telescopic sight
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- noun
- /tɛləˈskɑpɪk saɪt/
- Specialized
:
mira telescópica
- "Curt lovingly lifted the weapon to his shoulder and sighted through the telescopic sight.
- rifle with a telescopic sight
Examples
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We'll have a rifle on him, with a real fine sharpshooter behind it, with one of them fancy new telescopic sights.
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Most people can't bag a deer with a rifle and a telescopic sight.
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Now what kind of device has a telescopic sight mounted on it?
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Have you got three rifles with telescopic sights?
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And Mr. Lance has a rifle with a new telescopic sight.
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Their telescopic sights lock on Gillespie and Salt.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a telescopic sight.
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It has an offset, inexpensive telescopic sight.
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Snipers with .22 rifles and telescopic sights straddle the rooftops.
Fiction book (1995) -
The hunter adjusted his aim by looking through the telescopic sight of his rifle.
Synonyms
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6.6
An optical device like a telescope or rifle sight that makes distant things look closer
A small tube with lenses mounted on a gun to help aim at distant targets
A tube on a rifle that makes distant targets look closer to help you aim
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning 'an optical aiming device with a telescope' is directly derivable from combining 'telescopic' (relating to a telescope) with 'sight' (an optical aiming device). This straightforward adjective+noun composition follows regular English modifier patterns and has close parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Telescopic sight comes from the simple image of a sight (something that helps you aim) with a small telescope attached. Hunters and soldiers put a small telescope on a gun so they could see far away and 'aim' better, so today a telescopic sight means a sight that helps you hit 'distant targets'.