Definitions for Shooting
Shoot·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shooting, shot(noun)

   the act of firing a projectile

   "his shooting was slow but accurate"

2. shooting(noun)

   killing someone by gunfire

   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. shooting(Noun)

   An instance of shooting (a person) with a gun.

   Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.

2. shooting(Noun)

   The sport or activity of firing a gun.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Shooting

   of Shoot

2. Shooting(noun)

   the act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light

3. Shooting(noun)

   a wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting

4. Shooting(noun)

   a sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head

5. Shooting(adj)

   of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting

Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Shooting

   Shooting is the act or process of firing firearms or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets, and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman. Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports, or in combat.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Shooting' in Nouns Frequency: #2576

Anagrams for Shooting »

1. soothing

2. hootings

How to pronounce Shooting?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shooting in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shooting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Shooting in a Sentence

1. Joan Motolinia:

   I heard the shooting, she couldn't say too much, because she was afraid.

2. Melissa McCarthy:

   I think it's really fun. We worked really, really hard on the script. We're constantly changing it at the end of each night of shooting, we re-evaluate has anything changed today that may affect the work tomorrow, we improvise tiny little bits. I improvise a lot but it never strays away from that map.

3. Ben Carson:

   I mean a police officer you know shooting down a citizen of the United States -- really doesn't matter what the color of them is.

4. Anna Zafesova:

   He has dozens of young women and men perfectly capable of carrying on his investigative work. Maybe they are less charismatic than he, but they are proof that the Russian opposition is not only virtual and cannot be silenced with the poisoning of its leader. POISONED KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY OUT OF COMA AND RESPONSIVE: GERMAN HOSPITAL Navalnys spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh and fellow team member Georgi Alburov front the Tatarstan film, and said they were followed and harassed while shooting by men who blocked their paths with quad bikes or lurked nearby. Some dramatic images along those lines appear in the film.Yarmysh talks about how Tatarstan was supposed to be one of Navalnys stops on his late summer swing through Russian regions ahead of elections. Navalny was lobbying forSmart Voting. He argued that ifhe and people like him couldnt run in elections in Russia, the next best thing wasto simply vote for a candidate who is not from the same party as President Vladimir Putin, United Russia. Navalnyfamously called it the party of crooks and thieves and wantedto chip away at its monopoly on power howeverpossible.He believes Smart Voting can eventually dislodge it from power. GERMANY SUGGESTS HALT TO RUSSIA PIPELINE PROJECT, SEEKS COOPERATION WITH NAVALNY POISONING INVESTIGATION In the documentary from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, Navalnys team keeps up his stylistic pace with drone video of what itidentifiesas the palatial homes of the regional president and his family, punctuated withvideoof the vast collection of fancy watches from Patek Phillipe to Breguet worn byleaderRustam Minnikhanov. Even if you dont understand Russian, it is compelling TV, Zafesova said. Navalnys investigations have evolved over the years from merely facts and analysis on his blog to full-scale movies.He invented a whole new way to oppose power, a mix of media and politics which is very important in a censored media environment like Russia and fills the void of free media as well as free debate and an independent judicial system.Navalnys videos are funny, clever, precise and shocking, not just angry denunciations of the wrongdoings of government.

5. Eduard Basurin:

   There were no attempts by Ukrainian forces to break through. The surrounded Ukrainian forces were completely demoralized. They lost their direction. They began shooting at residential areas of Debaltseve.

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