What's the difference between sharpshooter and shooter?
Sharpshooter
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
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.
Shooter
Definition:
(n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
(n.) That which shoots.
(n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter.
(n.) A shooting star.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(2) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
(3) In that time it has seen the Call of Duty brand catapulted from a modestly successful cinematic shooter to the biggest entertainment property in the world.
(4) JoyJoy was one of them: a twin-stick shooter with well-crafted controls, varied visuals and a well-tuned progression curve.
(5) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
(6) His avoidance of the circumlocutions favoured by most politicians led to a popular misconception that he is a straight shooter.
(7) According to the Orlando Weekly , a friend said that Velazquez was with two other friends at Pulse, where the dancer was pushed against a wall by the shooter, Omar Mateen.
(8) Ten competition shooters were tested during simulated race using the force platform technique to investigate the effect of training on postural stability.
(9) Shooters at stand must be instructed not to leave their stands until explicitly told to do so.
(10) Even though St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar erroneously said the shooter(s) were “embedded” with those chanting outside the Ferguson Police Department, the shots came from far away and could have easily struck anyone.
(11) As new information emerges from the FBI suggesting the husband and wife shooters were radicalised up to two years earlier and may have been plotting other attacks, Cruz argued that blanket surveillance had proven to be counter-productive in spotting potential Islamic extremists operating in the US.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Father of Dallas police shooter: ‘I love my son.
(13) The results revealed that expert biathletes seem to use a different strategy than expert rifle shooters, each of them adapting to the characteristics of their respective discipline.
(14) Highly skilled shooters were less anxious and performed better across all competitions than moderately skilled shooters but did not differ on self-control and anxiety trait.
(15) San Bernardino shooter's alleged Isis link: Obama's worst political nightmare Read more But the battle has been less marked by tangible signs of progress, as the militant group maintains its grip on northern Syria , Iraq and the Euphrates River Valley, and as foreign fighters continue to move to and from the battlefield unimpeded.
(16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
(17) That was not necessarily a disaster for a team with West Ham’s skill set, however, so well stocked are they with long-range shooters, and both Pedro Obiang and Noble duly hit the woodwork from distance before half-time.
(18) The four weapons used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to kill 12 students and a teacher at Columbine high school in April 1999 were bought by a friend of the shooters from unlicensed sellers at a gun show.
(19) It feels like a super slick co-op shooter, which is what it is.
(20) "It was only the poor preparation of the Ukrainian military and the timely evacuation of law enforcement officers under the cover of armoured transport vehicles that did not allow the shooters to realise their intention."