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SHOOTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of firing a projectile
Example:
his shooting was slow but accurate
Synonyms:
shooting; shot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shooting" is a kind of...):
actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)
Meronyms (parts of "shooting"):
fire control (preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shooting"):
shoot (the act of shooting at targets)
countershot (a return shot; a retaliatory shot)
discharge; firing; firing off (the act of discharging a gun)
gunfire; gunshot (the act of shooting a gun)
headshot (a shot aimed at a person's head)
shellfire (shooting artillery shells)
potshot (a shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter))
Derivation:
shoot (fire a shot)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Killing someone by gunfire
Example:
when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shooting" is a kind of...):
homicide (the killing of a human being by another human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shooting"):
drive-by killing (homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile)
drive-by shooting (shooting someone from a car as it is driven past the victim)
wing shooting (shooting game birds that are flying (on the wing))
Derivation:
shoot (kill by firing a missile)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shoot
Context examples:
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Check Yes or No if the adjective applies to your pain; shooting.
(BPI - Shooting, NCI Thesaurus)
Recently scientists have shown that astrocytes may communicate like neurons by shooting off, or releasing, chemical messages, called transmitters, to neighboring cells.
(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)
I leapt over the tree because the huntsmen are shooting down there in the thicket.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But he had guns, plenty of ammunition, and those Kanakas, trained to the shooting of wild cattle and wild pig, were dead shots.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I complied, in a very uncomfortable state, and with a warm shooting all over me, as if my apprehensions were breaking out into buds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a flyaway look to her clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Still, she allowed, "the owd maister was like other folk—naught mich out o' t' common way: stark mad o' shooting, and farming, and sich like."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I remember the first time I became capable of observing outward objects with any kind of pleasure, I perceived that the fallen leaves had disappeared and that the young buds were shooting forth from the trees that shaded my window.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He whipped up the mares, and now from the curve of the road we could see the high dark pinnacles of the old Manor-house shooting up above the ancient oaks which ring it round.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One morning, about this time Charles Musgrove and Captain Wentworth being gone a-shooting together, as the sisters in the Cottage were sitting quietly at work, they were visited at the window by the sisters from the Mansion-house.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
