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Definition: FRONT SIGHT |
FRONT SIGHT1. (Firearms), the sight nearest the muzzle. |
Crosswords: FRONT SIGHT |
| English words defined with "FRONT SIGHT": Breech sight ♦ Globe sight ♦ line of sight ♦ Open sight ♦ peep sight ♦ To the fore. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FRONT SIGHT": FRONT-SIGHT ATTACHER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Woman broaching key seat in front sight carrier for rifle, Eddystone Rifle Plant, Eddystone, Pa., during World War I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
front sight | 18 |
canted fix front sight sks | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FRONT SIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | мушка (bead, dispart, foresight, muzzle-sight). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | jyväsin (bead). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | korn (bead, corn, corn schnapps, grain, granule, kernel, pip, seed, speck, stone). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 照星 (bead or front sight of a firearm). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうせい (a laugh, a minor success, bead or front sight of a firearm, calling together, commander, ego, firing, invitation, laughter, sound of a bell). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontfray ightsay tüfek arpacığı, arpacık (bead, foresight, sty, stye). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fortnights. | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-h-i-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fortnight. | |
-2 letters: frosting, frothing, shorting, shotting, tonights, trothing. | |
-3 letters: forints, frights, hornist, horsing, hosting, hotting, intorts, rotting, shoring, sorting, storing, thrifts, throngs, tonight, trigons, tritons. | |
-4 letters: fights, firths, forint, fortis, fright, friths, fritts, fronts, froths, girons, girths, gonifs, grifts, griots, grison, griths, groins, hosing, ingots, intort, intros, nights, nitros, norths, ogrish, rhinos, righto, rights. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-h-i-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: fortnightlies. | |
+4 letters: forthrightness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 52 4F 4E 54 53 49 47 48 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010100 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F R O N T   S I G H T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0052 004F 004E 0054 0053 0049 0047 0048 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)405249485425343414254 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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