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Vinony

shooting

noun

  1. kicking technique in association football
  2. kill with gun; Event where weapons are fired; firing a gun
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Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/

adj

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”).

  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.”

noun

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”).

  1. an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon

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

    “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.”

  2. the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon

    “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”

  6. filming

verb

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”).

  1. present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting