shooting

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• Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ

Verb

shooting

1. Present participle of shoot.

Derived terms

• crap shooting
• shooting script
• shooting star

Noun

shooting (usually uncountable; plural shootings)

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

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

2. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun.
3. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.

   the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light

4. A sensation of darting pain.

   a shooting in one's head

Derived terms

• shooting brake
• shooting gallery
• shooting iron
• shooting lodge
• shooting preserve
• shooting range
• shooting stick
• skeet shooting
• sure as shooting
• wing shooting

Translations

instance of shooting

• Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak)
• Catalan: tiroteig (ca) m, afusellament (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 射擊 (cmn), 射击 (cmn) (shèjī)

• Czech: střelba (cs) f
• Dutch: schietpartij (nl) f
• Esperanto: pafado (eo), pafado (eo)
• Finnish: ampuminen (fi)

• French: tir (fr) m, fusillade (fr) f
• German: Schießen (de) n, Schießerei (de) f
• Ido: pafado (io)
• Japanese: 射撃 (ja) (しゃげき, shageki)
• Jèrriais: tith'thie f
• Russian: стрельба (ru) (strel'bá) f, пальба (ru) (pal'bá) f, (between parties) перестрелка (ru) (perestrélka) f

the sport or activity of firing a gun

• Esperanto: pafado (eo)
• Finnish: ammunta (fi)

• Portuguese: tiro (pt) m
• Russian: стрельба (ru) (strel'bá) f

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