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shoot·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  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.

Webster Dictionary

  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

Wikidata

  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.

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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. Chuck Wexler:

    At end of day, what you have is an enormous number of guns on the street and you have a concern about how to prevent the next shooting or homicide, that's how police chiefs are thinking about this.

  2. Resident David Gray:

    A lot of hunters come in here and they enjoy theduck hunting and all, but to be upset over somebody shooting more ducks or whatever the case may have been, I don't know.

  3. Alanah Odoms Hebert:

    None of our communities are safe when Lafayette Police can murder people with impunity or when routine encounters escalate into deadly shooting sprees, the ACLU of Louisiana will continue to demand justice for this brutal killing and push for reforms that will end the epidemic of police violence once and for all.

  4. Anderson Sr.:

    The only way I found out wasjust two of his friends, justtwo friends that just happenedto be up there and they came andtold me, they werent even from Seattle. Now, mind you, I havent heard -- thepolice department, they nevercame... LATEST CHOP SHOOTING KILLS TEEN, CRITICALLY WOUNDS 14-YEAR-OLD.

  5. President Trump:

    Unfortunately I have to begin by expressing our sadness and heartbreak over the deadly shooting in Texas.

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