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Meanings of dead reckoning in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shot"
Examples for "shot"
1
A year ago, I thought it was possible but a long shot.
2
The shot was Dallas' second since the start of the second period.
3
Barque and Biquet were shot in the belly; Eudore in the throat.
4
He has shot dead at least 12 victims so far, police say.
5
Malala was shot three times at point blank range two years ago.
1
Imagine coming home from work and your partner saying, 'Honey, guess what?
2
The result is easy to guess: less lending and falling housing prices.
3
He promised we'd have 'a talk' tomorrow, which is today, I guess.
4
You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess.
5
But let me guess-youdon't want to talk about that either, right?
1
That time of year and with it that great guessing game again.
2
Conducting an investigation is hard enough without outsiders second-guessing my case work.
3
Went right into the freezer, I'm guessing, or home with the help.
4
Hanna was guessing, of course, but Thandi thought the guess made sense.
5
Raters achieved significant accuracy by guessing that second movers exhibited reciprocal behaviour.
1
All guesswork, that, but she didn't think she was too far wrong.
2
Before the pair met, it was often guesswork as to his intentions.
3
If he could anticipate her guesswork, then he might yet find her.
4
With me there are just uneven charts and guesswork with code names.
5
There is no shadow of doubt about this, nor is it guesswork.
Usage of dead reckoning in English
1
Now I shall chart my position and prove it by dead reckoning.
2
It's a kind of dead reckoning yeh hevn't had call to make.
3
Several times' he nearly got lost, and had to go by dead reckoning.
4
On December 9 observations and dead reckoning agreed within a mile.
5
According to dead reckoning our latitude that evening was 86º S.
6
According to dead reckoning our latitude that evening was 86° S.
7
But these are stormy waters, and we go by dead reckoning.
8
I haven't but a small notion where we are, going by dead reckoning.
9
Too often, the technique of dead reckoning marked him for a dead man.
10
By dead reckoning I made the Sobat junction 684 miles by river from Khartoum.
11
By dead reckoning we had marched 246 miles from Berber.
12
Our dead reckoning had heretofore always given the same results as our astronomical observations.
13
Also, navigating by dead reckoning requires long study and practice.
14
And dead reckoning requires expensive, power-hungry inertial measurement units.
15
Wrong as our dead reckoning evidently was, it could not be so wrong as that.
16
Mr Sudberry said this heartily, and went off to the baker's-bydead reckoning-discomfitedbut chuckling.
This collocation consists of:
Dead reckoning through the time
Dead reckoning across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common