Dictionary definition: cross hairs

Article: In the cross hairs: riflescope reticles take many ...
Sports Afield;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... widow spiders. These nearly invisible cross hairs supported his famous Lee floating dots ... determined by leaving a space between the cross hairs equal to the desired diameter of the ... image. The problem with this is that cross hairs and other reticle components--posts ...

Article: War and drugs in the cross hairs ; At festival, ...
International Herald Tribune;  September 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 09-11-2009 War and drugs in the cross hairs ; At festival, tank gunners in Lebanon ... through the telescopic viewfinder and cross hairs of the gunner's sights, which move ... Every person who comes into focus in the cross hairs of the gunsight -- from an old Arab ...

Article: In the cross hairs: whether it's a cross hair, dot, ...
Sports Afield;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... nearly as bright as what we are used to today, and the plain cross hairs were actually situated in the upper left quadrant of the field ... spiders that produced the web that was used in making the cross hairs for their scopes. One can only imagine the concern in the ...

Article: Cyclists in cross hairs
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  June 30, 2009 ;     557 words ... ... The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-30-2009 Cyclists in cross hairs -- UCI to target, test several Tour riders By JAMEY KEATEN ... doping tests, and several of the 180 riders already are in the cross hairs even before the three-week showcase begins in Monaco. Focusing ...

Article: The Tax Man Goeth: Sound bytes; In the Cross Hairs: ...
U.S. News & World Report;  August 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... IRS. See The Tax Man Goeth, 8/19/02, p 20. In the Cross Hairs: Policy news It's an offer corporate executives will find ... Executives must swear their books are clean. See In the cross hairs, 8/19/02, p. 33 Apple's New Campaign: Advertisement ...

Dictionary definition: cross-hairs
A Dictionary of Earth Sciences;      227 words ...cross-hairs See CROSS-WIRES .

Article: CROSS-HAIRS
The Boston Globe;  November 19, 1990 ;     234 words ...Mary Babnick Brown, shown with a Norden bombsight from World War II, was honored last week at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. Her long golden hair was used to make the bombsight's cross-hairs. / AP PHOTO SIMONS;11/18 NKELLY;11/19,11:58 CAP63AM1