PISTOL SHOT

  

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PISTOL SHOT

Definition: PISTOL SHOT

PISTOL SHOT

1. (a) The discharge of a pistol. (b) The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: PISTOL SHOT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nearness

Short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PISTOL SHOT

English words defined with "PISTOL SHOT": Pistolade. (references)

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Modern Usage: PISTOL SHOT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Pistol Shot (1968)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: PISTOL SHOT

Expression using "PISTOL SHOT": within a pistol shot. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PISTOL SHOT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pistol shot single

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PISTOL SHOT

Language Translations for "PISTOL SHOT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏طلقة مسدس. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пистолетен изстрел. (various references)

   

French

  

coup de pistole. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pisztolylövés. (various references)

   

Manx

  

orraghey pistol. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

istolpay otshay

   

Romanian

  

foc de pistol. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пистолетный выстрел (pistol-shot). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pucanj iz pištolja. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tiro de pistola. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

atış (beat, burst, chuck, firing, fling, gunshot, inning, innings, projection, put, shoot, shooting, shot, shy, throw). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: PISTOL SHOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-i-l-o-o-p-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: hotspots, otoliths, poloists, potshots, topsoils.

-3 letters: holists, hotspot, ooliths, otolith, pistols, poloist, potshot, soloist, sophist, sottish, spilths, spotlit, topsoil, tosspot.

-4 letters: hoists, holist, lithos, lottos, oolith, photos, pilots, pistol, polios, polish, posits, pottos, ptosis, shools, shoots, shotts, sloops, sloths, sooths, sotols, spilth, splits, splosh, spoils, spoilt, spools, stilts, stools, stoops, thiols, tholoi, tholos.

 Words containing the letters "h-i-l-o-o-p-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: pathologists, posthospital.

 

+3 letters: phlebotomists.

 

+4 letters: herpetologists.

 

+5 letters: anthropologists, photobiologists, photogeologists, thromboplastins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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