from its pen to an enclosed area where it wanders listlessly for some hours before being shot dead by a man with a shotgun, hand-gun or even a crossbow, standing safely on the back of a truck.
  • (5) Fire cable-loaded crossbow (all embassies have these; ask at reception) across the street to Harrod's roof.
  • (6) In Los Angeles County, two crossbow homicides have occurred in the past 20 years.
  • (7) The fact that Dr Palmer’s weapon of choice was some high-tech crossbow seems to amplify the creepy, primal connection that he sought with the suffering of his prey.
  • (8) Captive-bred lions are put into enclosures where tourists pay thousands of dollars for the dubious privilege of shooting them with guns or crossbows.
  • (9) At one point, shortly after leaving Foxcatcher, he fantasised about killing du Pont with a crossbow.
  • (10) Used by Edward I as a crossbow bolt factory, it was a debtors’ prison before being turned into a hostel in 1948 and beautifully refurbished in 2015.
  • (11) A patient survived thoracoabdominal penetrating injury with impalement of the descending thoracic aorta from a crossbow bolt.
  • (12) The event is known to fans as "the Red Wedding" because – well, Robb's wife was knifed in the belly, his mother had her throat slit, and Robb was riddled with crossbow shafts.
  • (13) Following the second case, a crossbow was test-fired into a fresh pork thigh, resulting in distinctive wounds.
  • (14) We report an unusual case of a 19-year-old man who suffered transoral penetration of the cervical spine by an arrow released by a crossbow at close range.
  • (15) Hunters Knives and Swords advertised a range of the horror film-inspired blades including swords, machetes and a £39.99 “crossbow pistol”.
  • (16) The final stage of the demo gives you a crossbow, which immediately had me shutting one eye to aim down the iron sights.
  • (17) In its conference edition of Crossbow magazine entitled "Party Shrugged: How the Conservative Party lost its base", several leading members of the Conservative Party including David Davis, Sir Edward Leigh, Toby Young and Paul Goodman, have come together to call for urgent action to avert the crisis of a rapidly decreasing membership and voter base.
  • (18) The crossbow is an uncommon source of fatal injury.
  • (19) The show, called Fort Apache, opened with Iglesias astride a Harley Davidson Sportster motorbike, placing a helmet over his head and – after a close-up of his eyes – slinging a massive crossbow across his back before roaring off.
  • (20) Not only is it incomprehensible to me that anyone would want to kill an endangered animal (fewer than 20,000 wild lions in Africa today) but to lure Cecil from the safety of a national park and then to shoot him with a crossbow...?