shooting

shooting

See also: Shooting

English

Etymology

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -uːtɪŋ
• Hyphenation: shoot‧ing

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 with a gun or other weapon.
   • 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:

     Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.

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

2. (uncountable) The sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon.
   • 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:

     Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.

   I take part in shooting at the local archery club.

3. A district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms.
4. The act of one who, or that which, shoots.

   the shooting of rays of light

5. A sensation of darting pain.

   a shooting in one's head

Derived terms

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

Translations

instance of shooting

Armenian: կրակ (hy) (krak) Belarusian: стральба́ f (stralʹbá), страляні́на f (straljanína) Bulgarian: стрелба́ (bg) f (strelbá) Catalan: tiroteig (ca) m, afusellament (ca) m Cebuano: pagpamusil Chinese: Mandarin: 射擊／射击 (zh) (shèjī) Czech: střelba (cs) f Danish: skudangreb Dutch: schietpartij (nl) f Esperanto: pafado Finnish: ampuminen (fi) French: tir (fr) m, fusillade (fr) f German: Schießen (de) n, Schießerei (de) f Hungarian: lövöldözés (hu) Icelandic: skotárás (is) f Ido: pafado (io) Italian: sparatoria (it) f Japanese: 射撃 (ja) (しゃげき, shageki) Karachay-Balkar: атыш (atış) Korean: 사격 (ko) (sagyeok), 발포 (ko) (balpo) Malay: please add this translation if you can Maori: puhanga Norman: tith'thie f Norwegian: Bokmål: skyteangrep Polish: strzelanie (pl) n, palba (pl) f Portuguese: tiroteio (pt) m Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá), пальба́ (ru) f (palʹbá), перестре́лка (ru) f (perestrélka) (between parties, multiple shots), шу́тинг (ru) m (šúting) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пуцање n Roman: pucanje n Slovak: streľba f Slovene: streljanje n, strel (sl) m Spanish: tiroteo (es) m Swahili: upigaji risasi Swedish: skjutning (sv) c, skottlossning (sv) c Tagalog: pamamaril Ukrainian: стрільба́ (uk) f (strilʹbá), стріляни́на f (striljanýna)

the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon

Arabic: رِمَايَة‎ (ar) f (rimāyah) Esperanto: pafado Finnish: ammunta (fi) Korean: 사격 (ko) (sagyeok) Norwegian: Bokmål: skyting m or f Nynorsk: skyting f Portuguese: tiro (pt) m Russian: стрельба́ (ru) f (strelʹbá) Spanish: tiro (es) m

Adjective

shooting

1. Moving or growing quickly.

   Shooting beams of light played over the sea.

2. Of a pain, sudden and darting.

   I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

Translations

Of sudden piercing pain

Finnish: pistävä (fi), terävä (fi), viiltävä (fi) Maori: tākirikiri

Anagrams

• hootings, soothing

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French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.tiŋ/

Noun

shooting m (plural shootings)

1. shoot, shooting (all senses)