What's the difference between marksman and marksmen?
Marksman
Definition:
(n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
(n.) One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(2) A former Navy Seal who went on to write a bestselling book chronicling his life as the US's most prolific marksman has been shot dead at a gun range in Texas .
(3) He added: "If you are familiar with a holographic sight, it's built up in such a way that you could have given it to your grandmother and she would have been a super marksman.
(4) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
(5) Duggan’s death on 4 August 2011 at the hands of a police marksman triggered riots across the capital in which shops were looted, buildings set alight and standoffs with police occurred.
(6) Another player hoping to head to Germany to revive a career is Tottenham’s anti-marksman Roberto Soldado who is hoping the goals in the Bundesliga are a foot wider and are hung 20 foot up in the air so he might find them more often.
(7) For him, it was Ian Wright, and he still seems a little starry-eyed when he recounts how he signed for West Ham at the age of 16, and Wright took the time to stay behind after training to practise drills with him, and pass on tips designed to hone a marksman's eye and develop his cunning.
(8) "I didn't want to personalise [the tragedy] and blame the marksman.
(9) On Sunday, exactly a month later, both arrived together at the the Zeinhom morgue – but this time Fahmy was dead in a battered brown coffin, shot through his right temple by a police marksman, after a night-time pro-Morsi march on Saturday morning turned into a massacre.
(10) They also said the marksman’s mistaken belief that Duggan had a gun should have meant the jury were told not to conclude the killing was lawful unless they also concluded the mistake was reasonable.
(11) Shooting a suspect in the arm or the leg would be difficult for John Wayne, never mind the most skilled marksman on the force, said Candace McCoy , a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
(12) But Liverpool, sharper in all facets than of late and showing the obvious benefit of a proven marksman in their ranks, held firm to release some of the pressure on Rodgers.
(13) Duggan was shot by a Scotland Yard marksman after armed officers stopped the taxi in which he was travelling in Tottenham, north London, in August 2011, sparking riots across England.
(14) The marksman was granted anonymity because of fears of reprisals and was known at inquest into the death only as V53.
(15) In January, an inquest jury decided Duggan was not holding a gun when shot by police but also found the decision by marksman "V53" to open fire was lawful.
(16) Some sources suggested it was a Basij volunteer on a motorcycle, while others have attributed it to a marksman on the roof of a nearby house.
(17) A jury at the inquest into the 29-year-old's death found he had been killed lawfully by a police marksman, despite also finding that he was not carrying a gun when he was shot.
(18) When they were on the pavement, a police marksman immediately jumped out from behind the bus.
(19) An inquest jury this month found he was lawfully killed by a police marksman despite being unarmed when he was shot.
(20) If Agüero appeared every inch the expert marksman as he toe-poked Navas’s deflected left-wing cross into the roof of the net from close range, Billy Jones looked a thoroughly wrong-footed right back.
Marksmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Marksman
Example Sentences:
(1) The jury concluded Duggan had tossed the gun away and was not holding a weapon when surrounded by police marksmen.
(2) The mean difference between the two groups was significant, suggesting that pure dextrals are better marksmen than crossed dextrals early in training.
(3) The former environment secretary Owen Paterson said the "badgers moved the goalposts" when asked why marksmen failed to reach the cull target.
(4) Opposition groups said on Tuesday that the marksmen may be finding it harder than they expected to shoot the animals, which are by nature nervous and elusive.
(5) The effects of exercise and high altitude (3,700 m to 4,300 m) on marksmanship accuracy and sighting time were quantified in 16 experienced marksmen.
(6) Marksmen regularly picked off civilians trying to cross between government and rebel-held areas earlier in the war, and there are reports they have already tried to target people crossing now, Sahloul said.
(7) The government has refused to deny that less than 100 badgers have been killed in Somerset over two weeks, a figure that would mean marksmen had culled less than 5% of the badgers they must shoot in six weeks for the cull to be judged a success.
(8) I've visited for five days and long nights in the last two months and the marksmen won't talk about it, the farmers won't talk about it, and when you ask local people, anyone who supports it behaves with the kind of bashfulness last seen in the late 1990s, when it was shameful to publicly admit to voting Conservative.
(9) The Greek capital resembled Fort Knox – with riot police guarding her every move, helicopters roaring overhead and marksmen installed on the rooftops of buildings great and small – but Europe's most powerful woman was having none of it.
(10) Relatives and campaigners in the case of Menezes – a Brazilian shot dead by police marksmen at Stockwell tube station in 2005 – now fear they may also have been targeted by the investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
(11) This is supposedly a pilot cull but we do not have any information about how many badgers have been killed so far, how many have been injured, how the marksmen are ensuring clean kills, who is checking the badger body bags, how fiddling the figures or fraud will be prevented, whether there have been incidences of "unofficial" culling, and many other important details.
(12) He could tell from the precise nature of their injuries that the dead had been killed by trained marksmen.
(13) Sir Alex Ferguson’s 1999 and 2008 Champions League winning teams each had a quartet of marksmen.
(14) Care for the Wild also claimed that only two independent monitors would be on the ground in the cull zones to check whether shooting was being done humanely, and that Defra was planning to follow up with phone calls to marksmen to assess the pilots.
(15) Behind white sandbags close to a yellow and white theatre, at least two police marksmen aimed rifles with telescopic sights and opened fire.
(16) The note goes on to reveal that another training course had been run for shooting contractors to get more marksmen and women on the ground.
(17) The slits in the walls which used to allow archers to launch their arrows at attackers are now used by Syrian government marksmen with sophisticated sniper rifles, safely taking aim at targets in the streets beneath them.
(18) Marksmen were unable to kill the minimum number of animals required and an independent expert panel (IEP) appointed by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs concluded the culls were neither effective nor humane .
(19) It warned that if they escaped there would be nothing to stop them roaming free, and marksmen with tranquilliser darts would have little time to react.
(20) Oral application of elevated dosages of vitamin B1, B6 and B12 have been found to improve target shooting in marksmen, recruited from a local pentathlon association, in two different studies.