What's the difference between marksmanship and sharpshooting?
Marksmanship
Definition:
(n.) Skill of a marksman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compared to pre-march values, post-march marksmanship accuracy decreased 26% for number of target hits and 33% for distance from the centroid of the target.
(2) Because of the precision of his marksmanship, very little of his ruthless satire has dated: he is forever topical.
(3) 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.
(4) Exercise reduced marksmanship accuracy (p less than 0.05) but did not affect sighting time.
(5) These latter two types of agents may exhibit finer marksmanship than do diuretics in opposing the etiology of low-renin hypertension, for there is growing reason to believe that sodium-volume-mediated vasoconstriction is related to abnormal calcium influx and possibly to abnormal alpha-adrenergic traffic.
(6) Some elements of training could contribute to the abuses below, including employment of riot control techniques, platoon ambushes, building and street clearance, company attack and marksmanship skills.” Two of the arrested soldiers are awaiting sentencing after admitting their part in sexual assaults.
(7) Also, the interrelation of eyedness and handedness on marksmanship scores is important but has been largely ignored.
(8) But it is not just his trickery, his pace, his artistry and his marksmanship that make Hazard such an invaluable component of José Mourinho’s Chelsea squad, it is his durability.
(9) This research examined the effects of pure and crossed dextrality on the marksmanship scores of cadets in the Reserve Officers Training Corps at their respective institutions.
(10) The tests consisted of marksmanship (score for a 5-shot group), snowshoe running (time to cover 1700 m), anaerobic power (Wingate test), and performance on 5 cognitive tests (preferred hand tapping, 4-choice reaction time, pattern recognition, memory search, and code substitution; each test scored as % correct and # completed).
(11) The opportunities to show such marksmanship again were denied Joachim Löw's line-up.
(12) During summer advanced training camp, subjects fired M-16A1 rifles for marksmanship qualifying scores (score range 0 to 40).
(13) Exercise and acute altitude exposure had similar but independent detrimental effects on marksmanship.
(14) Acute altitude exposure reduced marksmanship accuracy, and decreased sighting time (p less than 0.05).
Sharpshooting
Definition:
(n.) A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was afraid they might retaliate," she said, saying she feared for herself and her family after looking up secret service on the internet and seeing that some agents were sharpshooters.
(2) If this were an arms race, the sharpshooting drone would make toast of the rusty Jamaican six-shooter.
(3) If it wasn't for bad luck.. ") Meanwhile the Los Angeles Clippers will have to live without long distance sharpshooter J.J. Redick for 6-8 weeks after an MRI revealed a fracture in his right hand .
(4) "They are prepared to take the risk and they are getting sharpshooters and snipers in as part of an effort to take the British on.
(5) SERGEANT, ANONYMOUS Paratrooper, 2002, Nablus We took over a central house, set up positions, and one of the sharpshooters identified a man on a roof, two roofs away, I think he was between 50 and 70 metres away, not armed.
(6) Knight graduated from being her father’s sharpshooter dummy (he allegedly shot her twice when they were performing) to a circus stuntwoman, bareback horse-rider and pistol-spinning markswoman.
(7) a sharpshooter"; the novel "wears its wisdom with a shrug".
(8) Roads will be closed off and hundreds of sharpshooters placed on the rooftops.
(9) On Friday, as European justice ministers gathered in the country that currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, there were sharpshooters on the roofs, sniffer dogs roaming the streets and more than 2,000 riot police outside government offices and hotels.
(10) Since the Turkish government tore up a two-year truce with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) in July, it has deployed a new weapon in the towns and villages of the south-east: sharpshooters.
(11) In 1943 he was drafted into the US Army Air Corps, where he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets.
(12) Handsome sharpshooting marksmen track the pirates through the windows of their lifeboat.
(13) By the time it was over, in September 1992, a US Marshal and Weaver’s 14-year-old son had died in a shootout and an FBI sharpshooter had killed Weaver’s wife while she cradled a 14-month-old baby in her arms.