Definitions for shooting
shoot·ing

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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

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. 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

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.

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

How to pronounce shooting?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Mercer County:

   The shooting appears to be related to several neighborhood gangs from here in the city of Trenton having a dispute at the venue.

2. Charles Ramsey:

   In my opinion, tragic as it was, the shooting was reasonable.

3. Huang Qifan:

   The pandemic has exposed weak links in the old globalization model... China and other countries must rethink and readjust global industrial layout, however, the adjustment is not a total negation of globalization... such a move would be shooting ones own foot. The right approach is to open further, instead of taking a 180-degree turn.

4. Mahmoud Hanafi:

   This is the first time in my life I hear of a policeman shooting a driver for not having a license, he is a human being. He's driving a microbus, he wants to work ... We are not in a war. Why?

5. Osama Shabana:

   The authorities have to find a way to protect us, we are afraid of both sides - the security forces and the terrorists. When we hear shooting, we hide at home.

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