Word Meanings - POINT-BLANK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile

Additional info about word: POINT-BLANK

1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POINT-BLANK)

• Rectilinear
• Straight
• undeviating
• right-lined
• point-blank

Related words: (words related to POINT-BLANK)

• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• RECTILINEARITY
  The quality or state of being rectilinear. Coleridge.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• STRAIGHT-PIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• RIGHT-LINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• STRAIGHT-LINED
  Having straight lines.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• STRAIGHTWAYS
  Straightway.
• STRAIGHTFORTH
  Straightway.
• STRAIGHTEN
  1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
• STRAIGHTHORN
  An orthoceras.
• STRAIGHT-SPOKEN
  Speaking with directness; plain-spoken. Lowell.
• POINT-BLANK
  1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile
• STRAIGHTEDGE
  A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
• STRAIGHTNESS
  The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.
• STRAIGHT
  A variant of Strait, a. Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. Sir J. Mandeville.
• RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.