shooting

Plural: shootings

Noun

• The act of firing a weapon or taking a photograph.
• the act of firing a projectile
  • "his shooting was slow but accurate"
• killing someone by gunfire
  • "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"
• an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
• the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
• a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
• the act of one who, or that which, shoots
• a sensation of darting pain
• filming

Verb

• hit with a missile from a weapon
• kill by firing a missile
• fire a shot
• make a film or photograph of something
• send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
• run or move very quickly or hastily
• move quickly and violently
• throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
• record on photographic film
• emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
• cause a sharp and sudden pain in
• force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
• variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
• throw dice, as in a crap game
• spend frivolously and unwisely
• score
• utter fast and forcefully
• measure the altitude of by using a sextant
• produce buds, branches, or germinate
• give an injection to
• present participle and gerund of shoot

Adj

• Moving or growing quickly
• Of a pain, sudden and darting

Examples

• a shooting in one's head
• I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
• I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
• Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
• Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
• The SHOOTING for a high score was intense in the final rounds of the Scrabble tournament.
• the shooting of rays of light

Synonyms

blast, bourgeon, buck, burgeon forth, charge, dart, dash, dissipate, film, flash, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, germinate, hit, inject, photograph, pip, pullulate, scoot, scud, shoot, shoot down, shot, snap, sprout, spud, take, tear, darting, splitting

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