point-blank

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
2. sıfat The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.

   “Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.”

3. sıfat Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.

   “a point-blank assertion”

4. zarf In a direct manner, without hesitation.

   “One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; […]”