Definitions for Shooting
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shooting, shotnoun

   the act of firing a projectile

   "his shooting was slow but accurate"

2. shootingnoun

   killing someone by gunfire

   "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"

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1. shootingnoun

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

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

2. shootingnoun

   The sport or activity of firing a gun.

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1. Shooting

   Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can be considered acts of shooting. When using a firearm, the act of shooting is often called firing as it involves initiating a combustion (deflagration) of chemical propellants. Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field, in shooting sports, hunting, or in combat. The person involved in the shooting activity is called a shooter. A skilled, accurate shooter is a marksman or sharpshooter, and a person's level of shooting proficiency is referred to as their marksmanship.

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1. shooting

   Shooting generally refers to the act of discharging a firearm, bow and arrow, or other projectile-based weapon with the intention of hitting a specific target. It may involve the use of various firearms such as rifles, handguns, shotguns, or even more specialized weapons like cannons or rocket launchers. Shooting can be conducted for recreational purposes, sports competitions, hunting, self-defense, or military operations.

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1. Shooting

   of Shoot

2. Shootingnoun

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

3. Shootingnoun

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

4. Shootingnoun

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

5. Shootingadjective

   of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting

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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.

Matched Categories

1. • Homicide

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

Anagrams for Shooting »

1. soothing

2. hootings

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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. Dean Sheremet:

   There was this bar that everyone hung out at after set and I remember coming down the stairs and seeing the two of them shooting pool together, i could just tell by the body language thateverythinghad changed. She's shooting pool, shooting tequila, in a tight tank, tight jeans, over the knee boots and she's standing across from him, playing with the pool cue...All of a sudden, there was a huge shift. My stomach dropped. I literally felt like I got hit.

2. Daniel Munoz:

   As a percentage of homicides, these mass killings are also accounting for more deaths. He believes its partially a byproduct of an angry and frustrated time that we are living in. Densley also said crime tends to go in waves with the 1970s and 1980s seeing a number of serial killers, the 1990s marked by school shootings and child abductions and the early 2000s dominated by concerns over terrorism. This seems to be the age of mass shootings, Densley said. EL PASO SHOOTING LEAVES 20 DEAD, 26 INJURED He and James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, also expressed worries about the contagion effect, the focus on mass killings fueling other mass killings. These are still rare events. Clearly the risk is low but the fear is high, Fox said. What fuels contagion is fear. The mass shootings this year include the three in August in Texasand Daytonthat stirred fresh urgency,especially among Democratic presidential candidates, to restrict access to firearms. While the large death tolls attracted much of the attention, the killings inflicted a mental and physical toll on dozens of others. The database does not have a complete count of victims who were wounded, but among the three mass shootings in August alone, more than 65 people were injured. DAYTON, OHIO, SHOOTING THAT LEFT 9 DEAD, 27 HURT HALTED IN UNDER A MINUTE BY COPS WHO SHOT SUSPECT: MAYOR Daniel Munoz, 28, of Odessa, was caught in the crossfire ofthe shooting that took place between a 10-mile stretch in West Texas. He was on his way to meet a friend at a bar when he saw a gunman and the barrel of a firearm. Instinctively, he got down just as his car was sprayed with bullets. Munoz, who moved to Texas about a year ago to work in the oil industry, said he had actually been on edge since the Walmart shooting, which took place just 28 days earlier and about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away, worried that a shooting could happen anywhere at any time. He remembers calling his motherafter the El Paso shootingto encourage her to have a firearm at home or with her in case she needed to defend herself. He would say the same to friends, telling them before they went to a Walmart to bring a firearm in case they needed to protect themselves or others during an attack. BEFORE MASS SHOOTING, TEXAS GUNMAN WAS ON A LONG SPIRAL DOWN, INVESTIGATOR SAYS You cant just always assume youre safe. In that moment, as soon as the El Paso shooting happened, I was on edge.

3. James Brady:

   For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

4. Thomas Jefferson:

   Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

5. Jesse Kremer:

   If there's a shooting on the campus, I think you want more guns on the campus — because you want more bullets flying to actually stop whoever it is that has started that shooting.

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