Reticle.
crosshair
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for crosshair.
Editorial note
Cmd-Shift-4 + Space: gives you the crosshair, and pressing space allows you to select individual windows to screenshot.
Quick take
Reticle.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of crosshair gathered in one view.
To focus on within a reticle.
(by extension) To target.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for crosshair.
noun
Reticle.
verb
To focus on within a reticle.
verb
(by extension) To target.
Example sentences
Cmd-Shift-4 + Space: gives you the crosshair, and pressing space allows you to select individual windows to screenshot.
For example, in Left 4 Dead, why not just use the white crosshair with black background all the time?
Do you have a crosshair that's always exactly in the center of the field of view?
How does one switch between navigating the left-side menu and using the crosshair to look around?
Current systems either take the entire scene into account (bad) or weigh things towards the crosshair (a bit better) which might not be where the user is actually trying to look.
And if you focus on the crosshair, you'll see everything else in double vision.
Weird mouse acceleration when it is over canvas and is replaced by crosshair icon.
Do you motion track the dummy rifle and use that you position a crosshair that can move around in the field of view?
Cmd-Shift-4: gives you a crosshair to select a portion of the screen.
I just feel that one day I could be in the crosshair, and get my name trashed in the news for weeks.
(Windows 8 knows when the pen is hovering over the screen and treats it like a mouse, so you get a crosshair cursor near the tip the pen.
My feature request: this badly needs a vertical crosshair for the multi-line charts, to see what are all the values at that point on the x-axis at once.
Quote examples
* The "Path" tool's crosshair is offset from where the path is actually drawn, which is incredibly annoying.
It could be in the header, using the same iconography as map apps do for "find my current location": crosshair & circle [1].
"game where you have a crosshair and hit people" is Prohibition.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use crosshair in a sentence?
Cmd-Shift-4 + Space: gives you the crosshair, and pressing space allows you to select individual windows to screenshot.
What does crosshair mean?
Reticle.
What part of speech is crosshair?
crosshair is commonly used as noun, verb.