different between fighting vs shooting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?t??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English feghtyng, fy?tynge, fightand, feghtand, feghtande, feightand, fe?tand, vi?tinde, feihtende, from Old English feohtende, from Proto-Germanic *fehtandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *fehtan? (“to comb, struggle, contend with”), equivalent to fight +? -ing.

Adjective

fighting

1. Engaged in war or other conflict.
2. Apt to provoke a fight.
   • 1925 April 11, "Books", in The New Yorker, page 26:

     It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.

   • 1947, Hold That Lion! (film):

     Them's fighting words in my country!

   • 2003, Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ?ISBN, page xi:

     Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

Translations

Verb

fighting

1. present participle of fight

Derived terms

• fighting chance

Etymology 2

From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fi?tinge, fe?tyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight +? -ing.

Noun

fighting (countable and uncountable, plural fightings)

1. The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
2. A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight

Derived terms

• fighting fit
• fighting words

Descendants

• Korean: ??? (hwaiting)

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean ??? (hwaiting) or ??? (paiting), from English fighting.

Pronunciation

Interjection

fighting

1. (slang) go for it (to put maximum effort into achieving something)

   • ??????????????????????fighting? [MSC, trad.]
     ??????????????????????fighting? [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2016, ?????????? ???????, ????

     Fùzh?ng liù nián, tàolù m?nm?n, y?dìng dài zhe x?xùn huílái! Fùzh?ngrén fighting! [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • ???????????????????????????fighting? [MSC, trad.]
     ???????????????????????????fighting? [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2016, ????????? ?????????, ????

     Yùndònghuì sh? zh?nggè rén j?ngshén q?lái! Zhèngzài ch?ng xiàng m?ji?xiàn b?obaomen de hángliè zh?ng! Fighting! [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

   • ??fighting? [MSC, trad.]
     ??fighting? [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2018, ?????????? ????“????”, ????

     Dà Qiáo fighting! [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this example)

Usage notes

This expression doesn't mean "fighting", but an encouragement.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?t??/
• Rhymes: -u?t??
• 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.

   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.

   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

Anagrams

• hootings, soothing

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.ti?/

Noun

shooting m (plural shootings)

1. shoot, shooting (all senses)